“Threats” and “harassment” at the hotel receiving the national selection in Norway

A portugal's delegation was received, at the end of the night Friday, in a climate of absolute ‘crazyness’, on arrival at Radisson Blu, in Nydalen, where it will be installed, with a view to meeting the second day of the group phase of the new sports season of 2026/27 of the League of Nations, in which it will be ahead of Norway.

Several hundred people were looking, above all, for the opportunity to see Christian Ronaldo closely, shouting his name so enthusiasticly that, according to the Scandinavian newspaper Dagblet, he even asked for “calm”, before distributing some autographs and refraining in the room that was allocated to him.

It was then that everything ‘displaced’. Several adherents have overcome the security barriers, so that the intervention of the police authorities was needed, which, in the space of approximately half an hour, eventually managed to disperse the crowd, not without it being able to leave a marked mark.

The publication spoke with officials of this hotel unit, who claimed to have been the target of “threats of violence and “serious harassment”. Situations that started just before the arrival of the bus carrying the national team when they had to stop a number of people who tried to access the site without permission.

There was a “verbal confrontation” when it was communicated to these individuals who could not infiltrate the hotel, who repeated themselves, already after the team of quinas settled, but the director of it, Suzanne Hansen, refused to extend in explanations: “Unfortunately, I cannot comment on guests or employees.”.

Still, Oslo Police Chief of Operations Marius Hatloy Kristiansen confirmed that he was called to the scene: “We received reports, just before 8 p.m. [local time, 7 p.m. in mainland Portugal] about a gathering of young people. I have no information about threats against employees.”.

The so-called youths will have begun to “run and create a commotion”, but the prominent agents “came to the scene, and things calmed down without having to do much more than show up.”.

Portugal’s agenda (and accounts)

Norway-Portugal, remember, has an initial whistle scheduled for 7:45 on Sunday at Ullevaal Stadion in Oslo. Before that, this Saturday, Jorge Jesus and a player will hold the traditional preview of the clash with Norway, at a press conference that begins at 4:00 p.m., an hour before the final preparation training.

The game of the second round of the League of Nations group phase will be judged by François Letexier, who will lead an almost 100% French arbitration team, with assistants Cyril Mugnier and Mehdi Rahmouni, the fourth referee Jérémie Pignard and AVAR Nicolas Rainville. The only exception will be the VAR, the Belgian Bram Van Driessche.

Portugal and Norway reach this stage in the shared leadership of Group 4, with three points each, as a result of the victories achieved, respectively, over Wales (by 0-1) and Denmark (by 3-2), opponents who continue to ‘zeros’, so they live at the bottom of the classification table.