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THE NORWEGIAN FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION He wanted to contain the elite league players and send the rest of the A-men from Norway to Romania and Austria last Saturday, this column agreed that it was a good solution.
Was not.
THE UEFA PROTOCOL HAS it has been good for football. Until November. Until the end of the Champions League and Europa League in August, he kept the infection under control. Throughout the periods of national teams in September and October, the same.
As the infection increased dramatically in Europe, it became obsolete.
Speak: – Bad
HEALTH DIRECTOR BJØRN GULDVOG He saw it and advised Health Minister Bent Høie to halt the League of Nations matches against Romania and Austria, even though the refusal to travel was in a legal gray area. Many of us didn’t see it.
We think that the official Norwegian Health Department was more than cautious and we affirm with conviction that playing the games would be within good infection control.
UEFA, the NFF, the Romanian authorities and the Austrian authorities did the same.
Now we know better.
BJØRN GULDVOG HAD right, and I was wrong. Along with a dozen soccer fans. We let the desire for fights overshadow the medical fact.
As if the beautiful game could triumph over science, only the boys took their own plane to Romania.
New crown clash in the national team
THE HEALTH TOP WAS MADE laughs when Norwegian national team players were allowed to travel separately on regular planes, after being first refused to travel to Romania with a machine chartered just for them. Where was the logic?
Scheduled flights are fine, charter flights are not.
Social media took care of the rest.
WAS NOT the flight that Bjørn Guldvog was concerned about when he thought it would be extremely reckless if the NFF pushed the trip to Romania and Austria. It was the danger of more undetected infections beyond Omar Elabdellaoui’s positive test.
The rest of us, whose knowledge of the virus comes to a halt when covid-19 means corona virus disease discovered in 2019, we thought that all tests on the Norwegian team had revealed that it was with a positive sample.
The top of health feared more.
IS A which is why Bjørn Guldvog is director of health, and I have more than enough to keep my tongue straight in my mouth and not violate the alphabet. I knew what we now know could happen. I knew that several positive tests could appear in the future.
No reason for hysteria
Bjørn Guldvog feared that the Norwegian national team squad could become a super spreader, infecting Romanians as well as others.
The rest of us were scared of Norway’s seeded level in the upcoming Qatar 2022 World Cup group draw.
LATE WITHDRAWALS ARE RARE good exercise. But now it is. Football Norway should be happy to have players like Bent Høie, Bjørn Guldvog and Espen Nakstad.
The NFF has somewhat swallowed last week’s trail and has taken an initiative towards UEFA with a view to reviewing and updating UEFA’s protocol to the current level of infection.
Everyone, regardless of whether we wanted to say loud, a lot or a little, must apologize for Norway’s best defense: Guldvog, Høie and Nakstad.
