shout. The women’s national team starting lineup rarely leaks.
According to Sportbladet’s experience, the team management at the meeting strongly urged players and leaders to keep the information confidential.
“We’re keeping that to ourselves,” says striker Sofia Jakobson.
Days left until the premiere in the European Championships, the women’s national team gets full attention and the major Swedish media companies are reporting and speculating about training in Chester.
Progress is significant and as with all clubs and teams ahead of important matches, there is an interest in revealing eleven closer starts to the match.
Maybe that will happen before Saturday’s meeting with the Netherlands, but given the recent tournaments during this tournament Peter Gerhardson Readers and TV viewers will likely have to wait for the eleven to officially come out 75 minutes before kick-off.
Because with a few exceptions – then rarely the entire eleven but only information on individual players – the starting eleven hasn’t been leaked.
The last time this happened on a larger scale was before and at the start of the 2019 World Cup.
The reason for the successful secrecy is the loyalty in the national team group. According to Sportbladet’s experience, after the information was disclosed in 2019 the team management should have called up the players and leaders and made it clear that the information would remain within the team.
Sophia Jacobson smiles slightly when the topic is brought up.
– (laughs) You always want to keep Start Eleven away from everything as long as possible.. , she says.
Is it a force within the group that you succeed in?
– Yes, it seems so. We keep it to ourselves until the press finds out. It means something that we’re the ones who know it, we’re the ones who are going to go out and play.
Lindahl: ‘You may stay on your toes’
Peter Gerhardsson is secretive with his thoughts on where the players start.
We’ll find out the night before, says Jacobson.
Even goalkeepers do not get advance information.
– We’ll find out the night before. Only if the situation is sensitive, do they snack early. We sit in the meeting the day before, give a presentation on the screen and you’ll quickly see if you’re playing, says Hedvig Lindahl.
So now you don’t know if you’ll be in the premiere on Saturday?
– I don’t know. Peter may make that decision later this week.
You don’t think he decided?
– I don’t know, he always says that every match lives its own life. You have to stay on your toes. I’ve never been to first place before.
