Now Hedvig Lindahl is relegated to what happened during the semi-final against England.
The bouncer wrote on Instagram that she woke up in the middle of the night thinking about the tunnel and the ball.
“Very insulting. Very embarrassing.”
No, the effort wasn’t spotless. The energy was lacking, especially after Luzi Bronze headed 2-0 up in the semi-final against England. It ran to 4-0 before it was all over, and the host nation qualified for the European Championship final on Sunday.
Immediately after ordering the match Hedwig Lindahl If she should leave the national team after last year’s Olympic silver medal. The level you got in Tokyo you never reached during EC.
Now three days had passed and Lindahl was filling the tournament. She was embarrassed by some of the details, especially her actions in England 3-0 and 4-0.
“Waking up in the middle of the night. You have trouble sleeping. Shame. Get to know the feeling. The same feeling I was worried about in terms of team picks where I’m betting on everything. To not be chosen, to be left alone with the shame of not being good enough. Leaving a tunnel and entering the world stage causes me the same shame,” she writes on Instagram.
“So. Ill. Proud.”
But disappointment and regret are not all that the goalkeeper feels. She is proud too. Proud of the national team, and proud of himself for taking a place despite an unsettling season in the club’s squad. Most of all, she is grateful to be able to play in front of so many Swedish fans, the absolute majority at home on TV sofas but also a few thousand on site in England.
“Travel enthusiasts have made me feel for the first time that people have such real connections with our sport that they choose to spend their days off watching the tournament on site or at home in Sweden. Granted, there have been fans in previous tournaments, but now you’re on a critical mass. So Sick. Proud. This time we didn’t make history on the pitch, but you did in the stands,” Lindahl writes.
another thing. The 39-year-old appears to have quit the national team now.
“Now is the time to let someone else have a chance,” wrote Hedvig Lindahl.