Ada Hegerberg- all-time UWCL top scorer - returned to Norway's squad this year following a self-imposed five year exile in protest of the way the side were treated by the Norwegian FA. KatieWhyatt explains why we must not lose sight of her motivation.
— her goals-to-game ratio at Lyon, for whom she has won the Champions League five times, is better than one a game — and the international game has been far poorer for her absence.
Hegerberg claimed one coach tried to hush her when she raised these issues with a director. The striker felt that assurances from national team directors that the women’s team mattered amounted to no more than lip service: in one section, Hegerberg says that the NFF “took a train back to the 1800s and stayed there”. She would say later that she had nightmares. She grew “so tired” of being told that “‘you women complain too much'” that she had to “close my mouth or speak out”.
Even so, relationships with other Norway players have not always appeared so harmonious, with TV 2 reporting in 2018 that Hegerberg had removed several of her former Norway teammates from Facebook and Instagram. She declined to comment on this, but’s Guro Reiten reportedly said: “We are a little tired of this case because it will always steal some energy from our group.”
The NFF’s tone here was far more repentant and Sjogren admitted that they “probably could have done a lot differently”. Lise Klaveness, elected as president of the NFF in March, said that it took “too long” for them to “get in a position to secure Ada”.Much of the credit goes to Klaveness, the sports lawyer and former Norway international.
“Ada had made some very specific feedback. Ada wanted out and has stood by that choice all the way. I have unconditional respect for Ada’s choice to retire. Maybe the NFF should have received in a different way at the time. Everyone has become more and more concrete and eventually Martin and Ada have taken over. This dialogue had become sporty. All the conversations we had and were really about respect, common ambitions to want to be a role model for the girls who come after us.
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