Football star at 24, him the prolific striker of the Manchester City of Pep Guardiola, Erling Haaland is still waiting to play a first major international competition. Norway has been on the absent subscribers since Euro 2000 after participating in the two previous World Cups, in 1994 in the United States and in 1998 in France. During the hexagonal World Cup, the Norwegians led by Tore André Flo had beaten Brazil to finish 2nd from their group before being eliminated by Italy in the knockout stages of a goal from Christian Vieri.
Norway can start to dream of participating in the next World Cup next year in North America. In addition to their 1.94 m star striker, the Rode, Hvite, Bla (Les Rouge, White, Bleu) have another Crack of European football in the person of Martin Odegaard, the playmaker of Arsenal. And we also find the center-forward of Atlético Alexander Sorho, the Wolverhampton striker Jorgen Strand Larsen or the players of the TFC Warren Kamanzi and Aron Donnum.
Martin Odegaard and Erling Haaland gathered in Norwegian selection.
Norway is well gone to its World Cup 26 qualifiers co-organized by Canada, the United States and Mexico. In group I to five teams that started in March, the Scandinavians won in Moldova (0-5) and against Israel (2-4). They therefore have six points before a long -awaited shock against Italy, on June 6 in Oslo. Erling Haaland, victim of an ankle injury, resumed the race on the side of Man City and should resume before the end of the English championship before chaining with his national team against the Nazional.
Italy less rated than Norway
The Italians inherited this hen of the 2026 World Cup qualifiers after their elimination of the quarter-finals of the League of Nations against Germany (1-2, 3-3). They are favorites in danger. Statistical calculations of account x
Global Football Only give 43.5% chance to the Gianluigi Donnarumma team to finish at the top of the group and 56.4% in Norway to be in front! The first will be qualified while the second will compete in the European dams in March 2025, in the form of four Final Four for as many qualified.
Italy already remains on two non-qualifications at the World Cup, in Russia and then in Qatar, and missing that of 2026 across the Atlantic would be an absolute shame while FIFA increased the number of participants from 32 to 48. That said, the Azzurri by Luciano Spalletti are rather good collectively, they won for example in front of the French team last September (1-3) Princes, before losing against these same blues in San Siro (3-1), on November 17, before resisting the Mannschaft well. But what about the Norwegian tornado?
