Bolt training with Norwegian side Stromsgodset

Usain Bolt is to spend a week training with Norwegian top-flight side Stromsgodset.

The eight-time Olympic gold medallist trained with the team for the first time yesterday and is due to play a training match against Norway Under-19s next Tuesday, the club said.

The 31-year-old Jamaican sprinter, who retired after last year’s World Championships in London, has already trained with German side Borussia Dortmund and South African club Mamelodi Sundowns this year.

Bolt, a Puma ambassador, was accompanied in Norwaybythecompany’schief executive Bjorn Gulden, a former Stromsgodset player. Puma are the club’s kit supplier and Stromsgodset said the link-up with Bolt was down to their relationship with the company.

The club’s sporting director, former Norway striker Jostein Flo, said on Stromsgodset’s website: “We think it’s amazingly fun that Usain Bolt chooses to come here to Stromsgodset to train.

“He is a champion, one of the greatest athletes of all time and, of course, we can learn a lot from him. Usain Bolt is furthermore a particular- ly charismatic and energetic type and his presence will undoubtedly be a great inspiration for players, coaches and the whole club.

“We want him to be given the opportunity to play in the training match.

“He is a good football player, otherwise he would not be training with us.”

Stromsgodset were Norwegian champions in 2013 when they were managed by former Celtic boss Ronny Deila.

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