{"id":44277,"date":"2026-02-19T09:33:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T04:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=44277"},"modified":"2026-02-19T09:33:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T04:03:28","slug":"footballs-new-fairytale-how-fk-bodo-glimt-shocked-europes-elites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/champions-league\/footballs-new-fairytale-how-fk-bodo-glimt-shocked-europes-elites\/","title":{"rendered":"Football\u2019s New Fairytale: How FK Bod\u00f8\/Glimt shocked Europe\u2019s elites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In one of the most remarkable stories of this Champions League season, FK Bod\u00f8\/Glimt have stunned European football with a run that reads like fiction. Playing their first-ever Champions League campaign, the Norwegian side has already defeated some of the biggest names in the sport, proving that belief and fearless football can still shake the giants.<\/p>\n<p>Their journey has been nothing short of extraordinary. Bod\u00f8\/Glimt beat Manchester City at home, then followed it up with a historic away victory over Atl\u00e9tico Madrid. The shocks did not stop there. In the knockout stages, the underdogs produced another jaw-dropping performance by defeating Inter Milan 3-1 in the first leg, putting themselves firmly on the European map.<\/p>\n<p>What makes this achievement even more astonishing is where the club stood just eight years ago. In 2017, Bod\u00f8\/Glimt were playing in the Norwegian second division. Today, they are outplaying continental heavyweights in the world\u2019s most prestigious club competition.<\/p>\n<p>Their home stadium, with a capacity of just 8,000, has become one of the most feared venues in Europe this season. The icy conditions, passionate fans, and fearless attacking football have turned every match into a nightmare for visiting teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one of the most remarkable stories of this Champions League season, FK Bod\u00f8\/Glimt have stunned European football with a\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":44278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4652],"tags":[4579,177,3686,1823,3796,4817,1326,422,2347,490,4622],"class_list":["post-44277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-champions-league","tag-bodo-glimt","tag-champions-league","tag-david-ornstein","tag-fabrizio-romano","tag-football","tag-glimt","tag-history","tag-inter-milan","tag-milan","tag-ucl","tag-uefa-champions-league-202526"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44279,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44277\/revisions\/44279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}