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Former Norway International Kjetil Rekdal on his country's continuous failure to qualify for a major tournament: "We are the HSV of Europe." (www.sueddeutsche.de)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I would argue Bosnia are a closer parallel than Norway are. Yes, both have consistently come close to qualifying for international tournaments for over a decade now, but as a Former Yugoslav territory Bosnia has the prior success that Hamburg has but Norway simply does not

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yugoslavia doesn't exist anymore, and its success was a joint effort of the states within it, so your parallel is a stretch at best. If we're using defunct multinational states, Norway was a part of the Kalmar Union with Denmark and Sweden too. And Denmark won the Euros in 92.

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