Norwegian national football team
The
Norwegian national football team has as their proudest achievement from international football a third place in the
1936 Olympics beating the hosts
Germany in the third place final. Norway have also participated three times in the
World Cup in
1938,
1994 and
1998. Norway had their most successful period from
1990 to
1998 under the legendary coach Egil Roger Olsen, called
Drillo because of his dribbling skills as a player. He started his training career with Norway with a 6-1 home victory against
Cameroon October 31 1990 and ended it on
June 27 1998 after a 0-1 defeat against
Italy in the second stage of the World Cup.
The former U21 coach Nils Johan Semb replaced him after his planned retirement, but has not managed to achieve the same results as Olsen. He was replaced by Åge Hareide towards the end of 2003, who came from Rosenborg.
Some of Norways' best single results are: Norway-Brazil 2-1 June 23 1998 in the World Cup group stage, and Norway-Brazil 4-2 May 30 1997.
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