There is a lot to dislike about UEFA, but the promotion of the Conference League has made it possible to get to know the facelessness of the new European faces. Without the Conference League, Anya Breidablik and Anya Zorya would have finished playing in the European Cups already in the final stages of qualifying for the European League – this is how they organize their tournament, which is expected from today. Their superniks don’t cross paths. And because you know everything about Zorya, we only get to know Breidablik.

Like other Icelandic clubs – Reykjavík, Hafnarfjörður, Akranes – they are named after the places they represent. In his opinion, Breydablik has turned his name into mythology. This is the name of the hut of Balder – the god of Scandinavian mythology, the son of the supreme god Odin. Based on these statements, Breydablik is a place, the stars have driven out evil, everything is wonderful, and this is the name given to the club: “Blikar” – “brilliant”.

It is ironic that behind such a love for pagan myths in the town of Breidablik stands such a wonderful Christian church

Breidablik is a multi-sports club, with departments in various sports, including checks and tekwondo. The men’s basketball team has won the Icelandic Championship six times, the women’s football team has won the Icelandic Championship a total of sixteen times, and the men’s football team is among the top ten in the country. The championship of past fate has become less important to others in the history of “Bliskuchy”; Its trophy museum also has one cup and a few League Cups. Everything was won in the remaining fifteen years, and by that I mean part of the club’s history in the lower leagues.

However, Breidablik has a brilliant academy, through which a large proportion of the best Icelandic footballers have passed. Burnley legend Johan Gundmundsson worked with “Blind” since childhood and started his professional career here; Gylfi Sigurðsson and Alfred Finnbogasson spent a lot of time in the youth system; They only talk about other teams, the leader of the US national team, Aron Johansson, lives here in the river. It’s bad for a city with less than 40,000 inhabitants! Before we speak, let’s mention it to complete the picture of Kopavogur.

Thanks to the selection, Breidablik was able to win the championship of the past. Striker Isak Thorvaldsson did not benefit from Norwich, but returned to Iceland as a free agent – and with his fourteen goals he helped secure the championship. Ale Isak has been in Rosenborg for a long time: the Norwegians paid 300 thousand euros for the new one. Copenhagen youth team Tsikavo paid another 336 for Galdur Gudmundsson, who is not the same in Breidablik’s first team. Such a question is also a sign of the high level of the academy.

Before the speech, Copenhagen and Breidablik met on the field this season, which they presented with a practical Hollywood plot.

It is worth it that Zorya is already the eighth opponent of “Bliskuchy” in this European season (and Ghent becomes the ninth). Such an important path for the team at the very bottom of the European table: they have to start from the weakest mini-tournament. The champions of San Marino, Andorri, Montenegro and Iceland played a flight tournament – ​​and Breidablik was lucky that they took place in Iceland. Wins over Tre Penne and Podgorica saw them beat Shamrock Rovers in the first stage of the Champions League.

And then there was Copenhagen, where the Icelanders scored three goals against Orri Oscarsson, a young and promising Icelandic striker. After the game, Orri went to coach Breidablik and they hugged. Why? No, not because Orri also graduated from the Breidablik Academy – he moved to Denmark from the provincial Grotti. And the fact that Breidablik’s coach is Father Orri! Oscar Thorvaldsson discovered Orrry back in Grotti (after bringing him into professional competition for the first time in 14 years), after which their paths parted – and so dramatically they started over.

Zagalom, Breidablik flew from Copenhagen to LJ, then from Zrinski to LK – and then two victories over Macedonian Struga brought him to the Conference League group.

Winning the championship has become, among other things, an urge for Breydablik to work in the same way as to break the reality of Milan: to strengthen its warehouse with a weak eye on the team’s resources. You ask why the teams hesitate, what resource is even more modest than that of the Icelandic negrande? Let’s just say it’s not far.

Clement Olsen was born near the village of Runavik and may have earned 15 stones for the same team. Within an hour he became the top scorer not only of Runavik, but of the entire Faroese league and national team. Olsen won the top scorer list six times this season, but once without becoming champions: FC Runavik won the singles title in 2007, when Clement was still young.

On the axis, Breidablik, like the fate of the past, did with Olsen what Bayern did with Kane: lure the expected forward, perform ambitious tasks. It is true that the “Brilliant” club was born without buying the Faroe Islands: he found it for rent on the river and recently moved on.

I can’t even name this mega-successful thing. Brayblock and still far from winning the title: for the round before the end of the 2023 championship, Vin is 23 points ahead of champion Vikingur and at the end of the match with Stjarnan in third place. Olsen has only scored six goals this season, often sitting on the lava, but there is one big “alo”.

In the first round of the group stage, LK Clement scored with a double, and Tel Aviv Maccabi iced their field and lost 3:2. Yet international evidence is invaluable, and Olsen is just shy of hundreds of international matches in the national team and club warehouse. By the way, I’m not old yet: I’m not even 33 years old. The defense of Dawn deserves special respect for the Faroe Islands.

Cream from Olsen, in “Bliskuchoy” there is only one foreign gravet. Another Faroese, Patrick Johannesen, just doesn’t want to go on the field. Zagalom, despite all the respect for Icelandic culture, Zagalom and football, for the academy club and for other acceptance speeches, you should know that Breidablik is a very average team.

In a recent championship match, Breidablik scored five. As you know, Icelanders sometimes broadcast their matches live on YouTube

What can we say about their greatest player, striker Stefan Sigurdarson – he scored 13 goals in the first 18 games of the season despite not being in the starting line-up again – having already reached another Belgian division. Despite all the problems of Ukrainian football, Zorya has to deal with clubs of a completely different size in the transfer market, both inside and outside. Moreover, Breydablik is clearly declining: in the remaining six games there were five defeats, in which sixteen goals were conceded. Maccabi, who cares about everything, just relaxed early and thus won 3:0 until the 32nd quarter… Zagalom, Zorya is much stronger, and whatever the result, they both won against the Icelanders, albeit with bad luck .