The keeper icon Katrine Lunde has just started her 24th championship for a Norway. After the premiere against Slovenia she temporarily leaves the championship due to family issues, writes several media outlets.
Norway fought of Slovenia, both Lunde and her colleague Silje Solberg-Oesthassel got minutes between the posts. In the upcoming two group games Solberg-Oesthassel will join forces with Eli Marie Raasok. Lunde returns to Norway for previously agreed, but not externally communicated family business.
– Katrine travels due to the logistics at home. She will meet up with us again in Vienna after the weekend.
– That´s how we had to do it to get it done. The alternative was to not include her at all, the coach Thorir Hergeirsson continues to Dagbladet.
Lunde is ready to play again from the start of the Main Round.