Chester / Stockholm. Watch Stina Blackstenius coach Jonas Eidevall Fridolina Rulfo on English TV.
Now Blackstenius is riding to defend his teammate.
– I’ve become overprotective, she says.
A strange situation arose for the big star Stena Blacksteins under EM.
While she and her teammates have been chasing gold on the field, her Arsenal coach, Jonas Edvall, is a TV expert and largely honest in his judgments.
Like yesterday when he pulled out the saw and pointed at his teammate Fridolina Rulfo.
– She needs to step up. I think it applies to the entire tournament. If she had played in England under Sarina Wegmann, there would have been no chance she would have played these many minutes of game after match, Idival told BBC English.
Defend Rulfo
The publication did not go unnoticed by Blacksteinius.
The next day, she went out to defend her teammate.
Now Fredo has received criticism. You just want her to hold her head up high. She knows what she can do and has a lot of confidence in herself, she says and adds:
– You’re getting a little overprotective.
‘Don’t give it importance’
Blackstenius decided Eidevall had strong opinions on the TV expert role and that he wouldn’t be shy about criticizing her either.
– I had the position that he would probably be honest, because that’s how he is as a person and as a coach as well. This is his job as the TV expert. My job is to do the best I can on the football field. I don’t attach any importance to it.
“This is where we disagree”
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It is our duty to try to help her if it is a topical thing, but other than that, her strengths must be strengthened. Those of us who see her in training and matches see her as an incredibly talented footballer and we need Fridolina every minute.
When asked how he views Edval’s criticism that she has not been replaced, he replied:
– Because we think it’s too good and we want to play it all the time. We disagree there, he and we. But Fridolina is a big player for us, a global player and one of our most important offensive players, so we play with her all the time, he says.