The
Norwegian national football team has as their proudest achievement from international football a third place in the
1936 Olympics beating the hosts
Germany in the third place final. Norway have also participated three times in the
World Cup in
1938,
1994 and
1998. Norway had their most succesful period from
1990 to
1998 under the legend coach
Egil Roger Olsen[?] called Drillo because of his dribling skills as a player. He startet his training career with Norway with a 6-1 home victory against Camerun 10/31 in 1990 and ended it 06/27 in 1998 after a 0-1 defeat against Italy in the second stage of the World Cup. The former U21 coach
Nils Johan Semb[?] replaced him after the planed retirement, but has not managed to achive the same results as Olsen.
Some of Norways best single results are: Norway-Brasil 2-1 06/23 in the 1998 World Cup group stage. Norway-Brasil 4-2 05/30 in 1997.
Official pages to The Norwegian Football Association (NFF) in English and Norwegian at
http://www.fotball.no/ (
http://www.fotball.no)