Golden Goal (TV series)
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Golden Goal is a comedy talkshow about sports, hosted by Johan Golden
and Henrik Elvestad on Norwegian TV2
. Golden Goal is a show for all those who love sports, and for all those who haven't yet realised that they do.
Golden Goal is a late night talkshow aired weekly on TV2 Zebra
(Tuesday 22:30), and TV2 (Friday 23:10). The show has gained a solid position among the Norwegian viewers, and is currently – in its 3rd season - holding a strong market share of about 35 %.
(alpine skiing) and Kjetil André Aamodt
(alpine skiing), Ole Einar Bjørndalen
(biathlon), Andreas Thorkildsen
(javelin), Marit Bjørgen
(cross country skiing) and Anders Jacobsen
(ski jump) to evergreen sporting heroes such as Johann Olav Koss
(skating), Gunde Svan
(cross country skiing), Thomas Ravelli
(football), Jan Boklöv
(ski jump) and Thomas Alsgaard
(cross country skiing). In addition the show has been guested by popular Norwegian TV commentators the likes of Davy Wathne (TV2) and Arne Scheie
(NRK), and profiled coaches and sports personalities such as Nils Arne Eggen
(Rosenborg
manager), Åge Hareide
(former national coach, Viking Fk manager), Ståle Solbakken
(FC København coach) and John Shittu (football agent).
• High points such as Norway's unlikely World Cup win against Brazil
in 1998, and Bruce Grobbelaar
s European Cup-winning spaghetti legs of 1984.
• Thrillers such as the Norwegian handball team beating the invincible girls from East Germany in 1986, and the cross country skiing drama when Oddvar Brå
broke his skiing pole and ultimately shared his victory with Russia's Savyalov.
• Comic low points such as Erik Thorstvedt
's devastating debut as a Tottenham
goalkeeper in 1989, goalie Bjarte Flem
's infamous own goal, and coach Harald Aabrekk
s embarrassing dive towards the end of a match, pretending to be "dead" in order to waste time.
To make a proper remake of these great and not-so-great moments, Johan invites the protagonists themselves to partake in the re-investigation. The decisive penalty of the Norway-Brazil World Cup match was recreated by the help of Kjetil Rekdal
(penalty taker), Egil Drillo Olsen (coach), Nils Johan Semb
(assistant coach) and Arne Scheie
(sports commentator). In the remake of Norway's handball win against DDR, Johan re-instated the entire Norwegian team dating from 1986, a set of 10 original heroes including the coach and the back-when TV commentators.
At times the actual protagonists are somewhat difficult to get by, as in the remake of international player Svein Grøndalen
's brutal meeting with a moose. Whereas Grøndalen played himself, Johan stepped up to the plate to portray the angry moose.
and Europe
to visit and spend a day with international footballers, athletes and childhood heroes such as Morten Gamst Pedersen
, Henning Solberg
, Aksel Lund Svindal
, Ailo Gaup, Jørn Andersen
and Preben Elkjær. Henrik often gets a crack at their sport – on visiting Henning Solberg during the shakedown to "Rally Catalunya
" this year, Henrik got to take a spin in Solberg's car himself (after having congested the engine a couple of times). He also tried to impress Gamst Pedersen with his keepy-uppie, with only partial success.
Henrik not only visits highly successful Scandinavian athletes. In spring 2007 he went to Scotland
to visit the lowest paid Norwegian professional – Carl Erik Thywissen, earning £ 10 a week playing for Great Britain
's lousiest league club, East Stirlingshire F.C.
. That is, it was said to be the lousiest, until recently. After the segment was aired on Golden Goal, a Norwegian supporter branch was established and grew quickly to become the third biggest supporter club in Norway for a British team. This sudden interest and warming attention is said to have given the club a vital injection this season, making East Stirlingshire a midtable team and hopefully securing them a continued stay in the Scottish league system.
, a sport for giants on the Canary Isles, bobsleigh
s doing 125 km/h, reindeer racing in 30 below zero, boomerang
throwing, Australian Rules football, polo
, cricket
, Morrisdancing, rugby
and the noble art of streaking
are amongst the activities he has tried so far.
s lets us in on Paul Gascoigne
's crazy antics, Lasse Kjus
and Kjetil André Aamodt
tell on each other's secret fears, and Erland Johnsen
lets us know what Vinnie Jones
really was up to.
, gymnastics
, weightlifting
and kayaking
. The celebrities include Norwegian actors, comedians, musicians, a priest, tv-presenters amongst others.
Johan Golden
Johan Golden is a Norwegian comedian, musician, politician and radio and television presenter. He became known through the radio programme XL, and later through the television programme En L.U.N...
and Henrik Elvestad on Norwegian TV2
TV 2 (Norway)
TV 2 is the largest commercial television station in Norway. Over 30% of the time Norwegians spend watching TV is spent watching TV 2. The station has 65% of the market for TV commercials in Norway....
. Golden Goal is a show for all those who love sports, and for all those who haven't yet realised that they do.
Golden Goal is a late night talkshow aired weekly on TV2 Zebra
TV2 Zebra
TV 2 Zebra is a Norwegian television channel showing entertainment programmes, interactive programmes and live sport. The channel started as TV 2 Xtra in 2004. TV 2 Zebra is the sixth largest television channel in Norway....
(Tuesday 22:30), and TV2 (Friday 23:10). The show has gained a solid position among the Norwegian viewers, and is currently – in its 3rd season - holding a strong market share of about 35 %.
Guests
Each week Johan invites a high profile guest for the show's main interview. Johan portrays his guests in a thorough, curious and feelgood fashion, the main emphasis being on conveying why we are such a big fan of theirs. The guests range from current/recent athletes such as Aksel Lund SvindalAksel Lund Svindal
Aksel Lund Svindal is a World Cup alpine ski racer from Kjeller. He is a two-time winner of the overall , an Olympic gold medalist in Super G at the 2010 Winter Olympics, and a four-time World Champion in downhill, giant slalom, and super combined .-Career:As of...
(alpine skiing) and Kjetil André Aamodt
Kjetil André Aamodt
Kjetil André Aamodt is a Norwegian former alpine ski racer, and is the most decorated in history....
(alpine skiing), Ole Einar Bjørndalen
Ole Einar Bjørndalen
Ole Einar Bjørndalen is a Norwegian professional biathlete. He is often regarded as one of the greatest athletes of all time. In 1992, he won his first career medal at the junior world championships. A year later In 1993, after winning a record three junior world championship titles, Bjørndalen...
(biathlon), Andreas Thorkildsen
Andreas Thorkildsen
Andreas Thorkildsen is a Norwegian javelin thrower, born in Kristiansand. He is the first male javelin thrower in history to be European champion, World champion and Olympic champion...
(javelin), Marit Bjørgen
Marit Bjørgen
Marit Bjørgen is a Norwegian cross country skier and triple olympic champion from Midtre Gauldal, Norway. Bjørgen is the most successful sprinter in Cross-Country World Cup history, with twenty-four victories. She is ranked first in the all-time Cross-Country World Cup rankings with forty-eight...
(cross country skiing) and Anders Jacobsen
Anders Jacobsen (ski jumper)
Anders Jacobsen is a Norwegian ski jumper, representing Ringkollen Skiklubb, and the youngest Norwegian to have won the Four Hills Tournament. He has competed since 2003.-Early career:...
(ski jump) to evergreen sporting heroes such as Johann Olav Koss
Johann Olav Koss
Johann Olav Koss is a former speed skater from Norway, considered to be one of the best in history, and current assistant coach of Norway's speed skating team.-Biography:...
(skating), Gunde Svan
Gunde Svan
Gunde Svan is a former Swedish cross-country skier and auto racing driver. During his career he won a total of four gold, one silver and one bronze medals at the Winter Olympics...
(cross country skiing), Thomas Ravelli
Thomas Ravelli
Thomas Ravelli is a retired Swedish footballer who played as a goalkeeper.His 21-year professional career was almost exclusively associated with Öster and Göteborg, for whom he amassed Allsvenskan totals of 430 games....
(football), Jan Boklöv
Jan Boklöv
Jan Mauritz Boklöv is one of the most successful Swedish ski jumpers of all time, probably only rivaled by Sven Selånger. He won the World Cup in 1988/89, and dominated the Swedish championships in the late 1980s. He is however most known for inventing the V-style, which has been the standard...
(ski jump) and Thomas Alsgaard
Thomas Alsgaard
Thomas Alsgaard is a retired Norwegian cross-country skier. Alsgaard is regarded by many as the best performer of the skate-style in cross-country skiing and many of today's best skiers have studied his technique...
(cross country skiing). In addition the show has been guested by popular Norwegian TV commentators the likes of Davy Wathne (TV2) and Arne Scheie
Arne Scheie
Arne Scheie is a sports commentator, with football and ski jumping as his specialities.He started working in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation in 1972, and started commenting the Four Hills Tournament in 1973...
(NRK), and profiled coaches and sports personalities such as Nils Arne Eggen
Nils Arne Eggen
Nils Arne Eggen is the most successful coach in the history of Norwegian football. He is best known as the manager for Rosenborg in the period 1988–97 and 1999–2002...
(Rosenborg
Rosenborg
Rosenborg may refer to:Denmark:* Rosenborg Castle, a castle in Copenhagen, DenmarkNorway:* Rosenborg, Trondheim, a place in Trondheim, Norway* Rosenborg BK, an association football club based in Trondheim, Norway...
manager), Åge Hareide
Åge Hareide
Åge Fridtjof Hareide is a Norwegian football manager and former player. He is currently the manager of Viking FK.-Playing career:During his playing career, Hareide played for Hødd, Molde, Manchester City and Norwich City....
(former national coach, Viking Fk manager), Ståle Solbakken
Ståle Solbakken
Ståle Solbakken is a Norwegian football coach and a former player. He was named 2004 Norwegian Manager of the Year, and has won five Danish Superliga championships with Copenhagen....
(FC København coach) and John Shittu (football agent).
Remakes
Johan has taken on the mission to recreate some of the greatest moments in the history of sports - mainly in Norwegian terms, but also internationally. Together with the athletes themselves, he has done remakes of:• High points such as Norway's unlikely World Cup win against Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
in 1998, and Bruce Grobbelaar
Bruce Grobbelaar
Bruce David Grobbelaar is a former football goalkeeper and manager.He played for a number of clubs in a career which spanned for more than 20 years at professional level, most notably Liverpool during their dominant period in the 1980s and early 1990s.-Early years:In his teenage years, Grobbelaar...
s European Cup-winning spaghetti legs of 1984.
• Thrillers such as the Norwegian handball team beating the invincible girls from East Germany in 1986, and the cross country skiing drama when Oddvar Brå
Oddvar Brå
Oddvar Brå is a Norwegian former cross-country skier. He was among the best skiers in Norway, winner three times og World Cup winning 16 national championships, but his success in the major international championships was more modest...
broke his skiing pole and ultimately shared his victory with Russia's Savyalov.
• Comic low points such as Erik Thorstvedt
Erik Thorstvedt
Erik Thorstvedt is a former Norwegian professional football goalkeeper. He won 97 caps for the Norwegian national team, and was the starter in goal at the 1994 FIFA World Cup....
's devastating debut as a Tottenham
Tottenham
Tottenham is an area of the London Borough of Haringey, England, situated north north east of Charing Cross.-Toponymy:Tottenham is believed to have been named after Tota, a farmer, whose hamlet was mentioned in the Domesday Book; hence Tota's hamlet became Tottenham...
goalkeeper in 1989, goalie Bjarte Flem
Bjarte Flem
Bjarte Flem is a former Norwegian football goalkeeper. He played for the Norwegian football club Tromsø I.L..He was immortalized for his mistake during a match against Sogndal I.L. in 1988, which was shown on live television. As Flem was about to throw the ball to a defender on his own team, he...
's infamous own goal, and coach Harald Aabrekk
Harald Aabrekk
Harald Olav Aabrekk is the head coach of the Norwegian Premiership club Sogndal. He is a former head coach for Tromsø, Brann, Haugesund and Vålerenga and he was the assistant coach for the Norwegian national football team from 1998-2003...
s embarrassing dive towards the end of a match, pretending to be "dead" in order to waste time.
To make a proper remake of these great and not-so-great moments, Johan invites the protagonists themselves to partake in the re-investigation. The decisive penalty of the Norway-Brazil World Cup match was recreated by the help of Kjetil Rekdal
Kjetil Rekdal
Kjetil André Rekdal is a Norwegian football coach and a former footballer. He is currently managing Aalesund in Norwegian Tippeligaen. His previous tenure was at Kaiserslautern of the 2...
(penalty taker), Egil Drillo Olsen (coach), Nils Johan Semb
Nils Johan Semb
Nils Johan Semb was the coach of the Norwegian national football team from 1998 to 2003, presiding over 68 matches.He led his team to the 2000 European Football Championship...
(assistant coach) and Arne Scheie
Arne Scheie
Arne Scheie is a sports commentator, with football and ski jumping as his specialities.He started working in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation in 1972, and started commenting the Four Hills Tournament in 1973...
(sports commentator). In the remake of Norway's handball win against DDR, Johan re-instated the entire Norwegian team dating from 1986, a set of 10 original heroes including the coach and the back-when TV commentators.
At times the actual protagonists are somewhat difficult to get by, as in the remake of international player Svein Grøndalen
Svein Grøndalen
Svein Grøndalen is a retired Norwegian footballer.He was born in Halden, and as a youngster he lived in Halden, Drammen, Halden again, and Hunndalen. He played youth football for Kvik Halden and Raufoss,and senior football for Raufoss, Rosenborg, Moss and Ås...
's brutal meeting with a moose. Whereas Grøndalen played himself, Johan stepped up to the plate to portray the angry moose.
Portraits
Henrik has travelled across NorwayNorway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
and Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
to visit and spend a day with international footballers, athletes and childhood heroes such as Morten Gamst Pedersen
Morten Gamst Pedersen
Morten Gamst Pedersen is a Norwegian footballer who plays for Blackburn Rovers and the Norway national football team.-Tromsø IL:...
, Henning Solberg
Henning Solberg
Henning Solberg is a Norwegian rally driver. Together with co-driver Ilka Minor, he currently competes in the World Rally Championship with Stobart M-Sport Ford. Solberg is the older brother of the 2003 world champion Petter Solberg....
, Aksel Lund Svindal
Aksel Lund Svindal
Aksel Lund Svindal is a World Cup alpine ski racer from Kjeller. He is a two-time winner of the overall , an Olympic gold medalist in Super G at the 2010 Winter Olympics, and a four-time World Champion in downhill, giant slalom, and super combined .-Career:As of...
, Ailo Gaup, Jørn Andersen
Jørn Andersen
Jørn Andersen is a Norwegian former professional footballer, currently in charge of German 2nd division club Karlsruher SC.-Norway:...
and Preben Elkjær. Henrik often gets a crack at their sport – on visiting Henning Solberg during the shakedown to "Rally Catalunya
Rally Catalunya
The Rally Catalunya is a rally competition on the World Rally Championship schedule. Now held on the wide, smooth and sweeping asphalt roads around the town of Salou, Catalonia, Spain, it was previously held around the region of Costa Brava...
" this year, Henrik got to take a spin in Solberg's car himself (after having congested the engine a couple of times). He also tried to impress Gamst Pedersen with his keepy-uppie, with only partial success.
Henrik not only visits highly successful Scandinavian athletes. In spring 2007 he went to Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
to visit the lowest paid Norwegian professional – Carl Erik Thywissen, earning £ 10 a week playing for Great Britain
Great Britain
Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...
's lousiest league club, East Stirlingshire F.C.
East Stirlingshire F.C.
East Stirlingshire Football Club is a Scottish football club originating in Falkirk. Founded in 1880, originally as Bainsford Britannia, the club changed to their current name a year later in 1881...
. That is, it was said to be the lousiest, until recently. After the segment was aired on Golden Goal, a Norwegian supporter branch was established and grew quickly to become the third biggest supporter club in Norway for a British team. This sudden interest and warming attention is said to have given the club a vital injection this season, making East Stirlingshire a midtable team and hopefully securing them a continued stay in the Scottish league system.
Exotic Sports
During the series, Henrik has visited, tried out and presented for the viewers a wide range of "exclusive" and "exotic" sports around the world. And all his fears and physical shortcomings come in the way. Canarian wrestlingCanarian wrestling
Canarian Wrestling is a form of folk wrestling, originally from the Canary Islands, where it is known as Lucha Canaria.-Description:Wrestlers start in the middle of a sand circle, called "terrero". The object is to make their opponent touch the sand with any part of their body, except the feet...
, a sport for giants on the Canary Isles, bobsleigh
Bobsleigh
Bobsleigh or bobsled is a winter sport in which teams of two or four make timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sled that are combined to calculate the final score....
s doing 125 km/h, reindeer racing in 30 below zero, boomerang
Boomerang
A boomerang is a flying tool with a curved shape used as a weapon or for sport.-Description:A boomerang is usually thought of as a wooden device, although historically boomerang-like devices have also been made from bones. Modern boomerangs used for sport are often made from carbon fibre-reinforced...
throwing, Australian Rules football, polo
Polo
Polo is a team sport played on horseback in which the objective is to score goals against an opposing team. Sometimes called, "The Sport of Kings", it was highly popularized by the British. Players score by driving a small white plastic or wooden ball into the opposing team's goal using a...
, cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
, Morrisdancing, rugby
Rugby union
Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...
and the noble art of streaking
Streaking
Streaking is the act of running nude through a public place.-History:On 5 July 1799, a Friday evening at 7 o'clock, a naked man was arrested at the Mansion House, London, and sent to the Poultry Compter...
are amongst the activities he has tried so far.
The Locker Room
When the match is over, the contest is won, and the cameras are turned off - what is really going on in the athletes' private sphere, "behind closed doors"? A number of famous sports personalities tell us their best stories – Erik ThorstvedtErik Thorstvedt
Erik Thorstvedt is a former Norwegian professional football goalkeeper. He won 97 caps for the Norwegian national team, and was the starter in goal at the 1994 FIFA World Cup....
s lets us in on Paul Gascoigne
Paul Gascoigne
Paul John Gascoigne , commonly referred to as Gazza, is a retired English professional footballer.Playing in the position of midfield, Gascoigne's career included spells at Newcastle United, Tottenham Hotspur, Lazio, Rangers, Middlesbrough, Everton and Gansu Tianma, where he scored at least a goal...
's crazy antics, Lasse Kjus
Lasse Kjus
Lasse Kjus is a retired Norwegian alpine skier who has won the overall World Cup twice, an Olympic gold medal, and several World Championships...
and Kjetil André Aamodt
Kjetil André Aamodt
Kjetil André Aamodt is a Norwegian former alpine ski racer, and is the most decorated in history....
tell on each other's secret fears, and Erland Johnsen
Erland Johnsen
Erland Johnsen is an retired Norwegian footballer and current manager.-Club career:His playing career began in Moss, and he later joined Bayern Munich as a professional...
lets us know what Vinnie Jones
Vinnie Jones
Vincent Peter "Vinnie" Jones is an English film actor and retired Welsh footballer.Born in Hertfordshire, England, Jones represented and captained the Welsh national football team, having qualified via a Welsh grandparent. He also previously played for Chelsea and Leeds United. As a member of the...
really was up to.
Challenges
In our segment type called "The Challenge" Henrik has invited a number of celebrities to give it a go at well known sports, such as athletics, divingDiving
Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, sometimes while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a recreational pastime.Diving is one...
, gymnastics
Gymnastics
Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and balance. Internationally, all of the gymnastic sports are governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique with each country having its own national governing body...
, weightlifting
Powerlifting
Powerlifting is a strength sport. It resembles the sport of Olympic weightlifting, as both disciplines involve lifting weights in three attempts. Powerlifting evolved from a sport known as 'odd lifts' which followed the same three attempt format but used a wide variety of events akin to Strongman...
and kayaking
Kayaking
Kayaking is the use of a kayak for moving across water. Kayaking and canoeing are also known as paddling. Kayaking is distinguished from canoeing by the sitting position of the paddler and the number of blades on the paddle...
. The celebrities include Norwegian actors, comedians, musicians, a priest, tv-presenters amongst others.
Bloopers
In the recurring studio segment "This week's Top 3", Henrik presents bloopers from all kinds of sports. He sheds a weekly light on comic mishaps, presenting lists such as:- "So you thought you came in first?", "Audience, stay where you are", "Ouch! I'm glad that wasn’t me" and "Hey goalie, what the !?D"# %&% were you thinking?".