There is no shortage of inspirational stories in world football, just like Leicester City, which was born in the Premier League in 2015, crushing a number of giants and winning the Premier League championship that year. The protagonist of our story today is not from the five major leagues, and even many people have not heard of this team before.
It comes from a small port city in northern Norway, Bode. Located on a peninsula in the middle of the Norwegian Sea, 800 miles north of the Norwegian capital Oslo and north of the Arctic Circle, Bodød can see the beautiful Aurora Borden, where the population is only about 44,000, and Bodo Grint is the city's team.
In last week's europa League group game, Roma quickly made headlines the next day in a 6-1 away defeat to Norwegian side Bodo Grint. Not only because this is the "second biggest score defeat" of the Coaching Career of Roma manager, "Madman" Mourinho, but more curiously, what is the origin of this "mysterious division" from Norway?
Founded in 1916 and with a history of 106 years, Bodo Grint is a european centennial club.
Looking back at the whole game, Roma's defeat is not without a trace, and it can be seen from the large rotation of the starting lineup that Mourinho's attitude to this game is to let the main players rest, and the difference in tacit understanding between the players who came off the bench is also a major factor in the loss.
After the game, according to statistics made by the Italian media, roma's starting lineup in Norway's away game against Bodo Grint was worth 125 million euros, while the starting value of the opponent Bodo Grint was only 8 million euros. From the perspective of value, the value of Roma striker Salavi alone can "buy" bodo Grint's entire starting lineup.
This season, UEFA has launched a brand new Intercontinental Championship, the third tier of the UEFA. The tournament is also the third largest European club championship after the Champions League and Europa League. The launch of this tournament, at the beginning, was opposed by some teams, believing that it would increase the burden of the player's game, the player's susceptibility to injury, etc...
In fact, in 2015, UEFA planned to add a third-level team competition, as a lower category tournament, in order to give some lower-ranked UEFA teams the opportunity to compete, so that they can advance to a later stage of the competition, the champions of the UEFA can qualify for the new season of the Europa League group stage.
The European Union came into being, giving teams like Bodo Grint, who had previously been unable to participate in the Intercontinental Championship, the opportunity to show themselves on a larger stage, and the European Union gave them the opportunity to break the wrist with the "giants", of course, they also cherished this stage.
It can be seen that compared with some of the favorite teams that have won the championship, these teams from the small leagues of European countries cherish the participation in the UEFA games, and they do their best in every game, strive to win the game, and do their best to qualify, because this is the only opportunity they can show themselves on a higher stage.
Bodo Grint has never won the Norwegian league before, but has finished second in the league four times and won the Norwegian Cup twice. In addition, since 2005, Bodo Grint has suffered three relegations... No one expected them to lead the 2019 season in the Novo Super League and eventually finish runners-up in the league.
Bodo Grint's home arena can only accommodate up to 7,354 spectators. Before the outbreak, the team averaged about 3,400 spectators per game in its home games, ranking 13th out of 16 teams in the league. However, the hardcore fans of Bodo Grint are quite loyal.
In the Norwegian Premier League, Bodo Grint's budget is only one-tenth of that of a traditional club, but this team has an excellent youth training system and is good at tapping and developing potential young players in northern Norway. Compared to the individual abilities of the players, Bodo Grint will think more about whether the signing object is suitable for the team's tactical system when introducing reinforcements, and always believes that it can help the players to make progress.
In the third round of the 2020-2021 Europa League qualifier, Bodo Grint boldly attacked in the match against AC Milan and once took the lead, but in the end, the score was 2-3, and Bodo Grint lost a goal. With a brilliant performance of assisting the second time, 21-year-old winger Heyyug attracted the attention of AC Milan and signed with the Serie A giants in August.
In the 2020 season, Bodo Grint remained unbeaten in the first 20 league rounds and won all 12 home games. In the end, they created a miracle that belonged to Bode in 2020, and on November 22, 2020, in the 25th round of the league, Bodo Grint beat Stormus 2-1 away to win the league title early, which was the first time in the history of Bodo Grint who won the top league title in 105 years! This scene is very similar to leicester City, the "Blue Fox Miracle" staged in the Premier League in 2015.
At present, in the Norwegian Super League, Bodo Grint still occupies the top of the table with a slight advantage, and they are on the way to the club's first defending league title!