ottawa. The same superiority, same quality, same radiant confidence.
But it’s not the same old Germany Sweden will face.
They were good.
They will get better.
“She’s a hell of a painting nails”
High summer heat comes as a slap in the face. The flight landed in Ottawa, I had been a national team player, I had cramp in the fourth.
But it is here that the engines be restarted on the other side midsummer. Sweden has had a chance to make the World Cup to his, and in the midst of all the disappointment it must feel like a relief to take the country right here; no pressure on them, without any expectations.
In addition, it is beautiful here.
It is possible to sit in the sun, see the glitter of the Ottawa River, eat a salad nicoise with tuna and pink look up at the Hill and the Parliament. It is also possible to go downstairs at a hotel and stare straight into the world’s most powerful football wall.
Germany came before Sweden here, and the first thing they sent out was a perfect picture of what they were what they are and what they intend to get ahead.
On the left sat Nadine Angerer, 36-year-old goalkeeper rises winning five European Championships and two World Championships, and that makes his last championship.
To the right sat Lena Petermann, 21, who decided the final of the U20 World Cup last year and makes his first senior championship.
To see a generation out.
Crashed straight into Germany
Angerer’s mouth said there are 50-50 against Sweden, but her whole revelation denied it. It was mischievous winks, tongue in cheek, laughter and jokes and asides here and there which revealed that she does not have any thought of going home from Canada now.
There was a time when Nadine Angerer was so sure that she missed a national team competition because she was too nervous to dare open letter that came from the union. That was a long time ago.
Now, she has seen almost everything, won almost everything, and swept the world of football up with a generation of players who were rock hard, both physically and mentally. Sweden got to know it at very close range, several years everyone started championship with the Swedes talked about gold and ended with the crashed straight into Germany.
It certainly does not feel like we approached since.
As the women’s football developed, the differences between large and small clearer every year. Sweden was a pioneer in this sport, a relatively egalitarian country that was early on the track and was able to celebrate great successes.
Now the football world both broader and narrower.
One and a half a
And in front of everyone goes Germany.
They were good yesterday, they will be good tomorrow and when Lena Petermann and the other junior world champions plant clearly they will be even better, even stronger pace, even more technical. German women’s football is not without problems, but their arrows pointing in all cases the right direction:
When they met Norway at ten o’clock on a weekday evening saw seven million Germans match on television, Allianz closes heavyweights agreement Bundesliga Wolfsburg steps Volkswagen Group in with money, in Frankfurt celebrates still its Champions League title, the Munich racing prepares FC Bayern full, and talent development that made the German boys and men the best in the world have started churning out talent on the women’s side too.
They build great for the future
If Sweden wants to compete, they must become more efficient and smarter, both here and in the long term.
Nadine Angerer to its Sweden She has been in goal for Djurgarden and stood in the way for the national team more times than we want to count.
I asked her what differences she sees between Germany and Sweden, tactically, technically, mentally.
She did not hold back much.
– We are playing in a different way, she explained. Sweden play a lot of long balls, they’re physically strong, have a quick striker. We play smarter, have better technology, and if you look at the whole squad – and not only the starting line – we have higher quality.
Pia Sundhages idea of a ball skillfully Swedish national team packed up and frozen before the World Cup. Now Angerer right: It is a long ball physics and a fast striker (or possibly two) that Sweden has to hope for.
Germany builds for the future, they build great if Sweden intends to articulate them it is probably best to Caroline Seger, Nilla Fischer and the other fits on even now.
Sure, it will be extremely difficult.
But it will certainly not to become easier in future.
“She’s a hell of a painting nails”
* TV4 on Saturday 22:00 – Sweden-Germany
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