Lars Berge

Central Defender - KFUM Oslo U18
27 Mar 2033
Sunday
Process

Marked for Lars Berge

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The KFUM Oslo Sentinel

12 Apr 2032
From our football correspondent Triumph

The dugout

Liam Selin keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” KFUM Oslo may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Player ratings

A brace, and Henrik Meister takes the afternoon — 8.70

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Henrik Meister provided it, and the 8.70 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Match

Nobody wants to play KFUM Oslo right now

4 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Squad

Harvey Gray gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Harvey Gray has just signed for KFUM Oslo, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

Tempers go at KFUM Oslo

Leandro Martins was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Boardroom

11 academy players handed senior numbers at KFUM Oslo

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Squad

Håkon Helland Hoseth falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Boardroom

Wages swallow 184% of the KFUM Oslo income

Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.

Match

Henrik Meister sends KFUM Oslo past Egersund

It finished 2‑0, and it was Henrik Meister’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to KFUM Oslo.

In brief