Football: Brazil, Norway record 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 1^st, 2011.