Last Update: 19 July 2022, 19:09 IST
Norwegian women’s football head coach Martin Sjögren has been ousted following the team’s humiliating defeat in the European Championship group stage against England, the national federation announced on Tuesday. England registered the biggest win in European Championship history after beating Norway 8–0 on 11 July.
“We are all disappointed with the performance at the European Championships this summer,” Federation President Lise Klavnes said in a statement.
Medal ambitions were nurtured by the Scandinavian following the return of top scorer Ada Hegerberg after five years of self-exile to protest the inequality of treatment given to the men’s and women’s teams by the Norwegian Federation. The federation said 45-year-old Swede Sjögren and his assistant Anders Jakobson took office in January 2017 but had one year left by mutual consent.
Clevness said she did not want to indicate individual responsibilities, but would extend the contract for the two coaches until 2023. World Needed to deliver results with cups. Under coach Sjogren, Norway had already been eliminated in the group stage at Euro 2017, before failing in the quarter-finals at the World Cup in France two years later.
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