Football: Brazil, Norway record wins
both opened their women’s World Cup campaigns with 1-0 wins.
MOENCHENGLADBACH:
Brazil and Norway lived up to their status as Group D favourites when they both opened their women’s World Cup campaigns with 1-0 wins. But the sport’s heavyweights were pushed hard by rivals Australia and debutantes Equatorial Guinea respectively in ties which wrapped up the first round of group matches. Brazil, the 2007 runners-up, needed a 54th-minute goal from Rosana to get past a young Australian side in Moenchengladbach, while earlier in Augsburg Emelie Haavi’s late goal ensured all three points for 1995 champions Norway.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 1st, 2011.
Brazil and Norway lived up to their status as Group D favourites when they both opened their women’s World Cup campaigns with 1-0 wins. But the sport’s heavyweights were pushed hard by rivals Australia and debutantes Equatorial Guinea respectively in ties which wrapped up the first round of group matches. Brazil, the 2007 runners-up, needed a 54th-minute goal from Rosana to get past a young Australian side in Moenchengladbach, while earlier in Augsburg Emelie Haavi’s late goal ensured all three points for 1995 champions Norway.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 1st, 2011.