Birger Odegaard

Striker - Tromso
28 Jul 2042
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744 Edition

The Tromso Herald

29 Oct 2040
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad29 Oct 2040

Adrian Evensen-Jensen breaks a bone — 52 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 52 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad29 Oct 2040

Dirk Baron: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Tromso have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match27 Oct 2040

No end in sight to Tromso's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Tromso has to find a result from somewhere.

Match27 Oct 2040

Tromso cannot find the net

4 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Squad29 Oct 2040

Tempers go at Tromso

Gaoussou Fofana 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.

Player ratings29 Oct 2040

Nobody could get near Alexander Thorsby

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

Back issues
741 Edition

The Tromso Herald

8 Oct 2040
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad8 Oct 2040

A knee injury of the worst kind for Mathias Tønnessen

20 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Tromso lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad8 Oct 2040

Adrian Evensen-Jensen breaks a bone — 73 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 73 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad8 Oct 2040

17 seasons of Jens Hjertø-Dahl

563 appearances across 17 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Tromso know what they have.

Squad8 Oct 2040

Stig Vandewinkel keeps the receipts

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

Match6 Oct 2040

A bad afternoon for Tromso against Stromsgodset

0‑1 to Stromsgodset, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Player ratings8 Oct 2040

Birger Odegaard ran the middle of the pitch — 6.56

He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 10 combined actions and a mark of 6.56, and not one of them will make a highlights package.

Boardroom8 Oct 2040

$2.0M on the table at Tromso

The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.

Player ratings8 Oct 2040

Omari Forson runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Boardroom8 Oct 2040

Tromso keep producing them

163 graduates from an academy now rated 11 out of 20. A club this size does not survive any other way, and every name on that list is known in the town.

In brief