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ULLEVAAL (Dagbladet): – For me, it would be chaos, NRK expert Carl-Erik Torp tells Dagbladet.

It’s stupid to keep things secret. I think it will create more bloat than it needs.

The FIFA World Cup matches take place from July 20 to August 20. The host countries are Australia and New Zealand.

Norway plays all of its group stage matches in New Zealand. The team will get there at the beginning of July to acclimate.

In the run-up to the opening match against New Zealand on July 20, Norway will take on Portugal. But this match will never appear in any overview or stats.

National team coach Heiji Rais explains the secrecy as follows:

– We are not allowed to play an official match after entering the camp and opening an official toilet. It’s July 15th.

– So all the players will stay close?

– It’s a prerequisite. Nothing should be leaked. Everyone agrees. There are rules from FIFA that we shouldn’t mess with before we start.

Norway is in a group with New Zealand, Switzerland and the Philippines. Portugal will face the United States, Vietnam and the Netherlands.

Norway has not played an official international match since April 11 against Sweden. It finished 3-3. The distance between the Sweden match and the opening of the World Cup is one hundred days. In order to receive combat training, Norway entered into an agreement with Portugal.

With Caroline Graham-Hansen and Ada Hegerberg both back in Norway, the match will be of great importance. How’s it going? No, the world will never know.

– Torp points out that it’s of course good to practice some corner moves and scenarios towards the end of matches.

– It is logical that such things do not appear. This can make him the element of surprise. But I’m not a fan of them turning people away. I think openness and inclusion are good things.

Unforgiving message

TV 2 expert Solveig Gulbrandsen points out that the training match against Portugal will be of interest to many.

– This will be the first match with Graham Hansen and Hegerberg since the EC qualifiers in England last year. I think there is probably more interest in this match than they think.

– Do you think that absolutely nothing will come out of the match?

– It must be emphasized that no one discovers the time, place and result. Of interest to many. This is done so quickly that family and friends find out, and then it spreads quickly. Players should be completely loyal, but I think the group here is there. It takes a lot to get something out of it.

Hege Riise will be in dire need of a good toilet for Norway. Last year’s EC qualifiers ended in failure for Martin Sjögren.

Reis goes so far as to say that the match against Portugal will take place a few days before the opening match.

– Will it be twice 45 minutes?

– I don’t want to comment on that.

– Are you forced not to say anything?

– Our tactics in this will be after an agreement with Portugal. What do we want and what do they want? So there will be an agreement with them.

The minimum environmental requirement is for Norway to advance from the group stage. The USA, England, France and Spain are among the candidates. The WC consists of 32 teams.

– What makes you think the water cycle is better than the European Commission?

– Since we came in, the players have embraced the defensive game, Reyes told Dagbladet.

– They work for each other. Collective Norway stands stronger. This is the signal we get from the players.

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A good result, Torp believes, is that the team is advancing from the group.

– It will be approved. He points out that it would be good if we beat Japan or Spain in the round of 16.

A lot needs to be done to reach the quarter-finals, semi-finals or finals. We definitely have players who can be there. But the question is whether the team has it.