Norway’s football team ship traditional food to its US World Cup training base to avoid eating American food

Anything to keep Haaland happy

The people of the US love to brag about their fast food joints and free refills but it seems as if a lot of Europeans don’t really agree about the quality of their food.

The World Cup is well underway now and squads will have spent the last few weeks living in the US ahead of the huge football tournament, which was causing plenty of controversy before a ball was even kicked.

Apart from having to deal with the various new rules set by FIFA and the extreme temperatures in some of the stadiums (at least the ones that aren’t air conditioned), players will also have had to deal with the food on offer.

Now American food certainly has a reputation for being pumped full of sugar, fats and preservatives and considering the strict diet that footballers need to follow to keep their bodies in top condition, sometimes this simply won’t cut the mustard.

And that’s certainly the opinion of the Norway squad at least, who came prepared by shipping hundreds of kilograms of traditional Norwegian food to its camp in Greensboro.