A gleaming Rajko Mitic stadium in Belgrade helped the trumpet sound reach the TV screens back home in Norway. To the smile and joy of some, and to the pure frustration of others. At one point, the trumpet seemed to be a bigger topic of conversation on Twitter than the match itself. Eikeland has supported Norway through matches and championships in “all” sports, and he has long been known for his trumpet playing. On Thursday, the audience got the right between “Everything for Norway” and “Norway in red, white and blue”. – Anyone in Serbia who can take responsibility for taking that trumpet to the Rune Tribune? asked one. VIDFAREN: Here is Rune Eikeland on an away match against Slovakia in 2017. Photo: VEGARD WIVESTAD GRØTT / BILDBYRÅN NORWAY – Rune Tribune «my man, ass». Hope he has two trumpets on Sunday, wrote another. Of the well-known voices, among others former football player Ole Martin Årst got involved. – You with the trumpet in Belgrade. It’s enough now, report Årst. – I do not care Eikeland is on his way home to Norway when news calls. He says that the feedback has flowed on the side of the match – both positive and negative. – There are many who have been annoyed with him. “Get the damn trumpet away,” Eikeland describes. He is quick to emphasize that he has no plans to strangle the trumpet. – I do not care anything about it. We will have fun and enjoy ourselves in the stands. Some like it, others do not. I’m not getting close to it. We had fun. It was great to be in the stands, says Eikeland. Vuvuzela? Some have compared the trumpet playing to the vuvuzela, which was a talking point around the world during the World Cup in South Africa in 2010. The summing was deafening, and a couple of months later Uefa banned the instrument in the stands. Eikeland still thinks the comparison is a boom. – Vuvuzela has only one tone, he trumpets much better musically than vuvuzela, says Eikeland. He has to go back several years in time to find the previous time he received a similar response after a match. – I do not usually get so much feedback. In Malta in 2019, Malta also had a trumpeter. Then people thought I played everything, but he played much more than me, says Eikeland, who said that he does not travel on to Sweden. On Sunday night, Sweden is waiting in Stockholm for Norway. The Swedes also opened with a solid away win (2-0) against Slovenia on Thursday night.
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