Co-host New Zealand stuns Norway to open the Women's World Cup

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In the first win ever for a New Zealand national soccer team at a World Cup competition, the women's team upset heavily favored Norway with a 1-0 win to open the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup.

The game began after a moment of silence was held before the opening whistle to remember the two people who died and five others injured, including a police officer, in a shooting in Auckland early Thursday morning before just miles away from Eden Park, the venue for the first match of the World Cup.

The gunman was killed in the incident and New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins told reporters that authorities do not see the shooting as a national security risk, or threat to the World Cup competition.