Extracts from Norwegian, Danish and English lingual mass media about Mia’s match winning goal in the bronze medal final in the Sydney Olympics.
Winger Mia Hundvin scored Norway's dramatic winner a minute and 24 seconds from the final
hooter, leaping into the Korean goalmouth from the left and unleashing an unstoppable
angled shot. Hundvin was accidentally kicked in the head by the Korean goalkeeper as
she fell to ground and needed medical attention before play resumed.
(Sidney Olympics' official site)
Mia Hundvin scored the game-winner with 83 seconds left on an incredibly athletic play, jumping over a fallen defender, hanging in the air and changing her arm angle.
(CNNSI)
There were only two minutes left of the match when Mia threw herself in front of the goal and scored. (..) Mia
got a nasty cut over her right eye after being kicked by the goalkeeper. She ended up with a black eye. (..) Mia
Hundvin: It was a tough game, and we got beat up by their defence. I was kicked in the face, said Mia,
who almost had forgotten the injury, after the game.
(Dagbladet, translated from Norwegian)
Mia jumped in from the left wing and lobbed in a goal, to make it 22-21 against South Korea, that became the
match winner. Mia Hundvin: It was fun scoring that goal. It was a lot to think about. I had to jump over
a player in the field and got the goalkeeper's foot in my face. But it was really worth it!
(VG, translated from Norwegian)
Mia Hundvin once again managed to be cool in the decisive moment. She scored the winning goal from the wing
and was at the same time kicked above her eye by the Korean goalkeeper. It doesn't look so bad at this
moment, but I think my eye will be swollen later, said little and brave Mia.
(Stavanger Aftenblad, translated from Norwegian)
In the last minutes the score was 21-21, but the Norwegian left winger Mia Hundvin (FIF) fearlessly threw
herself in front of the Korean goal and scored the decisive goal.
(Politiken, translated from Danish)
Vital moments in the last seconds: Mia Hundvin sacrified everything for Norway when she scored and got
a goalkeeper's foot in the head.
(Aftenposten, translated from Norwegian)
Mia Hundvin threw herself in front of the goal and scored the last goal with just one minute left.
(NRK, translated from Norwegian)
Mia Hundvin scored the winner with 1:23 left to give Norway the bronze medal with a 22-21 victory over South Korea. Hundvin, who finished with two goals, floated a soft lob over goalkeeper Oh Yong-ran from her position on the left wing to secure Norway's bronze.
(India Times)