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Week 29: Terrific Day in Trondheim

Week 29: Terrific Day in Trondheim

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Scores

Start 0 – 0 Rosenborg BK (M)

That was a thing that happened. Moving on.

Real Salt Lake 0 – 0 Minnesota United

Your curly haired “cousin”
(Minnesota United)

Both Salt Lake and Minnesota won their first games of the “MLS is Back” tournament (which I still prefer to call “July Jamboree”), so they naturally played a boring as hell cagey match with both teams taking a point and staying in position to advance. However, Minnesota got to see Thomas Chacon, who looks to be only a couple months older than you boys, so that was nice

Rosenborg BK 3 – 1 Kolbotn (W)

For the first time this year, RBK had both the ladies and the gentlemen playing at home on the same day. Unfortunately, also for the first time this year, the ladies of Rosenborg gave up a lead. Though Cesile Andreassen put them up in the first half amid a rampaging attack, Kolbotn struck quickly after half time to level the score.

Then Marit Clausen did a number of Marit Clausen-y things (you know dominating the air, causing havoc in front of goal) and Rosenborg ran out winners. None too shabby for an undefeated start to the season, and it should be said that their post match song is flame.

Rosenborg BK 2 – 1 Sandefjord (M)

The gentlemen of Rosenborg found a way to win and sweep the double header day thanks to Kristoffer Zachariassen whose presence on corner kicks was a major difference maker. Scoring one in the first half on a blooping cranial chip, and a second to seal the win

One concern for the now fourth place Rosenborg side is that during this six game unbeaten run their attacking crew has changed more often than filters in a home made Coronavirus mask.

Midfielder Zachariassen now has four goals, all from set pieces, while no other player has more than 1 (including big name signings Dino Islamovic and Torgeir Borven, as well as stalwart Pal Andre Helland, and starlet Emil Konradsen Ceide). Combine Sunday’s scrambles for goal with the paltry opportunities on offer in their midweek game at Start, and RBK has reason to start strategizing differently

News & Notes

Kvinning

Yes, Rosenborg is on top of the ToppSerien in Norway. Yes, this is the first time any of our teams has led any league during this (admittedly relatively recent project). Yes, this means they are awesome and we’re having a lot of fun. In particular, Marit Clausen and Julie Blakstad who are now tied for the ToppSerien golden boot watch! Can’t lie, this is fun.

Young Warriors walk away, Loons check in

This is not the offseason Punjab FC would have hoped for. First came the transfer ban, and this week two young stars left the club. According to the awesome Nehal from the Away End, first Thoiba Singh Moirangthem, headed to Odisha FC, and now Makan Chothe has left for top tier side FC Goa

Bebelo may be flying north soon
(Photo from ESPN)

Meanwhile, Minnesota United have their eyes set not on a departure but a massive acquisition: Emanuel “Bebelo” Reynoso a young star for Boca Juniors in Argentina. While Boca is stacked and playing time is thin, Reynoso still seems like a serious talent who could light a fire under the Loons offense while the defensive spine continues to blockade the goal.

Player of the Week

Marvelous Marit
(RBK.no)

Right now Marit Clausen’s game is so hot it makes a July day in Minnesota feel like a January day in Minnesota. Clausen is so on fire that she doesn’t drink water to cool down, she drinks flame retardant chemicals (Note: THAT WAS A JOKE, DON’T DRINK FLAME RETARDANT CHEMICALS EITHER IF YOU PLAY WELL, PLAY POORLY, OR NEVER PLAY AT ALL). Clausen has kicked so much butt, that Chuck Norris is asking her for pointers. Point is Marit Clausen rocks.

What’s Next

Wednesday, July 22

9:30 Colorado Rapids v Minnesota United

Thursday, July 23

Friday, July 24

Saturday, July 25

8:00 Arna Bjornar v. Rosenborg BK (W)

Sunday, July 26

1:30 FK Haugesund v Rosenborg BK (M)

Monday, July 27

Tuesday, July 28

28. Future Facing

28. Future Facing

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Change is hard.

We’re in a time and a place where just about everyone would give their right arm if we could just “get back to normal.” If we could reset to before the unrest, before the virus, before the last election.

But that’s not what we need. We don’t need to go back. We need to go forward.

Dear Boys,

You can’t prepare for the future by trying to recreate the past

You can see that in the one club that’s still active: Rosenborg Ballklub. No team has won more titles in the men’s or women’s game in Norway. No team has a higher profile, garners more attention, or attracts more talent.

Neither team has been in great form lately. The men scuffled last year and have begun this season decidedly off color. Their last title came just two years ago, but they feel far from championship caliber.

The women, who began play as Trondheim-Orn in 1972, may have dominated the Norwegian soccer scene in the 90’s but it has been a decade since they cracked the top 5. While Lillestrom has grabbed the league by the scruff of the neck, Rosenborg nee Trondheim, might well wish for a chance to go back to their glory days.

But what’s so gratifying is to see the teams push ahead rather than search around behind themselves.

Blakstad celebrates the first of many
(Football.no)

The two players who did the most to shine last week were Emil Konradsen Ceide and Julie Blakstad. Each is only 18 years old. To put that in perspective, if they’d been foreign exchange students: I’d have taught them. Even more in perspective: both they are closer to your age than they are to mine.

That’s as it should be. The focus shouldn’t be on what has been, but on what could be. Ceide and Blakstad are the future of Rosenborg, just as you boys are the future of our family.

Konradsen Ceide (fvn.no)

It can be hard to let go of your own importance, and for every Ceide and Blakstad that rises to the fore, it seems like a veteran player is fading away. To be sure, you can certainly learn a lot from studying the past and respecting those who have gone before you. But that’s not what this is about.

Focusing on the future doesn’t diminish the past. Returning to “normalcy” is only positive if what was “normal” was good for you. Hard as it is to know that my time is passing with every stroke of the keys and tick of the clock, I take comfort in knowing that what comes next will boost you boys into the future.

Week 27: No-Way Norway

Week 27: No-Way Norway

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Scores

Rosenborg BK 1 – 1 Valerenga (M)

Back home with a socially distant crowd and a new chapter to write, Rosenborg looked much more dangerous against Valerenga than they had so far this season. This was due in no small part to Emil Konradsen Ceide’s absolutely stunning grace and intelligence on the ball.

Emil Konradsen Ceide put on his dancing shoes…

That highlight reel is a thing of beauty. His perfect judgement of positioning and angles to draw in defenders and set up the howling Marius Lundemo strike is just a joy to behold.

Oh, yeah, Valerenga scored too to equalize against a still shaky defense, but I’m too busy drooling over Ceide’s skills and smarts to care.

Rosenborg BK v LSK Kvinner (W)

The Toppserien came back this weekend, with Rosenborg’s newly partnered women’s side kicking off against the reigning champions from Lillestrom LSV. Both teams have won the women’s division seven times, but the Trondheim ladies haven’t come close in 15 years.

LSK looked like a championship side on the rainy pitch. Battering at the Rosenborg goal could well have yielded a few more goals than it did, but credit to young Julie Blakstad for a knuckling ball that bashed through the opponent’s hands and into the back of the net for a great equalizer.

Stabaek 0 – 3 Rosenborg BK (M)

The class of the Troll Children started to shine through a little more on Sunday. (Seriously, that’s their nickname. I don’t know how I haven’t used it in every Rosenborg post ever, but here we are.)

They appeared in total control of the game against Stabaek, perhaps none more so than Left Back, Anders Trondsen who inserted himself into two build ups to frazzle the defense and set up the team’s second and third goals. As RBK brings in a few more high profile names and starts to stretch their legs out for more fast paced style, the team has a great chance to build throughout July.

News & Notes

Summer Transfers start to sizzle

After several months of inaction, teams have begun to move players around, particularly now that the first major European league (Germany’s Bundesliga) has closed up shop for the summer.

Freiburg said goodbye to Yoric Ravet, Jerome Gondorf, and Pascal Stenzel, none of whom seemed to factor much in the action this past season. But word that Schalke is sweet on goalkeeper Alexander Schwolow and set to steal him away, might well give Griffins something to worry about.

Meanwhile, the end of the Bundesliga brought great news for Rosenborg, as beloved youth product and international standard midfielder Per Ciljan Skjelbred leaves Hertha Berlin to rejoin his home town club. (That caption above reads “Per is back where he calls home”) It’s particularly valuable as Marius Lundemo prepares to head off for sunny Cyprus and the team needs a new central pivot for their attack.

Loons take flight…?

Here in the US, Major League Soccer is due to restart tomorrow…except…

So, America isn’t really a functional society right now. We’re a too divided and mad at each other to do the basic things and make the basic sacrifices that Norway and Germany did already. Instead of testing like crazy in Germany, only the lines to get tested are crazy. Instead of social distanced everything like in Norway, we have people partying up on top of each other.

And so, one team has already been removed from the tournament due to positive test results, and a warm up match against an opponent was cancelled. So…maybe we have a game on Sunday, or maybe we see it all come crashing to a halt…again.

Man of the Matches

He didn’t score. He didn’t factor in to the cruising win at Staebek, but my goodness, I think I’m in love with Emil Konradsen Ceide.

Emil Konradsen Ceide

What’s Next

Wednesday, July 8

Thursday, July 9

Friday, July 10

Saturday, July 11

7:00 AM Lyn Football v. Rosenborg BK (W)

1:30 PM Rosenborg BK v Stromsgodset (M)

Sunday, July 12

7:00 PM Sporting KC v. Minnesota United

Monday, July 13

Tuesday, July 7