Norwegian football fans are cheering again

[Raufoss]

After Norway's historic victory over Portugal yesterday I have been inspired to write the following "på norsk" to my Facebook friends:

"Norwegian football fans are cheering again."

Her er mitt forsøk:

Norske fotballfans heier igjen.

Would it be better to use "fotballsupportere" instead of "fotballfans"?

[EinarJ]

Trenger litt mer bakgrunn her, er det snakk om at et lag e.l. har vært langt nede, og nå begynner det å komme seg igjen?

Fotballsupportere er bedre, ja, men heier blir litt rart, hvis det ikke er meningen at du prøver å si at supporterne har sluttet å _HEIE_, og nå har begynt på igjen.

Juble er kanskje et bedre verb.

[Raufoss]

Trenger litt mer bakgrunn her, er det snakk om at et lag e.l. har vært langt nede, og nå begynner det å komme seg igjen?

It was Norway's victory over Portugal along with this article that inspired me to write what I did:

Football fans cheering again

Fotballsupportere er bedre, ja, men heier blir litt rart, hvis det ikke er meningen at du prøver å si at supporterne har sluttet å _HEIE_, og nå har begynt på igjen.

Juble er kanskje et bedre verb.

Takk for det!

[Raufoss]

Semb: - Helt utrolig

Egil Olsen og det norske landslaget har klatret nok en plass på FIFA-rankingen.

Egil Olsen and the Norwegian National Team has climbed another place in the FIFA rankings.

[Raufoss]

Portugal-Norge 1-0

Sekundet som ødela kvelden

Portugal-Norge 1-0: Ett sekunds uoppmerksomhet var nok. Nå må Drillos ta poeng borte mot Danmark.

Portugal-Norway 1-0: One seconds inattention was enough. Now Drillo must take points away against Denmark.

Football: Portugal - Norway 1-0

Norway's defense prevented favorites Portugal from dominating the Group H Euro 2012 qualifier in Lisboa Saturday evening, but a 53rd minute goal from Helder Postiga gave Portugal a 1-0 win.

Norway coach Egil "Drillo" Olsen summed up: - We must be able to score on the several chances we had in this match. They won deservedly, but we were not far behind.

Norway's keeper Rune Almenning Jarstein put on a good performance throughout the match.

Portugal, Denmark and Norway are level on 10 points at the top of the section having played five games apiece.

[Axystos]

Ja, det var synd. Hvis Norge hadde vunnet det, ville de være førsten i gruppen.

[Raufoss]

Ja, det var synd. Hvis Norge hadde vunnet det, ville de være førsten i gruppen.

Også en uavgjort ville ha holdt Norge på toppen av tabellen.

Forhåpentligvis kvinnelandslaget vil gi norskfotballsupportere mye å juble på i løpet av sommerens VM i Tyskland.

[Axystos]

Jeg visste ikke engang at det skulle være en VM for kvinner om to uker her i Tyskland.

[Raufoss]

Jeg visste ikke engang at det skulle være en VM for kvinner om to uker her i Tyskland.

KOMPLETT VM-TROPP KLAR

VM 2011 sparkes i gang i Tyskland 26. juni, og Norge spiller sin første kamp 29. juni, mot Ekvatorial Guinea.

Se terminliste for VM 2011 her

GROUP D

Match Date Time Venue Home - Visitor

7 29/06 18:15 Moenchengladbach Brazil - Australia

8 29/06 15:00 Augsburg Norway - Equatorial Guinea

15 03/07 18:15 Wolfsburg Brazil - Norway

16 03/07 14:00 Bochum Australia - Equatorial Guinea

23 06/07 18:00 Frankfurt/Main Equatorial Guinea - Brazil

24 06/07 18:00 Leverkusen Australia - Norway

[Raufoss]

NRKS VM-PROGRAM

Her følger kampene som NRK pr i dag planlegger å sende fra sommerens VM-sluttspill:

26.06.11 kl1800 Tyskland – Canada NRK1/NRK2
27.06.11 kl1800 Mexico – England NRK2
28.06.11 kl1500 Colombia – Sverige NRK1
28.06.11 kl1815 USA – Korea NRK2
29.06.11 kl1500 Norge – Ekvatorial Guinea NRK1 og P1
29.06.11 kl1815 Brasil – Australia NRK2
30.06.11 kl1800 Canada – Frankrike NRK1
30.06.11 kl2045 Tyskland – Nigeria (kan bli endret pga andre programmer)
01.07.11 kl1815 New Zealand – England NRK2
02.07.11 kl1400 Korea – Sverige NRK1
02.07.11 kl1800 USA – Colombia NRK2
03.07.11 kl1400 Australia - Ekvatorial Guinea NRK1
03.07.11 kl1815 Brasil – Norge NRK1/NRK2 og P1
05.07.11 kl1815 England – Japan NRK2
05.07.11 kl2045 Frankrike – Tyskland NRK2
06.07.11 kl1800 Australia – Norge NRK1/NRK2 og P1
06.07.11 kl2045 Sverige – USA NRK2
09.07.11 kl1800 1A – 2B
09.07.11 kl2048 1B – 2A
10.07.11 kl1300 1C – 2D
10.07.11 kl1730 1D – 2C
13.07.11 kl1800 Vinner 19 – vinner 21
13.07.11 kl2045 Vinner 18 – vinner 20
16.07.11 kl1730 Taper 22 – Taper 23
17.07.11 kl2045 Vinner 22 – Vinner 23

[Raufoss]

Leste jeg noen artikler om VM for kvinner i dag og jeg tilfeldigvis se dette bildet fra 18. juni 1995, da Norge slo Tyskland for å vinne verdens mesterskapet:



HEIA NORGE!!

[Axystos]

Hvis Norge vinner mesterskapet i 2011, da håper jeg at de har en bedre fotograf.

[Raufoss]

Hvis Norge vinner mesterskapet i 2011, da håper jeg at de har en bedre fotograf.

Jeg er enig.

Her er noen av feiringen etter kvinnelandslaget slo USA i gull kampen i 2000-OL:

[Raufoss]

Last week Norway played a closed door training match in Austria against the USA and came from behind to defeat the top ranked team in the world by a 3-1 score. If Norway can get a few more results like this during the next two weeks, Norwegian football fans will certainly be cheering again for "de norske fotballjentene."


Cecilie Pedersen scoret ett av Norges mål som innbytter.
Foto: Heiko Junge / Scanpix

Norge bygget VM-selvtillit med 3-1 over USA

På et lukket Steinberg stadion i Østerrike ladet de norske fotballjentene opp til VM med 3-1 over USA i en treningskamp mandag.

Landslagssjef Eli Landsem kan melde om en bra gjennomført kamp fra Norges side. Hun var fornøyd med den defensive kontrollen og mener seieren gir selvtillit før VM sparkes i gang i Tyskland til helgen.

- Jeg er godt fornøyd med kampen. Vi var disiplinerte i det defensive spillet og klarte i tillegg å skape mye offensivt, sa Landsem til NTB etter kampen.

[Raufoss]

Det er spennende for meg at Norge skal spille sin første kamp i Kvinne VM i dag.

Landslagskapteinen friskmeldt før VM-åpningen

Forberedt
- Vi som har erfaring får bruke den, men jeg kjenner at dette er en bra og moden gruppe. Etter testkampen mot Tyskland er vi også godt forberedt på trykket fra tribunene. Dette blir en fin turnering, og vi skal prøve å nyte det, sier Stensland.

Eli Landsem offentliggjør laget først onsdag, men på formiddagstreningen tirsdag ble denne elleveren drillet både på dødball og i spillsekvenser:

Norge (4-2-3-1): Ingrid Hjelmseth - Hedda Strand Gardsjord, Maren Mjelde, Nora Holstad Berge, Guro Knutsen Mienna - Ingvild Stensland, Trine Rønning - Emilie Haavi, Madeleine Giske, Elise Thorsnes - Isabell Herlovsen.

[Raufoss]

Emilie Bosshard Haavi avgjorde åpningskampen mot Ekvatorial-Guinea seks minutter før slutt.



BOSSHARD HAAVI AVGJORDE FOR NORGE

Kampfakta:

NORGE – EKVATORIAL-GUINEA (0-0)

Sted: FIFA Women's World Cup Stadium – Augsburg.
Dommer: Quetzalli Alvarado – Mexico.
Gult kort: Maren Mjelde, Elise Thorsnes – Norge.
Mål: 1-0 Emilie Bosshard Haavi (84.min).

Norges lag (4-2-3-1): Ingrid Hjelmseth - Hedda Strand Gardsjord, Maren Mjelde, Nora Holstad Berge, Marita Skammelsrud Lund - Ingvild Stensland, Trine Rønning - Emilie Bosshard Haavi, Madeleine Giske (Lene Mykjåland 46.min (Leni Larsen Kaurin 70.min)), Elise Thorsnes - Isabell Herlovsen (Cecilie Pedersen (62.min).

[Raufoss]

Norge spilte ikke bra, men likevel vant kampen. Jeg ser frem til en mye bedre innsats mot Brasil.

Norway didn't play well, but still won the match. I look forward to a much better effort against Brazil.

Landsem: – Dette holder ikke!

Landsem: - This is not enough!

Norway - Equatorial Guinea 1-0: There was a time, but far from delighted coach Eli Landsem who took stock of their World Cup baptism under fire.

- This is not (good) enough. We will be sent home soon if we do not perform better, she said after the 1-0 victory against Equatorial Guinea.

- We were effected a little by the fact that it was the opening match, and it was very hot. The first five minutes were very good, but then we started to mess it up. We won in the end on a bad day, but I do not think we scared anyone, she said.

She felt that Equatorial Guinea created chances very easily, while Norway struggled to capitalize on their own opportunities.

– Det var ikke planen, og det var heldig at de ikke scoret på noen av sjansene sine. Det var veldig godt å ha Ingrid (Hjelmseth) bakerst. Selv slet vi med å flytte beina i varmen, konstaterte hun.

- It was not the plan, and it was fortunate that they didn't score on any of their chances. It was very good to have Ingrid (Hjelmseth) at the back. We struggled to move our legs in the heat, she noted.

But in all the dissatisfaction with the performance was the joy of the three huge points.

- We would have made it difficult for us to 0-0, but now we've given ourselves a good chance to move on. We continue strong in the belief. We have a plan, and we can do much better than this. If we had been better today then we would put the nail in earlier.

She thought that apart from the goalkeeper most were below par on Wednesday, but had some praise for the match winner.

- Emilie (Haavi) is full of young spirit, and luckily she was able to put it towards the end.

[Raufoss]

Tyskerne vil vite alt om fotballjentene

Germans want to know all about the football women. "What underwear does Sofia Jakobssen use? where does Ariane Hingst wash her clothes?" - a couple of things you didn't want to know about the World Cup.

The tournament's first five days have passed; football fever runs high in the host country. The media are in close attendance, the Nationalelf in particular. Positive for the game, you might think, and perhaps it is, in the big picture. Football girls who complain about too much attention point to its triviality. But most agree that the borders of what is interesting are being stretched, especially by the tabloids.

Sweden's Sofia Jakobssen has noticed it. At the yellow-shirts' opening match against Colombia she was photographed from behind as she organised her kit. Her thong rode up under her trousers, giving Bild a photo captioned: "The Swedes use Hennes & Mauritz underwear". The paper's comment was, "now all we need is a subs' bench from Ikea".

http://www.bild.de/sport/fussball/fussb ... .bild.html

There is nothing the German papers don't go through. Earlier in the week, German defender Ariane Hingst had a break from training. "At 09.47 Ariane Hingst walked out of the hotel, went to the T-bane station, bought a ticket and sat on the train", Bild told its readers. That was not enough: "Hingst lives near the hotel, and took her dirty washing home", wrote Bild. The paper was also watching Kim Kulig, Alexandra Popp, Annike Krahn and Verena Faisst. "They left the hotel at 10.20 to go shopping", it says, "33 minutes after teammate Hingst".

Journalist Michael Knippenkötter explains the cut-throat competition for exclusive news. "Competition is acute when it comes to the women's national team", he said to Bergens Tidende. He works at TZ, the biggest tabloid in Munich, and is travelling from city to city with the team. "When a match is coming up we are up to 50 journalists following everything that happens. It's all about finding an angle additional to what happens on the pitch, a story that can be told", said Knippenkötter.

He tells of the huge development in the last years. "Everything is regulated the same as the men's national team. The women are very professional now, much more than four years ago, and there is a mixed zone after training sessions", he said.

Despite all this, everyday interest in women's teams is still modest. The average crowd at league matches is around 1000, and the German Football Association is hoping for a revolution, but Knippenkötter has his doubts about it becoming a reality. "Interest will increase, but not a lot. There is a big difference in the levels in the league".

[Raufoss]

Pedersen får trolig sjansen

On Sunday Brazil will be waiting for the Norwegian players. Cecilie Pedersen hopes to start the match in the packed Volkswagen Stadium at Wolfsburg. The 20-year-old from Førde came in as a sub when Norway beat Equatorial Guinea 1-0 on Wednesday. At Friday's formation training session in Wolfsburg it was Pedersen who had the most time at the front in the expected first eleven, so it looks as if Eli Landsem is planning a change of striker. Isabell Herlovsen had some big chances against Equatorial Guinea without being able to score.

"I have not been told anything yet, so I'm not sure if I will start. We have both been told we will have a lot of match-time, and they have to look at the opponents before they decide who to use", said Pedersen to bt.no.

Pedersen has had trouble with her club, Avaldsnes in division-1. "I have played one match at Avaldsnes this year and my contract lasts to October. I want to change clubs, but whether it will be at home or abroad I don't know", she said. She thinks her chance against Brazil are good. "In spite of the club situation I have trained a lot and played a lot of training matches with the national team. Fot the last weeks I have not thought about the situation at home", she said.

Neither Lene Mykjåland nor Guro Knutsen Mienna trained on Thursday. Indications are that Mykjåland will not be available for Sunday, which means that Arna-Bjørnar's Madeleine Giske will probably start again as an attacking midfielder. Giske was taken off at half time against Equatorial Guinea. "I was told it was not because of my performance, but it's obvious to most that we will have to raise our game several notches from that match", said Giske.

The Volkswagen Arena is sold out for Sunday, which means around 26,000 spectators. The match will be at 18.15. The temperature in North Germany is 18 degrees at present, which should suit the Norwegian girls much more than the 30 degrees they experienced in Augsburg in the first match.

From the formation training we can expect this starting eleven: Ingrid Hjelmseth - Hedda Gardsjord, Maren Mjelde, Nora Holstad Berge, Marita Skammelsrud Lund - Ingvild Stensland, Trine Rønning - Emilie Haavi, Madeleine Giske, Elise Thorsnes - Cecilie Pedersen.

[Axystos]

Jeg kunne ikke se Norges første kampen, men på søndag har jeg tid. Jeg gleder meg til Brasil mot Norge.