Norwegian champions Bodo/Glimt are one of the vital attention-grabbing sides left in European competitors.
With their residence video games typically going down in freezing circumstances north of the Arctic Circle, going through them can show a tough proposition for unacclimatised opposition, as Lazio discovered within the quarter-finals.
The Italians misplaced the primary leg 2-0 in Norway, and regardless of Lazio combating again to win 3-1 when at residence within the second leg, Bodo/Glimt gained the next shootout to progress.
Lazio are usually not the primary main staff to search out themselves upset by Bodo/Glimt, who famously thrashed Jose Mourinho’s Roma 6-1 within the Europa League group stage 4 years in the past.
The Norwegians additionally achieved a Convention League knockout blow in 2022 in opposition to a Celtic aspect managed by present Tottenham boss Postecoglou.
Bodo is among the many most northernmost cities on this planet and really remoted from different elements of Norwegian society, with the following nearest main metropolis at the least a nine-and-a-half-hour drive away.
Their followers are additionally famed for turning up with large yellow toothbrushes for video games.
The story goes, exterior that the custom was began 50 years in the past when a fan was attempting to get a chant going and, pissed off at it not taking off, used a toothbrush as a approach of ‘conducting’ the group.
The picture caught on and now followers carrying large yellow toothbrushes is the norm. The membership even have their very own model bought all through Norway.
