The Norwegian club have won four Eliteserien titles in five years and face Lazio in the Europa League quarters
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00:00We need to think differently because you know our strategy plan is called our way.
00:05That we need to do things our way because the surroundings are so different.
00:09I think it's family. People want to be here.
00:11They don't need to go to another club to reach this and this because they can
00:15achieve it in this club.
00:17If you go six, seven years back, we were a really small club in Norway.
00:22We were like half of the time on second level, half of the time on playing in top level,
00:28but we were like relegated quite soon.
00:31We are a small club from north of the polar circle.
00:35We are living in a city which has like 50, 55,000 inhabitants.
00:40It's a small city and historically it's a small club as well.
00:43One way or another we are situated in Norway.
00:46The whole city is interested and it has a big boost in the city.
00:51Since 2019 until now we have been two silver medals and we have won the title in the league four times
00:57and have been in Europe now in the group stage or league phase now for four years in a row.
01:03I think the club has brought identity and proudness to the people in the north.
01:08The biggest thing about Bodo Glimp has been that we always think about performance.
01:12We don't give a s*** about results to be honest.
01:16You can feel that some games we can win like 5-0 in the league, but still the day after we are
01:21disappointed because we didn't do our best and by keeping this mindset we can keep developing.
01:29It's like I think five, six, seven people that are in real core positions
01:34have been there now for seven, eight years and have like had the opportunity to
01:39to make Bodo Glimp like a machinery in many aspects.
01:42I think Bodo Glimp definitely has been one of the causes that
01:46the Norwegian football has arisen so much.
01:49I think we have been brave also investing the things that we have earned.
01:52We haven't like put it in the bank, but we have been brave enough to buy good players.
01:57It's not that many clubs in Europe that you can play in Europe every year and be a part of that.
02:02So I think both the players and the club, we really enjoyed the journey and being a part of the
02:08the European tournaments and we see the potential in that and also building Norwegian football as we go.
02:16We are a new kid in town in many aspects, but that's a good thing to be.
02:21We don't set an end goal for everything. We have a goal to be better and of course
02:27we think that with this mindset the results will come and we will achieve things in Europe and we
02:33will achieve things in in our own league. Our ambition is to go to the Champions League in the
02:38Europe. We are playing, we're having the playoffs in the end of August. So we have been in Europe now for
02:43four years. We have lost two times in the playoffs. I think we have grown from a local regional top club
02:51to like I think today we can say that we are a top club in Scandinavia and that we have performed well
02:58in Europe now for some years. So we are we are in a good place. I think