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Norwegian women's football head coach Martin Sjogren has been axed after the team's humiliating European Championship group stage defeat to England, the national federation announced on Tuesday.
By Sana Noor Haq, CNN
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”.
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.
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.
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.
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.