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VIENNA / OSLO (VG) The Norwegian national emergency team has landed in the Austrian capital Vienna, but with only one goalkeeper. Complications with Per Kristian Bråtveit’s coronatest meant that he had to stay in Oslo. Late Tuesday night, he got the go-ahead to leave.
The Director of Communications and Public Relations of the Norwegian Football Association, Gro Tvedt Anderssen, announced on Tuesday evening that Bråtveit has carried out two new tests today, one faster and one normal. The rapid test is negative, which means that you can travel to Vienna tomorrow morning. The answer to the ordinary test will arrive tomorrow. It must also be negative for Bråtveit to be battle ready according to UEFA protocol.
Tvedt Anderssen told VG on Tuesday that Bråtveit must travel with his own plane as a result of recent UEFA austerity measures.
It should be a mandatory requirement and, according to Tvedt Anderssen, it is the NFF that will take care of the additional bill, something that “will probably cost around NKr 100,000”.
At six o’clock in the afternoon, the chartered plane landed at Vienna airport, which thus contains 17 of the 18 players in the squad and the support apparatus.
The acting coach of the national team, Leif Gunnar Smerud, informs VG that it was a good trip and that now they were going directly to the hotel before training and the press conference planned for tonight.
Most of the players did not want to comment on the journalist published by VG and calmly walked towards the waiting bus.
NFF stated about Bråtveit’s absence in a press release just before leaving Gardermoen.
– On Monday the new national team met in Gardermoen for a crown test before today’s departure to Austria. All the test results were negative, except for goalkeeper Per Kristian Bråtveit. His proof was supposedly inconclusive, that is, uncertain. Therefore, the test was analyzed again, writes NFF in the press release.
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This means that at the time of writing, Norway has only one goalkeeper with him for the Austrian capital – Union Saint-Gilloise goalkeeper Anders Kristiansen.
– Today we sent the sample for a new analysis, which did not give a final answer either. Both entry into Austria and UEFA protocol require a negative response to the covid-19 test. For security, you have performed a new test. An uncertain test means that he will not join the squad on the plane to Austria. If the new test shows it to be negative, travel after the team, says national team doctor Kjell Erik Strømskag.
CURRENTLY NOT INCLUDED: Per Kristian Bråtveit is still in Norway awaiting a new test result. Photo: Trond Reidar Teigen / NTB scanpix
However, acting manager Leif Gunnar Smerud expects Bråtveit to join the rest of the team on Wednesday, in time for the game against Austria.
– It is not uncommon for tests to be effective for people who have had covid in the past. But now we are taking no chances and unfortunately we are without Bråtveit. We hope you can catch up early tomorrow. From a sporting point of view, it is naturally a disadvantage to travel with only one goalkeeper, but we just have to respect that situation, says Smerud in the press release.
Bråtveit is one of the few members of the newly formed national team squad who has some experience with the national team. He is not one of the five who have debuted in the national team, but he is one of those who have been called up for the A team and participated in the match.
The Djurgården goalkeeper was infected with the coronavirus earlier this fall. According to the national team doctor Strømskag, it will no longer be contagious.
