Ada and Andrine Hegerberg: Norway’s sister act
Norway will step into a cauldron on Sunday when they face UEFA Women’s EURO 2017 hosts a Netherlands during a sold-out Galgenwaard Stadium in Utrecht to open a tournament.
Still, a 2013 runners-up can take certainty from a fact their line is led by Ada Hegerberg, a inclusive Lyon striker, 22, named UEFA Best Women’s Player in Europe final season. And she can take certainty from a fact that elder sister Andrine is alongside her in a squad.
Midfielder Andrine plays in England with Birmingham City though she was club-mates with Ada during Kolbotn, Stabæk and Turbine Potsdam between a start of Ada’s career and 2014. And, of course, they sojourn general colleagues. UEFA.com spoke to a sisters about their Norway partnership.
Ada on Andrine
“Being means to play on a same group as your sister is unequivocally special. we suffer it 100% and it’s a good feeling. We have played together for as prolonged as we can remember, we have been friends and upheld any other, and now we’re on a inhabitant group together. It’s a dream come true. At a same time, we know any other’s qualities and celebrity and we try to channel that to assistance a group get as distant as possible.
“We plead football a lot and give any other tiny pieces of recommendation on how we see any other’s positions on a pitch. We have a attribute on a pitch, nonetheless we still need to rise it. Nevertheless, we don’t speak football all a time.
“We are sisters and we have a whole horde of other topics than football. We are both really lustful of enlightenment and novel and we speak about aspects of society; she lives in England and we live in France so we have a lot to learn from any other when it comes to a particular practice off a pitch. It’s good to accommodate in a inhabitant group stay and to be means to see my sister.”
Andrine on Ada
“She’s my best crony and work-out mate, so it’s good to knowledge this together with her. We try to conclude that during a same time. We have a lot a fun with a other girls as well, though there’s something special with that whole situation.
“There’s a lot of football talk. We come from a football family, so we call behind home to plead a lot of things about football. But it’s OK, we can give any other feedback, and that’s important, though it’s also critical to speak about other things. More critical than football, luckily.
“She deals with a courtesy really well, she knows her indicate of view, her values and she manages to promulgate those. She talks about football in a good way. I’ve been tender by a approach she’s dealt with a attention; it’s been a complicated bucket from time to time. Of march she’s a actor that a other teams will be focusing on, and she’s critical to us, though during a same time a group has to work good for her to play well.”