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Index: World Cup Finals: France 1998: Norway

Norway in the World Cup Finals

World Cup Appearances:
France 1998 was Norway's 3rd appearance in the World Cup Finals.

Best World Cup Performance:
Norway try to make it third time lucky in the World Cup Finals as they never got further than the Preliminary Round in France 1938 or the Group Stage at USA 1994.

Norway in the 1998 World Cup

Group A

10th June: vs. Morocco (2:2) in Montpellier.

16th June: vs. Scotland (1:1) in Bordeaux.

23rd June: vs. Brazil (2:1) in Marseilles.

Norway make it into the Second Round, for the first time, thanks to a shirt-pull penalty decision against Brazil.

Knockout Stage

2nd Round
27th June: vs. Italy (0:1) in Marseilles.

Norway's first defeat in twenty matches fell to an eighteenth minute Vieri strike, in the Second Round.

Norway World Cup Squad

Goalkeepers:

1 Frode Grodas (Chelsea)
12 Thomas Myhre (Everton)
13 Espen Baardsen (Tottenham Hotspur)

Defenders:

2 Gunnar Halle (Leeds United)
3 Ronny Johnsen (Manchester United)
4 Henning Berg (Manchester United)
5 Stig Inge Bjoernebye (Liverpool)
14 Vegard Heggem (Rosenburg)
15 Dan Eggen (Celta Vigo)
19 Erik Hoftun (Rosenburg)

Midfielders:

6 Staale Solbakken (Wimbledon)
7 Erik Mykland (Panathinaikos)
8 Oyvind Leonhardsen (Liverpool)
10 Kjetil Rekdal (Hertha Berlin)
16 Jostein Flo (Stroemsgodset)
17 Haavard Flo (Werder Bremen)

Forwards:

9 Tore Andre Flo (Chelsea)
11 Jahn Ivar Jakobsen (Rosenburg)
18 Egil Ostenstad (Southampton)
20 Ole Gunnar Solkjær (Manchester United)
21 Vidar Riseth (ASK Linzer)
22 Roar Strand (Rosenburg)

Trainer:
Egil Olsen.

Destination Norway

Norway Travel Notes:
Find out more about Norway @ Travel Notes.