A Norwegian football fan made an unusual trade to secure his ticket to the crucial semi-final match between Bodo/Glimt and Tottenham Hotspur, a match that was played in the Arctic Circle.
El Bodo/Glimt, con la ambición de convertirse en el primer club noruego en alcanzar una final europea, se enfrentó a una demanda masiva de entradas.
Approximately 50,000 fans competed for only 480 tickets for the Europa League semi-final second leg.
Torbjorn Eide, production manager at a fish farm in Senja, failing to get in, devised a bold proposal: he offered five kilos of boknafisk, a Norwegian delicacy valued at around 2,500 Norwegian kroner (approximately $243), in exchange for a ticket.
We produce the best boknafisk in Norway, and it’s probably not available in the city of Bodo. So I thought maybe someone would want it.
Torbjorn Eide
Oystein Aanes, who had an extra ticket due to his brother’s inability to attend the match, accepted the offer. “It was something fun,” Aanes commented.
Inspired by this transaction, Nils Erik Oskal tried his luck with five kilos of reindeer meat.
Someone took the bait. It didn’t take long.
Nils Erik Oskal
The Oskal exchange could have a value close to 1,000 Norwegian kroner.
But that doesn’t matter, I’m going to experience something enormous.
Nils Erik Oskal
