Erling Haalandsecond player with the most votes in the recent Ballon d’Or election awarded leo messi At 23, he will go on without playing in the final stage of a major national team tournament after Norway was permanently excluded from Euro 2024.
A day before the end of group A, which takes place tonight, Norway will no longer be able to access either of the two places that provide direct access to the final stage in Germany (from June 14 to July 14, 2024). Spain, with 18 points, and Scotland, with 16, have secured a direct ticket ahead of Norway itself (10), Georgia (8) and Cyprus (0).
There is a possibility to access Norway the repechage playoffs, which will put the last three places at Euro 2024 in contention, but, according to the very complicated system created by UEFA, he has no options in this way either.
Twelve teams will participate in the playoff playoffs, regardless of their place in their group at the end of the qualifying phase. taking into account the results obtained in the last edition of the Nations League, played between 2022-2023.
And Norway is not among those twelve teams. Four of them are from League B of the aforementioned Nations League and will be Israel, Bosnia, who finished first in their group, and two in Ukraine (they can still qualify directly if they beat Italy tomorrow), Iceland and Finland, second in the group, like Norway in League B.
Norway, absent from the final stage since 2000
Despite having numbers in their ranks like Haaland (Manchester City) and Martin Odegaard (Arsenal), Norway has yet to play in the final stage of an international competition since 2000, when it made its only European appearance so far. Previously, it was present at three World Cups, in 1938, 1994 and 1998.
In addition to Israel and Bosnia, Georgia, Greece, Luxembourg and Poland by Robert Lewandowski.
Source: La Verdad
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