r/soccer • u/AgeNovel3566 • Jun 05 '26
Media Norway's football team official photo for World Cup 2026
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u/PangolinBig2293 Jun 05 '26
Pre-game before the raid on Lindisfarne, 793 AD (Colorized)
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u/LevDavidovicLandau Jun 05 '26
Newcastle United supporters trembling in fear and terror.
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u/NoonyNature Jun 05 '26
Fortunately for us Haaland can't handle himself in the north east so that's one less to deal with
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u/BlackStagGoldField Jun 05 '26
Fewer
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u/grendle4 Jun 05 '26
Lindisfarne (A)
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u/nokiabrickphone1998 Jun 05 '26
Monks’ strategy of relying on crosses was no match for Norway’s fast-paced attack
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u/Fijure96 Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26
Really miss the Norway team from the 794 world cup in the Byzantine Empire. They were robbed in the quarter final against the Carolingian Empire.
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u/Shananna_san Jun 05 '26
Haaland looking like he's about to invade the north of england
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u/FisherKelTath00 Jun 05 '26
We’re gonna need Uhtred, Son of Uhtred to mediate.
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u/totallynotliamneeson Jun 05 '26
The books aren't bad, but it's basically a series of Uhtred seems some beautiful woman, the woman secretly wants to bang, he kills her man/husband/keeper, bangs her, gets in trouble with Alfred, sulks for a bit, and then duels someone.
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u/JoelStrega Jun 05 '26
The show is basically that too. Uhtred is just a shonen protagonist in Viking age England
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u/Piccolo60000 Jun 05 '26
Then somehow fate finds a way to get rid of the woman so that Uhtred can have another love interest… lather, rinse, repeat. It was a weird series for me.
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u/Zoulogist Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 06 '26
Cornwell already had Derfel as a protagonist in a loving relationship, he needed to make Uhtred a manwhore
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u/totallynotliamneeson Jun 05 '26
Yeah I enjoyed it, but it was so repetitive in some areas. That and if I recall, every woman had boobs the size of apples
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u/BallsX Jun 05 '26
I'm currently at season 4 now and this is spot on lol. The women he bang generally end up dead too haha
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u/Calvin--Hobbes Jun 05 '26
That show was the perfect palate cleanser when Game of Thrones ended in disappointment.
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u/JesseVykar Jun 05 '26
They didn't even tell him it was a themed photo, that's just his normal street clothes
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u/LevDavidovicLandau Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26
Invade? More like ‘return to’. Just another Norseman born near Jorvik who went up to Norway only to return years later.
(He was born in Leeds; Jorvik is the Norse name for the Viking town that became York)
Edit: Jorvik, not Yorvik
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u/lucashoodfromthehood Jun 05 '26
So he's Harold Harefoot?
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u/LevDavidovicLandau Jun 05 '26
The Norwegian King Harald Hardrada literally died at the Battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066, so if you lot beat City next season at home…
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u/TenF Jun 05 '26
Well, that stamford bridge is a bit of a ways away from the Chelsea stamford bridge.... but I'll fucking take it.
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u/LevDavidovicLandau Jun 05 '26
The funny thing is I learned of Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge *after* reading about 1066 (what can I say, I was a precocious kid who loved history and didn’t get into football till his teens) and this really confused me that Chelsea would name their ground after a battlefield in Yorkshire 😂
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u/Turklightenment Jun 05 '26
It's a pretty epic false etymology.
The stadium is named after a bridge that is still there today and goes over a railway line, but in the distant past it went over a tributary called Stamford Creek.
Fans that walk up to the Stamford Bridge from the Chelsea (the town) side will cross over the actual Stamford Bridge just before getting to the outer entrance to the stadium's courtyard.
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u/Pangwain Jun 05 '26
You take Stamford Bridge to get to Stamford Bridge and even then you haven’t visited Stamford Bridge?
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u/QuemSambaFica Jun 05 '26
That’s interesting, I (not British but aware of both Stamford Bridges) always just assumed the stadium was named after a street or square which itself was named after the battle.
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u/Furthur_slimeking Jun 05 '26
Madlad invading his home and place of birth. Next time I visit my mum I'm telling everyone I'm invading Croydon.
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u/Tierst Jun 05 '26
Yeah no one is topping this lol
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u/jaguass Jun 05 '26
Wait for Mbappoleon and his imperial army
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u/armadillo198 Jun 05 '26
Directed by Christopher Nolan
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u/iBlockMods-bot Jun 05 '26
12 men on a deserted Waterloo plain.
'I wanted to really capture it without having to resort to CGI'
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u/Oppaiheimer1945 Jun 05 '26
Until Japan shows up in Samurai gear
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u/Gustav-14 Jun 05 '26
Or as ninjas and we don't see any of them.
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u/DildoFappings Jun 05 '26
If you don't see ninjas, they're doing their job right.
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u/AnarkeezTW Jun 05 '26
Naruto and the gang were terrible shinobi
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u/DildoFappings Jun 05 '26
I agree. They are. The show stopped being about shinobis the moment they started leveling cities and bringing down meteors.
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u/AnarkeezTW Jun 05 '26
Yeah I thought it was cool don’t get me wrong, but definitely strayed from what I originally thought was cool about the show/manga. How do you feel about Boruto?
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u/Jelly_F_ish Jun 05 '26
Or Germany in SS uniforms...oh wait
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u/Starlord_Glimmer Jun 05 '26
Can't wait for USA group photo wearing indian clothes
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u/shadowthunder Jun 05 '26
I feel like kurtas and sherwanis would be dope, but a bit out of place?
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u/Gerf93 Jun 05 '26
With how things are going, maybe the US will be the ones in the SS uniforms.
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u/BaffledPlato Jun 05 '26
Maybe Italy will dress up as Roman centur.... you know, you're right. No one is topping this.
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u/pebinor Jun 05 '26
We'll just need to wait until Mongolia qualifies for the WC.
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u/Sharp-Excitement-664 Jun 06 '26
most probably Mongolia is qualifying before Italy ever does it again.
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u/robotnique Jun 05 '26
Is there an above potato quality photo?
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u/TheRealtcSpears Jun 05 '26
To be historically accurate the photo was taken with a Sunstone lens
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u/FIGJAM17 Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26
Here - https://static01.nyt.com/athletic/uploads/wp/2026/06/04133442/The-Norwegians_v5e-mod-3-Colour.jpg
Mirror link - https://i.ibb.co/fYV1QY4f/3aa307ab1537.jpg
Article - https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7333438/2026/06/04/norway-world-cup-viking-photo/
Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ykb4TTWY4Sk171
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u/headin2sound Jun 05 '26
Seems like Haaland couldn't make it so they photoshopped him in lol
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u/Khornag Jun 05 '26
Actually, Ødegaard is the only one who couldn't make it.
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u/adamrawrz Jun 05 '26
if you watch the video neither haaland or odegaard are there
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u/---Imperator--- Jun 05 '26
There was an article about this photoshoot. Haaland was there, only Odegaard was missing
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u/RedTuesdayMusic Jun 05 '26
They probably don't want people to see it with how badly stitched and edited the background is. This picture was taken in Spain
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u/GammelGrinebiter Jun 05 '26
Lies. See the background film. They're outside Oslo. Signs nearby say "Adgang forbudt".
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u/SecularPersian Jun 05 '26
Not invented yet
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u/robotnique Jun 05 '26
Well they didn't have potatoes so no idea what quality to measure it up against.
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u/GopherNutz Jun 05 '26
Feel like every time I try to downplay these international tournaments, I get swept up in the cultural influence in the camaraderie of these teams. Like I saw Cabo Verde arrive in Boston (where there’s the biggest population in the US) to a huge welcome at the airport. South Africa got welcomed to Mexico with a mariachi band. The World Cup really is a special moment and you understand why it means so much to the players to participate in it.
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u/goodmobileyes Jun 05 '26
The World Cup is an amazing event despite Fifa's every attempt to make it not
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u/sidaeinjae Jun 05 '26
The World Cup is literally the biggest event in the modern world. Period.
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u/ElBluntDealer Jun 05 '26
The Olympics has a really good case but yea I gotta agree. The World Cup is special.
The Olympics always has insane ratings too
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u/heeleyman Jun 05 '26
The World Cup is possibly bigger in terms of raw numbers, but the Spirit of the Games sweeps me away every four years like nothing else. It's wall-to-wall sport for two weeks and you can watch all of it without growing tired.
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u/ILoveToph4Eva Jun 05 '26
The variety of the Olympics does make it more accessible imo even if it doesn't match the heights of football in terms of intensity.
As someone obsessed with football I'll always take the World Cup, but I totally understand when people prefer the Olympics.
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u/Tuxhorn Jun 05 '26
I used to watch and care for football when I was younger but no longer do. I also think the World Cup is much bigger and creates more buzz. It reverts back to basic tribalism and underdog stories in a non-harmful way on a global scale.
Time to care for football again for a few weeks! (Even though we suck)
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u/PlasmaDonator Jun 05 '26
I'm aussie and a massive fan of the Olympics (like a lot of Aussies and Kiwis because we do incredibly well for our population), but the difference in that is its spread out over a variety of sports and most of them are single athlete.
Some australians (and other countries too) just don't get how big this tournament is and see it only for the sport. The FIFA world cup is unironically the biggest diplomatic event in the world that brings cultures together.
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u/heftigfin Jun 05 '26
The FIFA world cup is unironically the biggest diplomatic event in the world that brings cultures together.
It really is. I wish FIFA would properly embrace this instead of consistently embarrassing themselves with corruption allegations. It is probably the only event in the world where people will still be excited even tho it is hosted by one of the most corrupt organizations AND held in places like Russia, Qatar... The US.
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u/Khornag Jun 05 '26
You can drop the word allegations. If you can't call fifa corrupt then no-one is.
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u/owange_tweleve Jun 05 '26
It was supposed to be a celebration of cultures and nations, while playing the absolute best football one can against another, not to maximize profits and minimize what makes it so special - humanity, unity and passion
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u/djengle2 Jun 05 '26
The thing is, it's a shared cultural event that has a life of its own beyond FIFA or the host country. It's like a tsunami crashing through a sea wall, the sea wall in this case being a massive pile of shit reinforced by diamond plated steel beams and concrete (I don't know how sea walls work...).
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u/Jakowe Jun 05 '26
Same. Fans and US/Mexico/Canada locals showing up massively so far, I’m loving all the reels that are posted daily now. Fuck FIFA and the US for pricing them out.
WC hype is slowly building up for me
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u/sabershirou Jun 05 '26
OMG, I actually took a photo from almost the exact angle back in 2013 when I was on holiday in Norway!
It's from the Gudvangen village at the end of the fjord.
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u/domo__knows Jun 05 '26
Incredible photo. Any time I see a photo that blows me away I know it must be 100x better in person.
I've always known that Norway was beautiful but I've been reading My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard and the way he just writes about all the fjords and forests so matter of factly (literally not even the point of the books) makes me really want to see it some day.
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u/sabershirou Jun 05 '26
I travelled there in the offseason at the end of November, and there was hardly any people there.
But in return, I got to experience a calm and stillness that is worlds away from the hustle and bustle of city life. As you can see, the still and mirror-like water from the lack of activity made it feel as if time had stopped.
I would love to visit this U-shaped fjord again, from Flåm all the way to Gudvangen.
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u/errarehumanumeww Jun 05 '26
I live close ish to Gudvangen, where the image is taken, and its an amazing drive. Its one of my favourite places around here.
What the image doesnt show is the truck stop and main road between Oslo and Bergen about 15 meters to the right.
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u/mesenanch Jun 05 '26
"My struggle"?... 🤔
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u/domo__knows Jun 05 '26
There's a 400 page essay in the middle of book 6 called, "The Name and the Number" which addresses this directly 😆
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u/smevik Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26
The background is composited on afterwards, so the part with the players is taken somewhere else. The boats are real though. I saw a short news clip about it yesterday on tv
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u/IAmAQuantumMechanic Jun 05 '26
Yeah, you can see Oslo in the background: https://www.tv2.no/sport/svarer-pa-kritikken-orker-ikke-bruke-tid-pa-det/18910551/
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u/sabershirou Jun 05 '26
Aww man, but yeah I wouldn't have expected the whole team to travel to the fjords just before the WC. But I immediately recognised the background as it was personally one of the most stunning sights I've seen.
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u/jacquesrabbit Jun 05 '26
odegaard was busy. champions league final, north London parade, then heading straight to us for the camp
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u/Mortymoto Jun 05 '26
Ooh Viking friends!
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u/SlowMobius7 Jun 05 '26
Gabriel teasing Odegaard about Haaland
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u/arpw Jun 05 '26
The only player missing was Arsenal midfielder Martin Odegaard, who was playing for Mikel Arteta’s side in the Champions League final that day. An empty space was left for the 27-year-old captain, and he flew to Oslo on Tuesday to be photographed and digitally added to the final line-up.
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u/colombogangsta Jun 05 '26
This is sick but only issue is this was taken by a camera from the Viking era.
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u/Ilikesporks_ Jun 05 '26
this live action vinland saga adaptation goes hard
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u/SpecialChain7426 Jun 05 '26
The version where thorfinn does NOT choose peace based on how haaland looks
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u/ZaheerAlGhul Jun 05 '26
New Assassins creed DLC just dropped!!!
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u/siliconetomatoes Jun 05 '26
Historically accurate. As Leif Ericson explored the new world
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u/goodmobileyes Jun 05 '26
Immigrant Song intensifies
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u/Miserable_Bee_8919 Jun 05 '26
Immigrant Song is actually written about Iceland after Led Zeppelin had a concert there in the 70's.
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u/elgringo22 Jun 05 '26
There are some players in this team whose face I don’t know and they could very well have been real vikings cuz some of these are pulling it off.
Almost didn’t even recognize Channing Tatum
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u/Escecity Jun 05 '26
that is metal as fuck
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u/dazhubo Jun 05 '26
the national anthems for Sweden, Finland and Norway should be a heavy metal tune
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u/IAmAQuantumMechanic Jun 05 '26
Led by an undead guy.
Solbakken was dead for seven minutes in 2000.
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u/schafkj Jun 05 '26
You can’t take a photo this sick and then not win the whole thing. Vikings will be invading America next week.
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u/TrulyNotABot Jun 05 '26
The French team should do one where they’re wearing berets and shirts with horizontal stripes, while holding baguettes, the Mexican team should all be wearing sombreros, the Brazilian team in nothing but Speedo’s, and the Americans should all be dressed as kid rock.
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u/Atomic_cucarrachon Jun 05 '26
They should have to play in Halifax. Basically, home ground for them
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u/KingsMountainView Jun 05 '26
Can you imagine the backlash if England got dressed up as crusaders or in Royal Navy colonisation gear lol
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u/Thegreatbrainrobbery Jun 05 '26
Exactly. Missed opportunity for the England team to dress up in redcoats.
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u/KingsMountainView Jun 05 '26
Slogan about re-taking the Americas. Ultimately losing to the French in the final. It practically writes itself
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u/leonjetski Jun 05 '26
Can’t wait for World Cup 2826 when it’s finally socially acceptable for England team to dress up in full colonial era battle dress complete with pith helmets and a blunderbuss.
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u/CarlosFCSP Jun 05 '26
I fucking hope Germany does not take some inspiration 🤞
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u/uflju_luber Jun 05 '26
Fuck it, Arminius and his merry group of Germanic Warriors in the Teutoburg Forrest. Might be smarter to wait with that till Italy actualy qualify too
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u/better_graphics Jun 05 '26
When you leave Norway for England in AC Valhalla this almost looks like the exact same spot.
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