Ada Hegerberg has announced she will return to play for Norway at the Euros this summer after a close to five-year absence from the national team.
The Women’s Champions League record goalscorer and first female winner of the Ballon d’Or, in 2018, stepped away from international football after the last European Championship in 2017, where the 2013 runners-up crashed out with three defeats in three games and failed to score.
Hegerberg was Uefa’s Best Women’s Player in 2016 and BBC Women’s Footballer of the Year in 2017 and her decision to make herself unavailable for international football created shockwaves. She had become frustrated at what she perceived as a lack of support for the women’s team and …
- March 25, 2022
