Soccer World Cup 2011 / Norway

This article is about the Norwegian national soccer team at the 2011 Women's World Cup in Germany. Norway was number 9 in the FIFA world rankings before the World Cup and has taken part in all previous World Cups. In 1995 the Norwegians became the first European team to win the title. Norway was also runner-up once and fourth twice. Germany has played the most international matches against Norway , and the earliest they could have met at the World Cup was in the semi-finals. For Norway, the World Cup was also a qualification for the 2012 Olympic Games in London, for which the two best European teams at the World Cup qualify.

qualification

Norway qualified for the World Cup with two wins (1-0 and 2-0) against Ukraine in the play-offs of the group winners after beating the Netherlands in the group stage . Isabell Herlovsen scored the most goals (9) for Norway, 6 of them in the 14-0 victory over Macedonia.

Group stage results

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	Norway	8th	7th	1	0	39: 02	22nd
2	Netherlands	8th	5	2	1	30: 07	17th
3	Belarus	8th	4th	1	3	17:14	13
4th	Slovakia	8th	2	0	6th	15:13	06th
5	Macedonia	8th	0	0	8th	03:68	00

October 24, 2009	Bekkestua	Norway	-	Netherlands	03: 0 (2: 0)
October 28, 2009	Skien	Norway	-	Slovakia	01: 0 (0: 0)
03/27/2010	Hønefoss	Norway	-	Macedonia	14: 0 (8: 0)
03/30/2010	Hrodna	Belarus	-	Norway	00: 5 (0: 2)
06/19/2010	Zwolle	Netherlands	-	Norway	02: 2 (1: 1)
06/23/2010	Skien	Norway	-	Belarus	03: 0 (1: 0)
08/21/2010	Senec	Slovakia	-	Norway	00: 4 (0: 3)
08/25/2010	Prilep	Macedonia	-	Norway	00: 7 (0: 4)

Squad for the World Cup

The squad for the World Cup was announced on June 10th (position assignment according to the FIFA squad list). The most experienced players were Trine Rønning with 113 and Ingvild Stensland from Champions League winner Olympique Lyon , who was not used in the final, with 102 international matches before the World Cup. Seven players were also used in 2007. All but three players were active in Norwegian clubs. The players have an average height of 1.69 m, Lisa-Marie Woods being the smallest at 1.56 m and Ingvild Stensland being the tallest at 1.76 m. Woods could not take part in the World Cup due to a hip injury. Was re-nominated Kristine Wigdahl Hegland , the 19-team U-11 June with the European Vice Champion was.

No.	player	Date of birth	society	International matches	International goals	World Cup games	World Cup 2011
							Sp.	Gates
1	Ingrid Hjelmseth	04/10/1980	Stabæk FK	048	000		3	0	0	0	0
12	Erika Espeseth Skarbø	06/12/1987	Arna-Bjørnar	017th	000	0 (2007)	1	0	0	0	0
21st	Caroline Knutsen	11/21/1983	Røa IL	004th	000		0	0	0	0	0
Defense
2	Nora Holstad Mountains	03/26/1987	Linköpings FC	008th	000		2	0	0	0	0
3	Maren Mjelde	11/06/1989	Arna-Bjørnar	035	001		3	0	1	0	0
7th	Trine Rønning	06/14/1982	Stabæk FK	116	020th	8 (2003, 2007)	3	0	0	0	0
8th	Runa Vikestad	08/13/1984	Kolbotn IL	015th	001		0	0	0	0	0
15th	Hedda Strand Gardsjord	06/28/1982	Røa IL	024	000		2	0	1	0	0
18th	Guro Knutsen Mienna	01/10/1985	Røa IL	032	003	2 (2007)	2	0	0	0	0
20th	Ingrid Ryland	05/29/1989	Arna-Bjørnar	007th	000		0	0	0	0	0
midfield
4th	Ingvild Stensland	08/03/1981	Olympique Lyon	105	005	6 (2007)	3	0	0	0	0
5	Marita Skammelsrud Lund	01/29/1989	Lillestrøm SK Kvinner	022nd	000		2	0	0	0	0
6th	Kristine Wigdahl Hegland	08/08/1992	Arna-Bjørnar	001	000		1	0	0	0	0
14th	Gry Tofte Ims	03/02/1986	Klepp IL	010	000		2	0	0	0	0
17th	Lene Mykjåland	02/20/1987	Røa IL	038	008th	3 (2007)	2	0	0	0	0
19th	Emilie Bosshard Haavi	06/16/1992	Røa IL	011	005		3	1	0	0	0
attack
9	Isabell Herlovsen	06/23/1988	Lillestrøm SK Kvinner	067	019th	4 (2007)	3	0	0	0	0
10	Cecilie Pedersen	09/14/1990	Avaldsnes IL	024	008th		3	0	0	0	0
11	Leni Larsen Kaurin	03/21/1981	VfL Wolfsburg	083	004th	5 (2007)	2	0	0	0	0
13	Madeleine Giske	09/14/1987	Arna-Bjørnar	019th	001	2 (2007)	2	0	0	0	0
16	Elise Thorsnes	08/14/1988	Røa IL	043	006th		3	1	1	0	0
Coaching staff
Landslagstrenere	Eli Landsem	March 22, 1962	Norges Fotballforbund	15th	1		3	0	0	0	0
Remarks: ↑ As of May 10, 2011 ↑ a b Status: July 6, 2011 after the game against Australia ↑ Status before the World Cup ↑ Subsequent nomination for the injured Lisa-Marie Woods ↑ a b As a player

preparation

In preparation for the tournament, two friendlies were initially scheduled. A third took place on June 20th in Austria, where the US team had been since June 15th.

date	place	opponent	Result	Goal scorers	particularities
May 19, 2011	Nadderud Stadium ( Bærum )	Finland	5: 1 (2: 0)	Elise Thorsnes (3), Cecilie Pedersen (2); Anna-Kaisa Rantanen
June 16, 2011	Mainz ( Germany )	Germany	0: 3 (0: 0)	-; Simone Laudehr , Alexandra Popp (2)
June 20, 2011	Leogang ( Austria )	United States	3: 1 (0: 0)	Emilie Bosshard Haavi , Lene Mykjåland , Cecilie Pedersen ; Carli Lloyd	The game took place in camera, the US women competed in training clothes. According to the Norwegian Association, it was an unofficial game [1] .

Group games

In Group D, the Norwegians met the newcomer to the World Cup, Equatorial Guinea , who played a competitive match outside of Africa for the first time and played a non-African team for the first time in a competitive match. The Norwegians started furiously, Haavi hit the post in the second minute . Other opportunities soon followed, but they did not lead to a goal either. After a quarter of an hour, the newcomer to the World Cup made the game more open and had many good chances, which, however, also lacked precision. It was only shortly before half-time that the Norwegians had a chance to score again. The Northern Europeans were also overweight at the beginning of the second half and only after 20 minutes did the Africans come back into play. When they started to have calf cramps, it seemed as if Norway were in better condition, but an open blow exchange continued with chances on both sides. Haavi, the youngest player on the field, took advantage of one of these chances to score a 1-0 winner in the 84th minute. After that, Norway was content to keep the narrow lead.

In the second game, Norway met the 2010 South American champions and Brazil runners-up . The Norwegians initially had more of the game, but without creating any scoring chances. In the 22nd minute Marta then made it 1-0 after an illegal use against Berge . From then on, the world soccer player was whistled by the audience with every ball contact. The whistles only subsided when Marta first prepared the 2-0 in the 46th minute and then scored the 3-0 himself in the 48th minute. After that, the Norwegians tried to score the next goal, as the goal difference can still be important for them, but failed again and again due to the Brazilian defense. They could only spread danger for the Brazilian goal in corners, but then often stood in their own way, as they populated the six-yard area with several players. In the end, the Brazilians managed the result that meant they made it to the quarter-finals. Against Brazil, it was Norway's fourth defeat in their eighth game, with two draws - one lost on penalties - and two wins.

In the final group game against Australia , the 2010 Asian champions , Norway had to win to move into the quarter-finals, as the Australians had the better goal difference. Norway have played against Australia four times and won three times, one game ended in a draw. Norway also took a 1-0 lead through Elise Thorsnes in the 56th minute, but it was 1: 1 straight away. After that, both teams had a chance to win the game. This was achieved by Kyah Simon in the 87th minute, who had already scored the 1-1 after three minutes earlier Stensland hit the crossbar with a free kick.

This is the first time that Norway has been eliminated from the preliminary round of a World Cup and has not qualified for the 2012 Olympic Games , in which only the two best European teams from the World Cup take part in addition to England. Germany, France and Sweden were able to qualify for the quarter-finals. The two goals and five goals conceded are also a negative record for the Norwegian team - only once has a European team scored fewer goals and a worse goal difference in a World Cup preliminary round: Denmark 1999 with 1: 8 goals.

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Brazil	7-0	9
2	Australia	5: 4	6th
3	Norway	2: 5	3
4th	Equatorial Guinea	2: 7	0

Wednesday, June 29, 2011, 3 p.m. in Augsburg
Norway	-	Equatorial Guinea	1: 0 (0: 0)
Sunday, July 3, 2011, 6:15 p.m. in Wolfsburg
Brazil	-	Norway	3: 0 (1: 0)
Wednesday, July 6, 2011, 6 p.m. in Leverkusen
Australia	-	Norway	2: 1 (0: 0)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Macedonia's greatest defeat
2. ↑ Completely VM-tropp clear
3. ↑ Uttak kvinnelandslagets tropp til VM Tyskland 2011
4. ↑ FIFA.com: World Cup squad Norway ( Memento of the original from June 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ sportschau.de: Norway has to do without Woods (accessed on June 23, 2011)
6. ↑ fotball.no: Woods ikke til VM (Norwegian)
7. ↑ Landslag debutant in VM-troppen
8. ↑ numbers and positions according squad list of FIFA Archive Link ( Memento of the original on 25 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ↑ http://www.fotball.no/System-pages/TabellTermin/?tournamentId=39900&year=2011
10. ↑ US WNT Arrives in Austria to Prepare for 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup ( Memento of the original from June 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
11. ↑ Norwegians win World Cup test against USA
12. ↑ Live ticker for the game Brazil - Norway