It is, as everyone knows by now, 20 years since Ole Gunnar Solskjær scored that goal in European football’s biggest stadium and on European football’s biggest night. And, if it has often felt inescapable over the last fortnight, inevitably it was there again when he finally returned two decades later, playing on the screens of the press room as he got up and made his way to the Camp Nou pitch for the first time since 1999, BarçaTV recalling the moment more than the man in the middle of it.
“I don’t know how I will feel when I get there – there will be many emotions and it is a fantastic memory for me of course,” Solskjær said before heading out. He was 26 then; he is 46 now. “That was the only time I have ever been on the pitch, actually. I came here to the clásico in 2016 with my young son; we bought two tickets and sat high up in the stands. And I came again 10 days ago [to watch Barcelona-Atlético], but that’s it and I don’t really look back that often. I’ll just focus on tomorrow, on a better performance.”
Written by Sid Lowe in Barcelona
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/apr/15/ole-gunnar-solskjaer-camp-nou-manchester-united-barcelona under the title “Ole Gunnar Solskjær preaches belief on historic return to Camp Nou”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
