Sa Viking FK ya lashe gasar kwallon kafa ta Norway na farko tun cikin shekaru 34 a kakar da ta gabata, 'yan wasa da kociyoyi masu ƙarfin hali na mafarkin dare na Champions League sun samu daidai abin da suke so.

Kulob din Stavanger zai tafi Aston Villa ranar Laraba yana ɗauke da ƙarfi mai yawa — wasan su na ƙarshe na Champions League ya ƙare da draw mai ban sha'awa 3-3 da Bayern Munich, wasan da suka jagoranci 2-0 a rabin farko kafin buƙatar goal a karin lokaci don ceton maki.

Kyaftin Zlatko Tripic ya bayyana ji na wannan dare sosai. Yana magana da tashar Norway TV2 bayan wasan da Bayern Munich, mai shekaru 33 ya ce: "Zan iya buga ƙarin mintuna 90. Ina da alfahari sosai. Na jira shekaru 34 don wannan."

Haɗin gwiwa da babu wanda ya tsammani zai yi aiki

Tashin Viking ba shi da wata hanya daga labarin jagorancinsa na musamman. Kociyoyin gama gari Morten Jensen da Bjarte Lunde Aarsheim — dukansu tsohuwar mataimaka — sun karɓi ragamar tare a 2021 kuma sun kawo gasar a kakar da ta gabata. Suna kan gaban gasar ta Norway kuma a wannan kakar da maki uku fiye da Bodo/Glimt, ko da yake Viking sun buga wasan ƙari.

Aarsheim, wanda ya yi mafi yawan aikin wasan sa a kulob din, ya bayyana tsarin ga shirin BBC Euro Leagues. Ya ce: "Labari ne na musamman. An haife mu masu son Viking, mun buga a Viking. Muna aiki tare a matsayin mataimaka kuma aikin mafarki na kula da Viking ya zo. Muka ce bari mu yi tare."

A wata hirar daban da The Guardian, Aarsheim ya bayyana asalin kulob din da kalaman mamaki: "A gare mu, Viking shi ne Barcelona. Dole ne 'yan wasa su gane cewa muna ganin Viking fiye da kulob. A zukatanmu, shi ne mafi kyawun ƙungiya a duniya."

Jensen, wanda aka yi masa rajista a matsayin ɗan wasa a Viking ba tare da taɓa bayyana a tawagar farko ba, ya yi magana game da son ƙarfin zuciya na biyu don tafiya a kan al'ada. Ya ce: "Idan ka ɗan ƙarfafa kai wajen tafiya akan halin da ya saba, za ka iya cimma manyan abubuwa. Idan za ka bi kuma ka yi abin da kowa yake yi, watakila za mu zama kwafi mara kyau. Don haka yanzu muna farin ciki a nan kuma muna son aiki tare."

Shiga kai tsaye zuwa zurfin

Wannan shine mataki na farko na rukunin Turai na Viking tun daga UEFA Cup na 2005-06 — tsallake kai tsaye zuwa gasar mafi martaba a nahiyar. Jadawalin matakin rukuni ya haɗa da wasanni da Aston Villa, Atletico Madrid, da Napoli, da wasan gida da Bayern Munich.

Jensen ya kira jadawalin wasanni "cikakken buffe". Ya ce: "Za mu je Ingila, za mu je Jamus, za mu je Italia, za mu je Spain. Za mu je Napoli, filin wasa na tsoho na Diego Maradona, da Atletico Madrid za mu fuskanci tawagar Diego Simeone. Kuma ba shakka Aston Villa ma — Yan Norway suna da sha'awa sosai da kwallon kafa ta Ingila, kuma tsohuwar mataimakin koci namu Pal Fjall shi ne kocin set-pieces a can."

Aarsheim ya yarda da irin jin rashin gaskiya na wannan tafiya. Ya ce: "Yana kusa da rashin gaskiya ne. Mun yi magana game da watakila zuwa Conference League don koyo, sannan UEFA Europa League. Kuma sai muka tsallake kai tsaye zuwa mafi kyawun biki da ya taɓa kasancewa."

Daga faɗuwa zuwa kololuwa

Hanyar Viking zuwa wannan matsayi ba ta kasance ba tare da matsaloli masu tsanani ba. A cikin 2017, a ƙarƙashin manajan Ingilishi Ian Burchnall, kulob din ya fadi zuwa ƙasa ƙaragar na farko a cikin shekaru 31 — lokaci mai wahala wanda ya kasance yana cike da kashe kuɗi da yawa a kan 'yan wasa waɗanda ba su cika ba.

Amsar ita ce komawa tushe. Kocin tsohon Bjarne Berntsen, wanda ya taɓa kula da kulob din daga 1992 zuwa 1995, ya dawo don kamfen na ƙaramar gasar a 2018 tare da Aarsheim da Jensen a matsayin mataimakai. Sun sami ci gaba a ƙoƙarin farko kuma sun ɗaga kofin Norway na 2019 — kyautarsu ta farko tun 2001.

An kori Berntsen ba tsammani bayan wuri na shida a 2020, tare da mataimakai biyu masu shiga matsayin. Shakku ya yaɗu sosai. Lars Risan, mai son Viking da podcaster, ya gaya wa BBC Radio 5 Live: "Mutane suna dariya ko suna tambaya. Sun gano yadda suke son yin hakan kuma suka makala da shi. Dukkansu daga Stavanger ne kuma suna son kulob."

Bayan wurare na uku a 2021 da 2022, biyu suka jagoranci tawagar zuwa gasar a kakar da ta gabata a rana ta ƙarshe, suka doke Valerenga 5-1 a gida suka zarce Bodo/Glimt da maki ɗaya — suka kawo ƙarshen fari da ya faro daga 1991.

Kyaftin wanda ya dawo

Jigon tashin Viking shi ne Tripic kansa. Dan wasan da aka haife shi a Croatia ya shiga nan da nan bayan faɗuwar 2017, yana zuwa daga kulob na Moldova Sheriff Tiraspol. Ya taɓa lashe gasar Norway sau biyu da Molde a 2011 da 2012.

Risan ya ce: "Labari ne mai kyau. Mun fado a 2017 kuma babban mamaki ne lokacin da Zlatko ya bayyana. Shi ne dan wasan muhimmi, wanda ba mu tsammani za mu iya sayan ba. Amma ya yi sha'awar ra'ayin ɗaukar kulob zuwa wani abu mai girma da kasancewa wani ɓangare na kyakkyawar labari."

Tripic ya ci burin nasara a wasan karshe na kofin 2019 da Haugesund, ya bar don kulob na Turkiyya Goztepe a 2020, kuma ya dawo bayan watanni 18. Tun ya dawo, ya kai lambobi biyu a burin da taimako a wasannin kakar uku masu jerin jere — nasara da babu ɗan wasan Viking da ya taɓa cimma a baya.

Da Bayern Munich, ya taimaka samar da burina biyu ciki har da daidaituwar ƙarshen lokaci mai mahimmanci — sabon babi na labarin dawowa wanda, kamar yadda Risan ya ce, "ya mayar da Viking a saman tebur."