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Sweden win another consolation prize, so where to from then?

BRISBANE, Australia-- Being the alternate stylish at commodity in the world should be a great source of pride and yet, the immediate response to a tableware order is generally of disappointment, of a sinking" what if?" However, a loan order is a won order, not a lost order, it is a redemption and finding a palm after a loss.

The differing feelings-- and mounting bling-- is commodity Sweden is well used to by now. After the Olympic final two summers agone , Kosovare Asllani's response to her tableware order was not of the same intoxication the platoon had shown four times preliminarily when beat Germany in the Rio final. 

In Brazil in 2016, it had been about the fortitude and grind, of defying the odds to make the final, their addition in the gold order game, an achievement in itself On the tribune, there were gashes of joy. At the 2019 Women's World Cup, Sweden brought together Jackie Groene in the quarter-finals with an extra-time winner to fire against a fresher England team. But at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, the team flew to the field and lost in the final, where everyone believed that Sweden could. ( and would) palm, Asllani could not hide her disappointment, telling the press she was" so f--- ing sick of( having) a tableware f ing order."

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Fast-forward to Saturday night and citation has formerly again brought pride and delight to the Swedes, with the Scandinavian nation the better platoon for 90 twinkles against World Cupco-hosts Australia and again, they had commodity solid to show for their football prowess.

Sweden have qualified for every edition of the Women's World Cup and, with back- to- back Olympic citation orders and only two homestretches outside of the once four at 11 European Crowns, enjoy the type of form and life most nations would give an arm for. But there has only been one major event title, only one piece of tableware( gold) earthenware to garret above their heads and take home to Sweden the 1984 Euro title. The event veritably much outside of what's supposed as the ultramodern period of women's football, when women's football programmes were steeped in dilettantism and apathy from public coalitions associations.

When asked about what was coming for Blågult on Saturday, Swedish centre- reverse Magda Eriksson told ESPN" I hope we can make on this because moment and I suppose throughout the event, we have shown the quality we've throughout this platoon. We played incredible football, we defend hard, I think we have all the ingredients to be a winning team, a gold-winning team."

But as for the how? The protector answered" I suppose we are constantly on a literacy wind and I suppose that is commodity that is great with this platoon, we want to evolve, we do not want to stand still, we want to get better all the time and I suppose we learned so much from the Euros last time."

When talking to ESPN, bushwhacker Stina Blackstenius lauded the togetherness in the group and how the capability to lean on each other and come together with the understanding that knowing" what we can achieve when we play at our stylish" has been a crucial factor in their success until now.

But for the elaboration Eriksson spoke of, for the coming way, of not just showing their craftiness and fortitude through the hard event yards but coming out on top when it matters most in those semi- and grand tests? Of how this platoon of bridesmaids can have their own marriage day and claim the big prize at the end?

There's the egregious question of how far they have come under trainer Peter Gerhardsson, who caught the style, sermonizing a further attacking mindset whilst adding further thickness to the side, of how much longer the 63- time-old will want to stay in the unker. There are no loud calls for the director, who took over in 2017, to be moved on but there will always be the question of how a platoon can continue to grow and find that elaboration without change.

There are of course, players coming through to replace those who after innumerous times of service move into withdrawal, goalkeeper Zećira Mušović who had a memorable event, taking the cane from Hedvig Lindahl with ease. So too reliable midfielder Filippa Angeldal, who entered the role with the retirement of the 38-year-old captain Caroline Seger. But, indeed for a platoon whose average age is generally on the advanced side, the crucial players in the setup like Fridolina Rolfö and Eriksson are right at the end of the 20s, with Asllani formerly in hermid-30s and there will only be so numerous further events in their future.

Given the changing geography of the domestic game with Sweden's Damallsvenskan moving down the pecking order to more of a confluent or development league, feeding not just to homegrown players as well as others from around Scandinavia but from farther rung across Africa and the Americas, there's still, at present, a part for the Nordic league to play. still, with investment still on the rise around the traditional football nations and bootstrappers, there's a long- term question of how long Damallsvenskan will remain a feasible gravestone on the path through for numerous of the world's stylish. And also what that means for the Swedish public platoon brings about its own questions.

These are all enterprises Svenska Football Association will live by, with a strong belief in their capability to nurture players through the youth situations before they leave for meadows greener and leagues more professional latterly in their careers. For now, Sweden have again shown they should be in the discussion for World Mugs,

These are all concerns that Svenska Football Association  live by and strongly believe in their ability to develop players through  youth level before moving on to greener grass and professional leagues  later in their careers. So far, Sweden have proven once again that they should be in the conversation for the World Cup, European Championships and Olympics. The next concern is their maiden League of Nations campaign, which would secure a place at the Paris Olympics, but before that there's beer and partying.