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Norway-Israel friendly called off due to COVID-19 risk

OSLO (Reuters) - Wednesday’s soccer match between Norway and Israel has been called off due to a risk of coronavirus infections, the Norwegian Football Federation (NFF) said in a statement.

Norway’s Directorate of Public Health, which originally gave the go-ahead for the friendly, on Wednesday recommended that the game should be called off, the NFF said.

Reporting by Terje Solsvik; Editing by Jon Boyle

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