It may have already ended after the breakup from Djurgården final 12 months.
However Hedvig Lindahl prolonged her profession when she surprisingly stepped into Eskilstuna within the elite workforce this season.
The workforce was with out goalkeepers earlier than the beginning of the collection.
The answer was the 41-year-old veteran who for almost twenty years was Sweden’s first selection between the nationwide workforce posts.
Hedvig Lindahl had a protracted nationwide workforce profession. After European Championship 2022, she took a step again from that function. Photograph: Adam Ihse/TT
Väl i Eskilstuna United she has performed six video games and saved a clear sheet in three – however on Saturday she is going to make her final look on the prime stage.
– Now I really feel like I am taking part in the final recreation, says Lindahl when DN meets her in Västerås on Thursday, the place she is a goalkeeper coach on the soccer highschool in parallel with elite tennis.
– Partly as a result of my mission is form of accomplished, as a result of Julia (Eskilstuna goalkeeper Langörgen) who was injured is again. Partly, I really feel that I discover it tough to take care of a excessive stage as a participant when I’ve a variety of different issues in my life as properly.
Does it really feel unhappy?
– No, it feels fairly good now. It is an thrilling match in opposition to the league leaders (Alingsås) and Tunavallen turns 100 years outdated, so it is a jubilee day.
Lindahl was broadly praised for the penalty save within the spherical of 16 in opposition to Canada when Sweden then stood as bronze medalists within the WC 2019. Photograph: Michel Euler/AP
There have been 189 worldwide matches for the goalkeeper from small Marmorbyn in Vingåker municipality.
With a WC silver, two Olympic silver and two WC bronze, she is likely one of the girls’s nationwide workforce’s greatest icons of all time. She has grow to be champion in Germany (Wolfsburg) and in England (Chelsea), and acquired the Diamond Ball twice. Throughout a protracted profession, she has seen girls’s soccer develop explosively, and on the aspect of the sector, she has most of the time stood on the barricades, within the identify of sport and equality.
– I am pleased with it, says the goalkeeper about girls’s soccer’s journey.
– I feel that I’ve been concerned and influenced a minimum of the way it appears in Sweden.
After EC 2022 took she a step again from the nationwide workforce. And final 12 months – when she suffered a knee damage and later left Djurgården after a turbulent time – the method of “disidentifying” as a participant started in earnest, the loyal servant has beforehand instructed.
As early as 2023, she instructed DN:
– I’ve numerous different issues in life that I’m additionally: mom, spouse. You might be able to volunteer in an area membership the place you reside. It dissolves.
I hope I get “zero”
At present, she is a highschool coachboard member in girls’s league Linköping, assistant coach for Västersås SK’s women in division two, goalkeeper coach in Håbo FF (males, division 4) – and till Saturday elite soccer participant in Eskilstuna.
In her final match, she chases an ideal and dignified farewell.
– I hope I get “zero”. That is all I want for. But when it does not occur, I will survive.
Remark. Federation captain, thanks
“I need to ship an enormous congratulations to Hedvig for a formidable soccer profession, which efficiently lasted for a very long time. I need to thank her for all of the effective performances within the nationwide workforce throughout my time as nationwide workforce captain. Throughout a number of championships, she has been straight decisive and contributed to victories and medals, and the reminiscence throws one proper again to the WC 2019 and the penalty save in opposition to Canada. So thanks Hedvig for the work within the nationwide workforce for therefore a few years.”
Peter Gerhardsson in an announcement from the Swedish Soccer Affiliation.
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Details. Hedvig Lindahl
Born: 29 April 1983 in Katrineholm.
Mom Membership: Gropptorps IF.
Place: Goalkeeper.
Nationwide A matches/objectives: 189/0.
Senior golf equipment: Värmbol (1996–1998), Tunafors (1998–2000), Malmö FF (2001–2003), Trion (mortgage, 2003), Linköping (2004–2008), Gothenburg (2009–2010), Kristianstad (2011–2014), Chelsea (2015–2019), Wolfsburg (2019–2020), Atlético Madrid (2020–2022), Djurgården (2022–2023), Eskilstuna United (2024).
Deserves: Olympic Silver (2021 and 2016), World Cup Silver (2003), World Cup Bronze (2011, 2019), English League Champion (2015, 2018), German League Champion (2020) English FA Cup Champion (2015, 2018), German Cup Champion (2020), Swedish cup champion (2006, 2008), Diamantbollen (2015, 2016), goalkeeper of the 12 months in Sweden (2004, 2005, 2009, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019), goalkeeper in Fifa and Fifpro’s world eleven in 2018 .
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