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Ada Hegerberg named in Norway squad for Euro 2022 after five-year international absence

Lyon forward Ada Hegerberg will play her first major international tournament in five years after being named in Norway's squad for Euro 2022. The 26-year-old stepped away from international duty in 2017 due to frustrations with the way women's football was regarded in Norway. Ad/> She missed the 2019 World Cup, when Norway lost in the quarter-finals to England, and said the treatment of women's football left her «mentally broken”.

Ada Hegerberg scores hat-trick on her return to the Norway squad after five years away from international football

After being away from the Norway national team for five years, Ada Hegerberg marked her return in sensational style by hitting a hat-trick as her side thrashed Kosovo 5-1 in their Women’s World Cup qualifying match. The 26-year-old Lyon forward walked away from international duty in 2017, saying there was a lack of respect for women players in Norway. Ad/> It didn’t take long for the highly decorated player — who was the first winner of the Women’s Ballon d’Or — to make her mark on her comeback, heading in Caroline Hansen’s cross after 20 minutes.

Marcus Rashford and Fikayo Tomori in? The 23 England players who should be on the plane to Qatar for World Cup 2022

After a decade of bitter controversy, the World Cup in Qatar is now only eight months away. Whatever happens once the tournament kicks off in November, it is destined to be remembered for issues off the pitch. Qatar’s human rights record and the appalling treatment of workers who have built much of its World Cup infrastructure have been in the spotlight again this week, with Norwegian Football Federation president Lise Klaveness telling the FIFA Congress: “In 2010 World Cups were awarded by FIFA in unacceptable ways with unacceptable consequences.

Qatar 2022 is here – a tainted World Cup barely worthy of the name

It was a moment, in its own way, as electric as anything that has been happening in the World Cup play-offs. That was when Norwegian FA president Lise Klaveness forced everyone at Fifa Congress in Doha to confront the true cost of these games.

Qatar World Cup: Harsh spotlight shone on human rights issues as Norwegian FA president gives scathing speech at FIFA Congress

By Jack Bantock, CNN

So, Qatar 2022 is really happening then; World Cup draw takes centre stage – The Warm-Up

FRIDAY'S BIG STORIES So this is really happening then? Ad/> Today, the draw for the group stages of the World Cup in Qatar will be made. World CupWorld Cup draw LIVE: Build-up as teams discover fate for QatarAN HOUR AGO Yesterday, Gianni Infantino, president of FIFA and grown man of fully 52 years, stood up in front of FIFA's congress in Qatar and compared himself to Nelson Mandela. And also to Gandhi.

FIFA and Qatar criticised over LGBTQ rights and worker safety before World Cup draw

World Cup host Qatar and FIFA received scathing criticism from within soccer on Thursday, a day before the tournament’s draw.

FIFA Faces New Attack Over Rights In World Cup Host Qatar

Lingering divisions over FIFA's decision to hold the World Cup in Qatar overshadowed the annual congress of football's world governing body on Thursday, forcing its president Gianni Infantino to insist that the event had already brought change to the Arab state. Just 235 days from the start of the first World Cup in the Middle East, a rare female voice in international football stood up at the congress to state that awarding the event to Qatar 12 years ago had been "unacceptable" because of its human rights record.

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Ada Hegerberg named in Norway squad for Euro 2022 after five-year international absence

Ada Hegerberg scores hat-trick on her return to the Norway squad after five years away from international football

Marcus Rashford and Fikayo Tomori in? The 23 England players who should be on the plane to Qatar for World Cup 2022

Qatar 2022 is here – a tainted World Cup barely worthy of the name

Qatar World Cup: Harsh spotlight shone on human rights issues as Norwegian FA president gives scathing speech at FIFA Congress

So, Qatar 2022 is really happening then; World Cup draw takes centre stage – The Warm-Up

FIFA and Qatar criticised over LGBTQ rights and worker safety before World Cup draw

FIFA Faces New Attack Over Rights In World Cup Host Qatar