Erling Haaland and his Norway team-mates have been accused of ‘chauvinism’ and ‘neo-Nazi’ imagery after their World Cup photoshoot.
The Man City striker and the group heading to the US were styled as Vikings on a beach in Oslo in the extraordinary shots.
But the response to their creative send-off has split opinion in Norway, with woke critics arguing against the aesthetic due to the Vikings’ large-scale raiding, colonosing, pillaging and raping throughout their dominant era.
The images were ‘chauvinistic and exclusionary’, according to journalist Markus Slettholm of the newspaper Morgenbladet.
And he went even further in an interview with NRK, saying it is ‘reminiscent of what
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