{"id":129997,"date":"2026-07-15T15:13:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T15:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/129997\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T15:13:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T15:13:20","slug":"norway-just-threw-the-greatest-celebration-ever-for-a-team-eliminated-in-the-world-cup-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/129997\/","title":{"rendered":"Norway just threw the greatest celebration ever for a team eliminated in the World Cup quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At every World Cup<\/a>, there are a few teams that become tournament darlings. This year it was the likes of Cape Verde, Scotland and Norway.<\/p>\n

Of those three, none made a deeper run than Norway. And while it came up short against England this past weekend, the team returned home like the boat-rowing (fine, technically sailing<\/a>) conquering heroes its ancestors once were.<\/p>\n

And, boy, did they ever get one hell of a parade.<\/p>\n

GERMAN WORLD CUP FAN BREAKS DOWN IN TEARS AFTER BEING BLOWN AWAY BY KINDNESS OF AMERICANS<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Norwegian <\/p>\n

If this what the party looked like after getting knocked out in the World Cup quarterfinals, just imagine if they had gone all the way. (Photo by Trond Reidar TEIGEN \/ NTB \/ AFP) \/ Norway OUT)<\/p>\n

The team returned home this week \u2014 taxidermied raccoons in hand<\/a> \u2014 after a 2-1 loss in extra time to the Three Lions.<\/p>\n

Of course, even with star striker Erling Haaland, the team getting to the quarterfinals was a huge achievement for the Scandinavian nation, and their best World Cup performance ever, topping a pair of Round of 16 appearances in 1938 and 1998.<\/p>\n

Clearly, it meant a lot, because people turned out in droves to cheer on the team in Oslo as they left the Royal Palace.<\/p>\n

Again, I feel like this has to be reiterated: this is for a team knocked out in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n

We’ve seen championship parades here in the States that didn’t draw crowds like that, and there are fewer than six million people in the entire country!<\/p>\n

World Cup success is always relative. For some nations, just making it is a victory.<\/p>\n

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But if that’s Norway after bowing out in the quarterfinals, I don’t think they could’ve handled going much further.<\/p>\n

\"Norway <\/p>\n

Fans cheer on the Norwegian national soccer team as they parade through Oslo in an open-top double-decker bus. (Photo by Rodrigo Freitas \/ NTB \/ AFP) \/ Norway OUT)<\/p>\n

Oslo would be bursting at the seams if they made it to the semifinals, and who knows what could’ve happened had they pulled off a miracle and won it all.<\/p>\n

I think we’d wake up the next morning and Norway would be missing on the map. There’d just be a void north of Denmark and west of Sweden<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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It’s probably safe to say that with Haaland only in his mid-twenties, the Norwegians will be back in action at the next World Cup in 2030.<\/p>\n

And maybe they’ll end up having reason for an even wilder celebration.<\/p>\n

Matthew Reigle is a writer for OutKick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At every World Cup, there are a few teams that become tournament darlings. This year it was the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[85],"tags":[157,156,63216,133,63217],"class_list":["post-129997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oslo","tag-norway","tag-oslo","tag-outkick-sports","tag-soccer","tag-the-world-cup"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116924646279798733","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129997","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=129997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}