Norway won against New Zealand in a friendly game in Marbella on Friday. Amalie Eikeland did and scored the only goal after nine minutes. Information that was not supposed to come out.
the Norwegian league has said nothing publicly about the match would be played, and thought that they agreed with the opponents that they would do the same thing. But in new zealand the association's website appeared a long match report up.
" We were a little bit surprised that New Zealand put it out with the result, scorer and everything. It would not be written something about this before, after or during the match, " says coach Martin Sjögren to PLEASE
over to the match were cleared.
He wanted to test the things that gruppmotståndarna in the world CHAMPIONSHIP for two months, France, Nigeria, and south Korea, would not be able to see.
– Now before the world CUP is spying everyone on each other. We wanted to try different things. For example, if we need to make goals and it's only ten minutes left. There is a difference between practicing it in training and on match, " says Sjogren told the newspaper.
that the secrecy would be a pr stunt, but says with a smile:
" maybe We should turn the matches more often. We got more attention than when we won the Algarve Cup.
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