lig. A guaranteed quarter-final means a guaranteed bonus of 417,000 SEK per player.
There was reason for the double joy after the victory over Portugal.
“I stand here as an ordinary laborer with an ordinary laborer’s salary, so that obviously means a lot,” says guard Hedvig Lindahl.
Mathematically speaking, the victory over Portugal was a stalemate. Sweden won their group and will avoid France in the quarter-finals.
But there was more joy for the players.
Before the European Championship, the group of players came and Swedish Football Association Even a unique deal.
Together, after all the discussions over the years about the differences between the women’s national teams and the men’s team, they chose to go public with the numbers.
The basic prize for each player, 23 total, in the team is SEK 261,000.
With a guaranteed promotion to the quarter-finals, each player receives an additional 156,000 SEK.
So 417,000 SEK has been registered so far.
Hedvig Lindahl welcomes the pennies and is grateful for the scale of the agreement.
For me, that means a lot. Sometimes I want to be able to live in my house and it obviously helps with such an amount. I’m standing here as a normal wage earner, so obviously that means a lot, says the goalkeeper.
What is it like to get such a big bonus for the first time?
– I see it as if it might have started to be a dividend on all the stocks I invested about 20 years ago. So it was fun to have a return at the end. So we are still not happy with the future. Without this it should change, but for now it looks fun.
On the other hand, Stina Blackstenius did not think about the money coming.
– Our only goal is to win this tournament and go as far as we can, it will be a reward, says the striker.
But 157,000 SEK is a good compensation for 90 minutes?
– (laughs) Yes, you can see it. I think everyone answers yes here.
For Magdalena Ericsson and Kosovar Aslani, money does not matter in this case.
– I think that’s the last thing we think of. I mean we just want to win the next game, win the next, win the next. We don’t think about rewards at all, I can promise you that.
– In fact, it does not mean anything in the current situation.. “Magda” says.