Following their second-place finish in their UEFA Nations League group, Norway have decided to kickstart a facelift of their national team, hiring Stale Solbakken to take over as coach, entrusting an enemy of Pep Guardiola with the international futures of Martin Odegaard and Erling Haaland.
Dubbed Norway's Golden Generation, Haaland and co failed to qualify for Euro 2021 under Lars Lagerback's stewardship, and the decision has been made to try and shake things up at international level.
Solbakken had been without a club of late but will now have the task of ensuring Norway get the very best out of two generational players in Odegaard and Haaland.
The former Wolves coach actually had an ill-tempered run-in with Guardiola during Barcelona's 2010/2011 Champions League campaign when Pinto put an opposing player off with a whistle.
It was mistaken for the whistle of the official and Solbakken's side stopped playing, much to the anger of their coach.
"Pinto deserves four or five matches suspension," Solbakken declared at the time.
"He's a bad apple."
The two coaches would then greet each other in the tunnel but it wasn't a friendly meeting, in fact Sergio Busquets had to get between the pair during this exchange to avoid an all-out brawl.
Miacmnu
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look at that guys
madcduy
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2it are they foes
greataderemi
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Thy don’t know what to right believe me
MadimetjaSane
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wait, who ?
DreamBoyOfAllGirls
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Both of them:- since we can't agree with eachother, let's go to Zidane to settle it.
Lol, Well said [Crylaugh]
ishti
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"Covfefe" made more sense than this article
ishti
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Guardiola : You are more balder than me !!! Solbakkan : No, you are more balder than me !!!
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Both of them:- since we can't agree with eachother, let's go to Zidane to settle it.
DreamBoyOfAllGirls
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If Solbakkan was the now coach of any EPL team then Guardiola would had killed him with his mind blowing brain and tactics, considering that he was Guardiola's enemy. Guardiola >>>>>>>>>> Solbakkan
DreamBoyOfAllGirls
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Guardiola : You are more balder than me !!! Solbakkan : No, you are more balder than me !!!
zuca_brazuca
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Classic sensationalist type of journalism. 1 - Grab a meaningless thing that happened years ago and create a bigger issue that ever was 2 - Connect that to the current news which in itself would be so meaningless nobody would even read 3 - Associate it to a big name in football that sells such as Guardiola, Haaland and Odegaard 4 - Try to trigger fans of as many teams as possible to create a response in the form of sharing and commenting 5 - Sit back and watch it burn
subra101
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Wait wat??