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The first winners of the Women’s European Championship look like losers when the tournament kicks off in England this summer.
Sweden’s organisational clash with defending champions the Netherlands will be one of the highlights of the first rounds, but the Swedes hope to go much further.
Here we take a look at its possibilities. . .
Best: Winners (1984)
The first European champions have been, with the exception of a dominant Germany, the most consistent team on the continent, but they will be desperate to end their 38-year wait for a moment of success in the first tournament.
Since that first triumph, Sweden has 4 red finals and another seven semi-finals at World Cups and European Championships without crossing the finish line, and has also been a silver medalist in the last two Olympic Games.
Gerhardsson spent his entire career as a punter in his home country and had been a men’s football coach before taking his current position after Euro 2017, after guiding Gothenburg’s BK Hacken team to the Swedish Cup, the first major trophy in their history.
The 62-year-old led Sweden to a third-place finish at the 2019 World Cup, then missed olympic gold last summer after a penalty shootout loss to Canada.
Increasingly familiar to English fans after her time in the WSL with Arsenal in January, Blackstenius is one of the most productive forwards on the planet.
The 26-year-old holds a record in primary tournaments, scoring the winner of Sweden’s knockout rounds and quarter-finals at the 2019 World Cup, before placing the net five times at the Tokyo Olympics.
Décent. La Sweden has not seen as many resounding victories over minor matches at war as some of the other top contenders, but their “defeat” in the last twelve months had consequences in the Olympic final.
They were given a little more education by beating Italy in a shootout in the Algarve Cup final earlier this year, they were denied a good test against Denmark in that tournament after their Scandinavian neighbours lost due to a Covid outbreak.
Goalkeepers: Jennifer Falk (Hacken), Hedvig Lindahl (Atletico Madrid), Zecira Musovic (Chelsea).
Defenders: Magdalena Eriksson (Chelsea), Hanna Glas (Bayern Munich), Jonna Andersson (Hammarby), Nathalie Bjorn (Everton), Amanda Ilestedt (Paris Saint-Germain), Emma Kullberg (Brighton), Amanda Nilden (Juventus), Linda Sembrant (Juventus).
Midfielders: Caroline Seger (Rosengard), Filippa Angeldahl (Manchester City), Hanna Bennison (Everton), Kosovare Asllani (Real Madrid), Elin Rubensson (Hacken), Johanna Rytting Kaneryd (Hacken).
Forwards: Lina Hurtig (Juventus), Fridolina Rolfo (Barcelona), Stina Blackstenius (Arsenal), Sofia Jakobsson (San Diego Wave), Rebecka Blomqvist (Wolfsburg), Olivia Schough (Rosengard).
July 9 – Netherlands (Bramall Lane – 20:00 h)
July 13 – Switzerland (Bramall Lane – 17:00 h)
July 17 – Portugal (Leigh Sports Village – 17:00 h)
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