{"id":127741,"date":"2026-07-11T17:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T17:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/127741\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T17:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T17:33:09","slug":"fifa-world-cup-norway-on-edge-before-historic-quarter-final-against-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/127741\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifa World Cup: Norway on edge before historic quarter-final against England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Norway\u2019s national jerseys are sold out everywhere, beer sales are up by a third and Norwegians are scrambling for a place to watch the historic quarter-final against England.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The whole country is incredulous: no one expected the men\u2019s team to make it this far in the men\u2019s football World Cup. The result is a country united in euphoria around its team of Vikings.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThis is amazing, it\u2019s magic,\u201d football fan Tora Bell, 31, said in an interview in Oslo ahead of Saturday\u2019s nail-biter match. \u201cWe want to see it together with a crowd, to share this moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Bell has been sewing and decorating her own red, white and blue shirts to show support to the national team and said she was feeling a new pride and hope seeing the community and celebrations of the Norwegian players in the streets of Oslo.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWe are even hugging people we don\u2019t know,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Norway\u2019s Erling Haaland (middle) gets past two Brazilian players in his team\u2019s 2-1 win, in which the striker scored both goals. Photo: AP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/7851edd4-9bad-4ac7-be64-06b4da01ef9a_b34f173c.jpg\" title=\"Norway\u2019s Erling Haaland (middle) gets past two Brazilian players in his team\u2019s 2-1 win, in which the striker scored both goals. Photo: AP\"\/>Norway\u2019s Erling Haaland (middle) gets past two Brazilian players in his team\u2019s 2-1 win, in which the striker scored both goals. Photo: AP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The path to the quarter-final was lined with surprises. Norway had not qualified for the World Cup for 28 years, but went on to send home Brazil, a five-time World Cup champion, 2-1 last Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Norway\u2019s national jerseys are sold out everywhere, beer sales are up by a third and Norwegians are scrambling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[85],"tags":[417,184,62209,30038,30039,4245,157,62210,156,11898],"class_list":["post-127741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oslo","tag-crown-prince-haakon","tag-donald-trump","tag-erling-braut-haaland","tag-kylian-mbappe","tag-lionel-messi","tag-nobel-peace-prize","tag-norway","tag-orjan-nyland","tag-oslo","tag-world-cup-2026"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116902547200334866","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}