{"id":1628,"date":"2026-06-05T13:58:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T13:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=1628"},"modified":"2026-06-05T13:58:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T13:58:29","slug":"world-cup-2026-david-yarrow-explains-viral-norway-world-cup-viking-photoshoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=1628","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: David Yarrow explains viral Norway World Cup Viking photoshoot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Realising his vision for photo, though, was not so straight-forward. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Yarrow had to navigate the packed schedule of Norway captain and Premier League champion Martin Odegaard &#8211; who was in Budapest with Arsenal for the Champions League final on the day of the squad shoot. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After the parade had left north London, Odegaard joined Yarrow for a solo shoot, and the cloudy conditions matched those of the original shoot &#8211; meaning his figure could be added in without too much fuss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But it was crucial to Yarrow that Odegaard and his title rival Haaland did not steal the show. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The one thing that was important about that picture is if, in the Norwegian squad, you&#8217;ve got someone that&#8217;s worth \u00a3200m and then you&#8217;ve got Watford&#8217;s goalkeeper (Egil Selvik) that&#8217;s worth \u00a3250,000, the third-in-line goalie \u2013 that they both occupy the same amount of the frame,&#8221; Yarrow told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That&#8217;s very important for me. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That is was not seen to be Haaland and Odegaard and 24 others \u2013 it was important to foster a sense of team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Yarrow was a guest of Norway as the side beat Sweden 3-1 in a warm-up friendly on Monday, with goals by Jorgen Strand Larsen and Antonio Nusa. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was struck by the breadth of talent in the Norway team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;People think it&#8217;s a team of two people and it&#8217;s so not,&#8221; said Yarrow, who was born in Glasgow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a seriously good football team, from their wingers to their backs, and I think they&#8217;ll go quite far in the tournament. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But, like Scotland &#8211; they&#8217;ve got to win their first game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Realising his vision for photo, though, was not so straight-forward. Yarrow had to navigate the packed schedule of Norway captain&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}