About

I’m a 26-year old guy from Denmark who enjoys most sports. Football has in recent years grown on me in particular, and I especially like to follow the national teams rather than club tournaments. I especially like following the “underdogs” – or just in general the teams who have way less ressources and have way worse conditions to succeed. Here I’m naturally talking about mainly the African teams and the small countries. Here, football is a bit more different than it is in Germany, Spain or England. Here, money could be an issue. Political turmoil could be an issue. Poor scouting could be an issue. Only a very limited range of players who can be selected for the roster could be an issue. Even WAR can be an issue. Many things can be issues for these teams that would never be a problem to the established teams like many of the European teams for instance. That means that they simply put have much worse conditions to succeed, and I think that’s partly why it’s exciting for me.

After having been to Africa, I learned much more about how life is there, how something as simple as a football pitch with grass is… Just not really something there is. So it’s cool to think of how they still arrange friendlies, training camps and so on. Because the product compared to what we’re used to in Europe is just supposed to be so much worse. Well, so you’d think. Many African teams can compete on a high international level, and I can’t help but really admire that.

And then there are the small nations like Faroe Islands. With just over 48.000 people living there, it must be quite the challenge for the manager to put together a professional national team, to compete against teams like the European champions Portugal, like they did on October 10th 2016. Yet, they’re currently ranked 80th on FIFA’s ranking, in front of countries like China, Norway, India, Finland, Canada and I could go on and on. Even though the FIFA ranking is not really an accurate measurement, it still gives a slight indication about teams’ qualities.

That’s probably my best attempt at explaining why the national teams with the most obstacles are very interesting to me. But I guess it’s hard to really explain why I like following the teams / countries with the worst conditions.