00:08Sweden has been one of the most important countries in the development of modern women's football.
00:16The national team has placed in the top four as an incredible 17 major tournaments.
00:22But for all their consistency, they only have one major trophy to show for it.
00:27The inaugural UEFA Women's Euro back in 1984.
00:34Clubs from the Damalswensken have appeared in seven UEFA Champions League finals,
00:40behind only European powerhouses Germany and France.
00:44While Umea's two Champions League titles and three runners-up finishes
00:49ranks the tiny side among the continent's elite.
00:57Pia Sundhager has been one of the most influential coaches in the women's game,
01:02leading the USA to two Olympic gold medals, Sweden to Olympic silver and Brazil to a Copa America Femenina.
01:14And star players have come easily, including modern greats like Fridolina Rolfa, Amanda Illestad, and Magdalena Eriksson.
01:27Eriksson was a member of the Sweden squad that reached back-to-back major tournament semi-finals,
01:32falling to the eventual champions of both the 2023 World Cup and Euro 2022.
01:43They were only narrowly beaten by Spain in 2023.
01:47But a year earlier, they were ruthlessly hammered 4-0 by England.
01:53Yeah, I feel really disappointed at the moment.
01:55This is a tough one to take for us.
01:59We, of course, wanted more in this tournament, but it didn't go our way today.
02:04England are brutally effective as a team.
02:06And, yeah, we just wasn't enough today.
02:09What I think we can take from this, though, is that we have had amazing fans.
02:14I had a bunch of messages coming into the dressing room from people who truly support us in thick and
02:22in thin, you know,
02:23not the haters that, you know, just saw this game and got disappointed.
02:28No, we have true fans who will lift Sweden for the future tournaments and future games.
02:37With such pedigree, Sweden's women will surely double their tally of major titles eventually.
02:45We know how good we are.
02:47We have been performing the last tournaments.
02:49We can see it in the World Cup and the Olympics, where we have, we, in the end, we had
02:55a medal.
02:56So we have to be proud and we have to work really hard for reaching the top.
03:03And when Sweden do reach the top, it will be a fitting reward for a well-rounded football nation.
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