HAMILTON, New Zealand — Norway striker and former Ballon d’Or winner Ada Hegerberg was seen strolling again into the tunnel moments earlier than her nation’s Women’s World Cup match in opposition to Switzerland on Tuesday, regardless of being named to the beginning lineup.
Initially listed as a doable substitute for the match, Sophie Roman Haug began in Hegerberg’s place as Norway’s striker.
The staff’s official Twitter account quoted nationwide staff physician Trygve Hunemo saying that “Ada Hegerberg got a feeling in the groin on the last sprint during the warm-up.”
Last yr’s European Championship marked Hegerberg’s return to worldwide soccer after beforehand not showing for Norway in 5 years. Following the 2017 European Championship, Hegerberg left the staff in protest of the unequal therapy of the boys’s and ladies’s squads by the Norwegian federation.
Hegerberg has essentially the most objectives of any present Norwegian participant (16) and has appeared for her nation 32 occasions.
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