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Joe Bell (Viking FK | Norway)

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12 months ago
Viking win 3-0.
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12 months ago
4 all draw - 3 goals coming after 90mins!
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newzealandpower
12 months ago
Sounds a crazy finish. Bell a full game and a yellow. 
No Daggers. Stensness can't be too far off a return from his 2nd ACL injury.
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12 months ago · edited 12 months ago · History
Bell a full game and the assist for Viking's 5th goal in a 5-1 thrashing of Haugesund.
The visitors going down to 10 men late in the first half (1-1).

Still no Daggers.

Viking go top of the table, though they have played 1-2 more games than other teams.
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12 months ago · edited 12 months ago · History
Sounds like he's definitely trying to be a more attacking outlet this season in Norway.

Reading Niche Cache, he had a couple of shots only just off the target in the last game a frantic 4-4 draw.

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newzealandpower
12 months ago · edited 12 months ago · History
There's a very annoyingly paywalled article that was put up after the match that suggests there were scouts from several leagues (Denmark, Czech Republic - Sparta Praha in particular, and England) who were there watching Joe Bell this morning as well.

https://www.rastavanger.no/zlatko-tripic-stjal-showet-med-sparta-praha-og-klubber-fra-england-og-danmark-pa-tribunen/s/5-165-94834

If anyone can work out how to get the hell into it. 😅
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12 months ago · edited 12 months ago · History
Interesting. He's already tried Denmark. Prague a great city, but a step backwards football wise.

English heritage. Surely a UK move would appeal the most, if say a decent Championship club.


Bell is 26, and it seems only now potentially really delivering on his earlier promise (thinking back to the 2019 U20 WC). Was sort of the same with Rufer took a number of pro seasons before really taking command of that tricky DM role.

Early days this season in Norway, but good signs for Joe Zen Bell.
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11 months ago
Full game and a yellow in a 0-0 draw
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11 months ago · edited 11 months ago · History
Niche Cache. Corner assist from the 5-1 win last week

On that note, apparently there were scouts from several different countries (Serbia, England, and Denmark) in attendance for the Hausegund game. This Viking squad has quite a few young players getting minutes – there were only three starters in common from the corresponding Hausegund fixture last season, including Bell – so that’s not necessarily got anything to do with the kiwi midfielder. But there does seem to be a growing feeling amongst VFK fans that they might soon need to resign themselves to selling Bellinho for a second time. Could be something to ponder as we near the European summer.

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martinb
11 months ago
Tough battle, but Viking get a 91st min winner, for 1-0.
Full game Bell.
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11 months ago
Viking will wish they can play Haugesund every week.
A 4-1 road win for Bell's team. Full game for him. Still no Daggers or Stensness.

Viking go top of the table, though teams below have games in hand.
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11 months ago
Bell full game in a 3-1 win. Viking tracking well top of the table, though teams below with games in hand.
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11 months ago
Bell a full game in a 7-0 cakewalk. Still no Daggers

Asane are based in Bergen, a beautiful city I visited years ago up in the fjords. Not that unlike Wellington. Wiki tells me SK Brann are the biggest club in Bergen - Norway's 2nd biggest city.
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11 months ago
Bell full game in a 1-0 win. Viking stay atop the league.

Big game this weekend travelling to Bodø / Glimt. The 4 times champions are down in 6th, but have 4 games in hand on Viking.
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11 months ago
Viking might well be the real deal.

A 4-2 win away at the 4x champs.
Bodø / Glimt don't lose at their northern fortress very often, and have just come off an impressive run to the Europa League semis.

Caveat being that the home team went down to 10 men at 63 mins, when they were leading 2-1. Viking then scoring 3 goals between 73rd - 91st mins.
Bell a full game.
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AucklandPhoenixnewzealandpower
11 months ago
Just found this website (and they have an app in the Google store) where you can watch all the Norwegian league matches for free:
https://tv.onefootball.com/en/live-matches
They also have all the Finnish league matches live to see any Kiwis who may be playing there. Men's leagues only.

Big Pete 65, Christchurch

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Jazzy JeffnewzealandpowerYe
10 months ago
Full game Bell in a 1-0 road victory 
Viking keep churning out the wins. Their 6th in a row
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newzealandpower
10 months ago
Niche Cache.

This was the week where Viking were supposed to prove their championship challenging bonafides. They were away to Bodø/Glimt and Molde in the space of a few days. Time to show that all these goals they’ve been scoring and games they’ve been winning were sustainable things.

Guess what? They won both of them. In the space of one week they took down the two clubs that have combined to win the last six Norwegian league titles and with that Viking have moved even further clear in top spot. Yes, they’ve played more games than anyone else. But thanks to these two victories, there’s now nobody who can catch them with their games in hand. All VFK’s gotta do is win their remaining 18 games across the rest of the year and bingo.
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10 months ago
Good highlights package for his agent to get busy with.

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martinbOi Oi Edgecumbe
10 months ago
coochiee
Good highlights package for his agent to get busy with.


that's class.
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martinbOi Oi Edgecumbe
10 months ago
Viking keep rolling on. 
A 3-0 win. 
Full game Bell. Still no Daggers or Stensness 
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10 months ago
coochiee
Viking keep rolling on. 
A 3-0 win. 
Full game Bell. Still no Daggers or Stensness 

Rumours of Daggers heading back to the Victory floating around Sokkah Twitter, just not from anyone I consider credible yet.
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10 months ago
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Elemenopnewzealandpower
10 months ago
Viking a 1-0 win and into the Cup semi finals.
Full game Joe Zen Bell.
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10 months ago
Via Niche Cache.

Meanwhile, we’re almost exactly a month away from the beginning of their Europa Conference League qualifying campaign. The draw was conducted for that last week and Viking will face the winner of Željezničar (Bosnia and Herzegovina) vs Koper (Slovenia).

Now everybody sing along!

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martinb
10 months ago
Part of me wants him to stay at Viking until after the WC at least! He obviously feels quite comfortable there and it’s showing in the way his game has rebounded of late.


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10 months ago
martinb
Part of me wants him to stay at Viking until after the WC at least! He obviously feels quite comfortable there and it’s showing in the way his game has rebounded of late.

this and this again!
there's a reason he left a 4.5yr contract at Brondby after 1 season and ended back at Viking!

Queenslander 3x a year.

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10 months ago
Yes but he's an intelligent young man. He will have learnt a huge amount from his time at Brondby which being brutally honest was a failure.

I'm sure if say a Championship club comes a calling, he will look at the coach, team mates, environment etc etc all very closely being committing to anything. Like most he will be driven to play at the highest level possible, and he does have that UK heritage.

But for now yes he is playing very good football, Viking are genuine title contenders, and he see seems happy there, has learnt the language etc etc. Maybe he does yes stay there until after the World Cup, which obviously will be a big window for him and other AWs
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