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The anon is right. Swedish players are well football educated, they're used to tactics and drilled from a young age. The current squad have the ability to take in short instructions at trainings and during games. It makes it possible for Peter to have a system where it doesn't matter who comes off the bench when everyone knows what to do. And the players coach each other during games. the-necessary-unnecessary(.)tumblr(.)com/post/657310504001339392/i-feel-like-sweden-are-a-very-well-drilled-team
And this is all something that cannot be undervalued or underappreciated!!
Masterpost of all the openly LGBTQ+ women’s footballers at the Olympics (and their girlfriends/wives)
We did this for the 2019 World Cup and now here we are again for an encore celebrating all the lesbian, bi and trans women’s football players at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics! I’ve tried my best to be as inclusive and thorough as possible but do let me know if I’ve overlooked anything at all :)) Right, without further ado and in no particular order, let’s jump in! NOTE: yes this list is over 65 players long so most follow after a cut
Vivianne Miedema (Netherlands, Arsenal): the woman, the myth, the legend. Not only is she an incredible footballer breaking records for club and country for years at this point, but she also has many off the pitch talents such as her incredible eyebrow raising skills, ability to take her teddybear everywhere she goes, be one half of the soft bros and the unmeasurable love and support she gives Lisa Evans who she met at Bayern Munich and they now play at Arsenal together (one of many gay footballing migrations) whilst working a side hussle as vloggers. Lisa missed out on a Team GB ticket to Tokyo (#JusticeForLisa) but she’ll be sporting that orange shirt from home in London for sure!
Shelina Zadorsky (Canada, Tottenham Hotspurs): her relationship with fellow Spurs player Rosella Ayane is still relatively new but they’ve already firmly established themselves as one of the cutest couples in futfem with their banter, incredible looks, podcast features, supportive messages and general sweetness.
Tiane Endler (Chile, Olympique Lyonnais): she recently made two life changing decisions - moving from PSG to rival club Lyon, and marrying her now wife Sofia. Tiane absolute legend of the game for her incredible saves, her ability to carry like five players at a time and her casual openness about being herself.
Leah Williamson (Team GB, Arsenal): another player on the long list of Arsenal gays, she’s very much an icon with a love for Arsenal and for the game only matched by her love to tease her girlfriend, teammate and another footballer left out of the GB squad, Jordan Nobbs. With their questionable sense of style, endless Blu (Jordan’s dog) content, jokes about Jordan’s brain capacity from Leah and an overall level of supportiveness and respect in one another they are a couple to be loved both on and off the pitch.
Megan Rapinoe (USA, OL Reign): her and her basketball-playing fiancée Sue Bird are an Olympic couple if ever there was one! Sue Bird is about to compete in her fifth Olympics and try to bring back her fifth gold medal, whilst Megan has less Olympic gold but such accolades such as the Ballon D’Or and two world cups under her belt. As for her fight for equality, well what is there to say that people don’t already know?!
Marta (Brazil, Orlando Pride): there is no greater legend of the game than Marta. For coming up to 20 years now she has been making waves within and beyond the women’s football community due to her unmatched skills, her leadership and her passion. Recently, she’s been making waves by announcing her engagement to fellow Pride teammate Toni Pressley, with whom she is also the mother to some adorable dogs. I mean just look at the love and sweetness that radiates off of them!!!
Anonymous asked:
I was sad Zigiotti didn't get back in time to experience Olympics with her girlfriend. But after watching that "Oh no no no no no" Tik Tok-clip I'm relieved she's at home! Doesn't seem like a good idea to have her, Bjorn, Angeldahl, Schough and Seger in the same room even with Fischer and Sembrant missing. Who know's what kind of ancient Japanese ghost they'd accidentally unleashed upon the village?
Lmao maybe peter gerhardsson had this bigger picture in mind when he left her out 😂
Anonymous asked:
...You were right when you said there's underrated chaos energy in Sweden team. You'll barely notice when the veterans plus Schough have retired with these idiots around 🤦♀️ thewomenfootball,tumblr,com/post/640039703042736128 Half of the time I wonder how Sweden get any football done at all in that chaos. em-ailime,tumblr,com/post/633164789309472768/i-cant-get-enough-of-this-team I mean obviously they get things done, they wouldn't be in Japan right now or in England next summer otherwise.
Olivia’s back at it 😂
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Sweden’s Caroline Seger breaks the European and Swedish record for the most international matches with 215 appearances - June 15th 2021
Anonymous asked:
I would also really like to see espwnt vs swewnt!
Sweden is traditionally very good at defending, very diciplined and so. They best way to punish sweden’s defense is by counter attacks, and I feel like that isn’t spains biggest strenght, and other that that swedens is very good at minimising the spaces and let the other team have the ball if that is needed. In front of todays game vs USA they are mainly talking about the US counter attacks and how to stop that but it feels like they aren’t as afraid playing a team that just like to keep the ball within the team
Since changing coach (4 years ago but people keep forgetting because of all the debate after last olympics) sweden has really developed their own possession play as well and can be really effective in the attack. When Pia was the coach, the tactics was to defend their way to victory in every game, so be against nr 1 ranked usa but also nr 45 ranked whatever, and while that mindset is gone, a lot of the players are the same so when needed they still know how to do it
So with that being said, in a game sweden vs spain, spain would of course have the ball the majority of the time, but if they don’t start being more effective in the attack, sweden is a team that could really punish them
Ooh yes okay, it could end up being a fantastic battle between a very good offensive team and another very good defensive one. Fully looking forward to this match up at some point!!
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The Euros are gonna be so interesting. Spain's on the rise and it's deffo gonna be everything but easy for the Netherlands to defend their title. Especially with a new manager, whoever this may be...
Some cool thoughts for the Euros here!! Kinda gutted we've got to wait a whole nother year to see them all properly in action against each other but at the same time it will hopefully allow them to get all the more prepared and focused for the tournament! Things can develop in a year but these do seem to be the strong contenders at the moment!!
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#yep what she said#so great to see her back though!#also that those stats are about the men's game#so who knows with women where many in top divisions dont have access to mental health backroom staff#may have other jobs to juggle#dont have as much of a stable income etc#and yet still deal with abuse on sm a lot of the time etc etc#madelen janogy#kosovare asllani#swewnt
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girlssoccernetwork : Sweden Men’s National Team is stepping up and showing their allyship for the #equalpay movement 💸. The team has decided to play the remainder of their 2020 matches without compensation to support the @swewnt in their demand for pay equality.
Player, Kosovare Asllani recently said on Instagram that equal pay was “about respect,” and that the women’s team was paid 24% of what the men’s team received in 2018-19. AND when they won the #WWC bronze in 2019, they got 10% of what the men got when they made it to the quarter-finals. NOT OKAY 😡.
Oh lord the pictures with players in suits! I would be lying if I said that a part of the hype of the start of wc was swewnt in suits 😘🧐
The world cup gave us many things and one of those things were teams in suits. And yeah the swedish team really rocked them, any excuse to whip out this photos...