https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/66405575 KI Klaksvik: The Faroese team making history in Champions League qualifiers
A lot of fans here in Sweden are killing themselves laughing at Häken for their comments before they got knocked out by Klaksvik. I was at a Häken match earlier this season and they are a tidy side but don't count your chickens etc.
If they don't win against Mold they'll go into the Europa Group stage which gives them a minimum of 3.6m Euro. That must be massive for a Faroese side compared to their income from elsewhere.
Faroe Islands in English is one of those place-names where the ‘Islands’ is redundant. In Faroese ‘Føroyar’ (descended from Old Norse ‘Fǽrøyjar’) means ‘sheep-islands’.
They're the only team in the Faroes with a decent enough set up. They're guaranteed group stage football in Europe, which is unheard of. They're also part time, which is even crazier. I was going to do the European thread this year but I was away on holiday. I do like that the article mentions the concerns of the other clubs, though. The budget that KI operate on is already more than the rest of the league and this might just create a TNS style scenario where only one team succeeds every season.
He was managing Svendborg in Denmark's third division, dunno what he's doing now. He left City because his missus was homesick, so he went back to the Faroes. Good player, decent in possession if I remember correctly.
In case anybody wasn't aware, the defender for KI, Vegard Forren, was once one of Norway's most promising players. He was capped 33 times for Norway and signed for Southampton off the back of a great season for Molde. He made one cup appearance, scored a cup goal and never played again. He then went back to Molde, was released after a good season and signed for Brighton. He didn't make a first team squad, was released again, then signed for Molde again. He was then fired for stealing money from the fines pot to pay his gambling debts. He then moved to Brann, where he threw an unsanctioned party at the stadium. He was charged with raping a woman at the party (charges dropped). Some career that.
He was the ringleader/eldest of 5 players that took a group of teenagers back to the bar and jacuzzis at the stadium at 3am, when the club were in a relegation battle and had lost during the day, despite having one of the highest wage bills in the league. He, and 4 other players were suspended for the rest of the season and the club got relegated. He's relatively disliked in Bergen now.
is he injured? Sounds like exactly the type of player we will be singing in a panic fuelled final transfer day madness
Ha ha, he's living on a tiny island full of inbred Danes with the highest levels of incest in Europe, dining on rotten puffin meat. Punishment indeed for breaking lockdown regulations in a spectacular way.
friendly rivalry. Joking aside, depending on point of view, he messed up the career of 3 18 yo players, who had just been promoted from the youth team, by encouraging them to join in, who had to leave the club shortly after... it was a big scandal and cited by the supporter groups as an all time low for the club.
Get to the Faroes soon before they are overrun with tourists, they are the new Iceland. Astonishing scenery. Trouble is that the Americans have just heard about them and are starting charter flights. For a flavour, look at this video from Steve Marsh. Starts in Klaksvik.
