Can they win the 2026 World Cup? No. Can they be the surprise many fall in love with? Yes. Maybe with some new stars too.

Getting to the World Cup has been a goal, a dream and a nightmare for Norway for 27 painful and long years. Now it is a reality if it is not 9–0 or more to Italy in Milan on Sunday night. Therefore, we are more than happy to play that the USA ticket is already ready.

Of the 48 countries participating in the World Cup, 47 will envy Norway's options in the forward position. Even Brazil, Spain and France had traded their three best-ranked strikers for Erling Braut Haaland, Alexander Sørloth and Jørgen Strand Larsen.