Here is the man Braut Haaland hunts: – Almost divine
Erling Braut Haaland flies high with 18 goals in just 20 internationals. Jørgen Juve scored 19 goals in just eight games after he became Norway’s national team striker in 1929. The man with the goal record is a legend in Norwegian football.
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– What Haaland is at full speed towards now is fantastic. But Jørgen Juve was an icon in his time. Almost divine, says former football president Per Ravn Omdal to VG.
– What Juve did was enormous, follows NRK’s longtime football commentator, Arne Scheie.
– It was probably not the football player who got me. It was the man Jørgen Juve, says Juve’s wife, Eva Røine, to VG.
Manchester City-ready Haaland has become a superstar. He is already chasing the goal record for Norway, but will struggle to beat Juve’s scoring average as a national team striker: 31 goals in just 23 games.
This gives an average of 1.35 goals per. match.
Haaland’s sensationally good average is currently 0.9 goals (18 goals in 20 games).
On Sunday evening from 18.00, Haaland will chase new goals for Norway, when the return match against Sweden is played on a full Ullevaal.
Juve is listed with a total of 33 goals for Norway. The last two came from the right backfield. Juve took over the goal record from Einar Gundersen 90 years ago and have had it ever since. Telemarkingen played a total of 45 international matches.
He was center-half – midfielder – and captain when the men’s national team won its only international medal with Olympic bronze in 1936. Germany was beaten 2-0 with Adolf Hitler in the stands. The dictator hardly liked himself when the host nation was beaten by the guys from the north.
The Norwegian captain combined Olympic games with being employed as a journalist in the VG forerunner Tidens Tegn. Jørgen Juve registered that the Germans were nervous with Hitler and Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels present at the Post Stadium.
Involuntarily they (the Germans) slipped into a kind of blind belief that in the presence of the Commander and other high-ranking people they could not lose, they forgot that their zealous and skilled coach Otto Nerz had asked them never to “tie” the muscles, but detach themselves . from all the nervousness, playing his usual game, using his brain and trusting himself, analyzing Juve.
Together with the World Cup victory over Brazil in 1998, the Germany match is perhaps the biggest in the history of the men’s national team. According to the book “The Bronze Team – the story of Norway’s greatest football heroes”, the nervousness of the Norwegian team was far from the same.
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«In the opening of the match I got a high ball under control, in half sprint I played it over to Fritjof Ulleberg (right half). Come on, ‘I shouted at him. Thank you, he shouted back. Then I got a feeling: We can do this! »
After losing to Italy in the semifinals, Poland was beaten in the bronze final. The following year, Juve played their last international match and received Norwegian football’s highest honor, the gold pin. But he still joined the World Cup the following year. There he was a defense reserve in the famous 1-2 loss to Italy.
But the story started in Telemark. The Juve family originally came from Lårdal on the north side of Lake Bandak. Jørgen Juve was born in 1906 and grew up in Porsgrunn. As a 16-year-old, he made his debut for Fearless. His career really took off when he came to Lyn three years later.
In 1928 he made his debut for Norway as a right back.
But that was the year after the little one.
Juve was moved up in the “running row” against the Netherlands at Ullevaal on June 12, 1929. 14,000 spectators came to the boil. Jørgen Juve scored his first three national team goals. This was the first season Norway did not lose a match.
The return match in Amsterdam in November was an adventure. Jørgen Juve scored for goal in the match Norway won 4-1.
– It tells a little, he announced in a later interview with NRK.
– We were out pelleting with the big ones.
Juve were the top scorers of the national team. He scored an incredible 19 goals in his first eight internationals as a striker. Including two goals when Norway beat Denmark 5-2 in Copenhagen. Norway became Nordic champions in football for the first and only time. The victory was Norway’s biggest against Denmark ever.
– It is difficult for us today to understand the greatness of what Juve did, says Per Ravn Omdal.
– I have talked to players who played with him like Reidar Kvammen and Øivind Holmsen. Both were on the bronze team. They were dumbfounded with admiration. He had football qualities both forward and backward on the field. And then Juve was a personality beyond that, says Omdal who became known with the all-time top scorer in the 1970s.
Juve always gave thanks for the food speech at NFF’s cod dinner before Christmas.
– His speeches were legendary and a great introduction to football history, says Omdal.
Jørgen Juve died in 1983. Omdal gathered the family for a dinner on the 100th anniversary of Juve’s birth.
– He had a great sense of humor. When Jørgen came into a room, he always had a good story in store, says his wife Eva Røine – now 93 years old.
In 1952 she was named the first «Miss Norway» and was both an actress and a journalist before she later trained as a specialist in clinical psychology. She met Juve at work in Dagbladet and the couple got married in 1958 and had a daughter Jenny.
From his previous marriage, Juve had a son, Gunnar, and a daughter, Turid.
– He was 21 years older than me. But I never think about that. He was such a great speaker while being a patient and calm guy. He never talked about himself. He did not bask in the glory of his past, describes Eva Røine.
During the war, Juve started the weekly magazine Bragd. It did not fall into good soil with German authorities. In 1941 he fled to Stockholm and worked for the Norwegian exile government’s information office before moving on to London and New York. In 1944 he reported as a journalist from the liberated Finnmark.
He took a legal exam in Switzerland in the early 1930s while scoring 10 goals in 12 games for Basel.
After the war, he was employed by Dagbladet for the second time. Much of journalism is governed by both sports and culture. He is especially known for his many portrait interviews done in collaboration with the illustrator Gösta Hammarlund.
– He had a background in law and was a very all-rounder, describes the spouse.
– He had the ability to talk to all kinds of people and was very concerned with being fair, adds Eva Røine.
On Sunday, Norway meets Sweden at Ullevaal. After scoring in Stockholm, Erling Braut Haaland may be able to fix the first home win against the Swedes in 40 years. 90 years ago it was about Jørgen Juve. He scored seven of his goals against the Blue and Yellows. It gave victory against Sweden at Ullevaal in 1929 and 1931 as well as an acclaimed away win 4-1 victory in Gothenburg in 1932.
– We can not deny that it gives a special joy to beat the Swedes. It is the legacy enemy both historically and sportingly, Juve commented later in Dagbladet.
It is not impossible that the 21-year-old from Bryne agrees.