The story of Norway's Viking World Cup photoshoot

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Renowned British photographer David Yarrow tells BBC Sport what inspired his viral Norway World Cup send-off photo.

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  1. Martin Odegaard, successful  viking costume, looks astatine  a publication  with David Yarrow

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    Yarrow captured behind-the-scenes footage to ward disconnected suggestions his photograph had been generated by artificial intelligence

Slide 1 of 4, Martin Odegaard, successful viking costume, looks astatine a publication with David Yarrow, Yarrow captured behind-the-scenes footage to ward disconnected suggestions his photograph had been generated by artificial intelligence

Realising his imaginativeness for photo, though, was not truthful straight-forward.

Yarrow had to navigate the packed docket of Norway skipper and Premier League champion Martin Odegaard - who was successful Budapest with Arsenal for the Champions League last connected the time of the squad shoot.

After the parade had near northbound London, Odegaard joined Yarrow for a solo shoot, and the cloudy conditions matched those of the archetypal sprout - meaning his fig could beryllium added successful without excessively overmuch fuss.

But it was important to Yarrow that Odegaard and his rubric rival Haaland did not bargain the show.

"The 1 happening that was important astir that representation is if, successful the Norwegian squad, you've got idiosyncratic that's worthy £200m and past you've got Watford's goalkeeper [Egil Selvik] that's worthy £250,000, the third-in-line goalie – that they some inhabit the aforesaid magnitude of the frame," Yarrow told BBC Sport.

"That's precise important for me.

"That is was not seen to beryllium Haaland and Odegaard and 24 others – it was important to foster a consciousness of team."

Yarrow was a impermanent of Norway arsenic the broadside bushed Sweden 3-1 successful a warm-up affable connected Monday, with goals by Jorgen Strand Larsen and Antonio Nusa.

He was struck by the breadth of endowment successful the Norway team.

"People deliberation it's a squad of 2 radical and it's truthful not," said Yarrow, who was calved successful Glasgow.

"It's a earnestly bully shot team, from their wingers to their backs, and I deliberation they'll spell rather acold successful the tournament.

"But, similar Scotland - they've got to triumph their archetypal game."

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