Tottenham against Bodø/Glimt Free Live Stream (01.05.25): See the Europa League on Paramount Plus, time, TV channel for the semi -finals

Tottenham Hotspur, led by Brennan Johnson, will meet on Thursday, May 1, 2025 (5.05.2025) at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, England, Kasper Waisst Hogh and Norwegian Side Bodø/Glimt.

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You need to know the following:

What: UEFA Europa League, semi -finals

Who: Tottenham Hotspur against Bodø/Glimt

When: Thursday, April 17, 2025

Where: Old Trafford

Time: 15 PM et

TV: CBS Sports Network

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Here is a game preview of the Associated Press:

How was an unannounced Norwegian team from a tiny city north of the Arctic circle to one of the fairytale stories of European football?

For Bodø/Glimt, the transformation was underpinned by a combat pilot that developed mental techniques for his squadron before bombing missions in Libya.

Bjørn Mannsverk discovered a group of players who radiated negative energy and tended into a “collective mental breakdown” when he was asked to join the Backrooom employee of a team in early 2017, which was relegated in Norway's second stage.

His job as a “mental trainer” at Bodø/Glimt? So that the players can speak openly about their feelings, lower stress levels, change their attitudes and routines about things such as preparation and nutrition and remove the stigma in terms of intellectual training.

It was no longer important to win or lose. It was about following a philosophy and culture that was founded by Mannsverk, a former leader of the Royal Norwegian Air Force, which he was led to Afghanistan after the attacks of September 11 after the attacks of September 11 and Libya.

The results were exceptional.

After an immediate return to Norway's top division, the team -more than 1,000 kilometers north of Oslo in a fishing city, Bodø with around 55,000 inhabitants, conquered four of the country's last five league titles. It started in 2020 with a first in the history of a club founded in 1916.

Bodø/Glim has also achieved some major results in Europe in the past seasons-a 6-1 thrashing by Jose Mourinho's Roma in the Conference League 2021 and this year it is the first Norwegian association to reach the semi-finals of a large European competition.

The first leg against Tottenham in the Europa League will take place on Thursday in London. It is Bodø/Glim's biggest match ever.

“It's a fairy tale, almost a miracle,” said Mannsverk of Associated Press in a video interview. “How can you actually get a playoff of the Champions League and teams like Arsenal five years later from (Norway's) Second Division in 2017?

“But I think it is possible … if you have the right mentality and work hard over time.”

Meditation and Mannsverks Mantra

Mannsverk and others in his squadron were a pilot for active air force for more than 20 years and in 2010 were subjects from a mental training project, in which the focus was on meditation and “repeated boring things every day, but with 100% attention”.

It meant that when he was in Libya the following year, he had the mental ability to deal with the dangerous missions that he should record. The mantra of his squadron – “Train how you want to fight” – worked.

“Although I got strong feelings when my first bombs reached the goal and it was in hellish flames and fragments and everything,” he said, “it was as if it is okay that it is okay, that happens that I have to return and do my job.”

Since Bodø had a NATO air base until recently, it was simply a lucky coincidence that Bodø/Glim's leadership met with members of the squadron while looking for a “silver ball” -as Mannsverk put it -to improve the mental conditioning of the team.

After his appointment in 2018, a project was born and fully accepted by manager Kjetil Knutsen.

Bodø/Glimt has never looked back.

The “Bodø/Glimt Ring”

Mannsverk's fingerprints are in the entire behavior of the team, although he recognizes that players have given such a buy-in that they are now making decisions themselves.

Like a rotating line -up of eight captains to exchange management tasks. As if the players gather into a circle -Mannsverk calls the “Bodø/Glimt -ring” -after admitting a goal, discussing what happened and maintaining solidarity. Like the players, there are no specific goals, apart from the fact that they are the best version of themselves.

Inge Henning Andersen, Bodø/Glimts Chairman, informed the AP that midfielder Ulrik Saltnes retired because he used to suffered from stress -related stomach problems that flared up for matches. Saltnes opened with Mannsverk about his problems and “finally found a way out,” said Andersen.

The team plays in an intensity that exceeds its competitors, which players attribute to Mannsverk.

“I don't think it would be possible to play without Bjørn and the mental work that we do,” said Saltnes once the BBC.

Tottenham Manager Verzeclou joined Bodø/Glimt twice twice and lost on both occasions when he was responsible for Celtic in the conference league in 2022, and he nodded his opponent's mental strength when he was asked about his strengths.

“You have a really clear identity in the way you play,” said the Australian coach on Wednesday. “I think you have created a real resistance in the group, a mental resistance that regardless of who you play, whether this is in the Norwegian league or in the Champions League qualifiers or in the European or conference league, treat every opponent the same way.”

Bodø's long and dark winter

The Europa League campaign this season draws Bodø/Glimt widespread attention, especially for its location.

The team's Aspmyra stadium with a capacity of less than 9,000 is one of the northernmost in world football with a latitude of 67 degrees. Tourists came to the top of the Norway's west coast for a long time because it is a good place to see the northern lights.

Bodø, who described the European Capital of Culture in 2024, has less than an hour of sunlight in the shortest days, which means that players take dietary supplements to combat a lack of sunlight. In the long winters it can be bitterly cold and windy, which for opponents from other countries does hard trips.

Tottenham, one of the richest clubs in the world, begins on paper as a big favorite against Bodø/Glimt. The probable amount of almost 63,000 in Tottenham Hotspur Stadium for the game on Thursday will be larger than the population of Bodø.

“You would like to think that you are a small club and we do not evaluate (you),” replied a smiling Postecoglou to a leading question of a Norwegian reporter at the press conference before the game.

The English club has one of its worst seasons in a generation and is currently in the 20-team premier League 16 .. Bodø/Glimt gives a realistic shot at a surprise, as is produced in the monitoring of the Italian team Lazio in the quarter-finals.

So it is another chance that the club will write another astonishing chapter in its remarkable journey.

“We like to tell our story,” said Mannsverk. “Philosophy is a good thing. We know that it is difficult in football where there is so much money to give a trainer or a team the time. And it takes time to change and drill in mentality.

“This was not done overnight … but I am totally convinced that it will work more or less everywhere.”