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"We will have the great breakthrough"

Marklund & Co shoots - for a place in the peoples' hearts.

PHILADELPHIA
The Swedish people have long dreamt for a women's team to love. One team has signed on.
- Womens' soccer will have it's great breakthrough, regardless of how we perform here, Hanna Marklund says.

No disrespect to Annika Sörenstam and Christian Olsson - but if if there's anything that can really root in the dept of Swedish hearts it is the teams.
Tre Kronor and the soccer team has for a long, long time been like family members for Swedish sport fans.
On the men's side that is.
On the women's side some team have approached the soul of the people, but none have managed to root.
- One saw right away that when it went pretty well for the handball ladies, people went nuts immediately. We have lots of good women in individuell sports, but it's different with a team, Hanna Marklund says.

750,000 saw Sweden

- Of course it'll be a giant breakthrough if we go far, but we've talked about it - we don't stand and fall with this. It's so many women playing soccer, it's so big that it'll be a breakthrough regardless of how we perform here.
Maybe it will take a while longer, but it will come.

TV4 broadcasts from the championship has been followed by 1.3 million (USA) and slightly unbelievable 750,000 during the nightly matinée against North Korea.
Coach Marika Domanski Lyfors agrees with Hanna Marklund about the potential of women's soccer.
- We have characters that I think will stick in the hearts of the people. If we have a good championship we will. Plus it's important, not in the least for all the little girls that will get their idols to look up to, she says.

Sweden beat North Korea last Thursday, but can still miss both the WC playoffs and the next year's olympics if they fail against Nigeria tomorrow.
- We're going to do everything we can to succeed. But even if we don't we've built up something that can't be razed. We are on our way to establish women's soccer in the hearts of the people, Marika Domanski Lyfors says.

By Simon Bank
Published 2003-09-27

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It is time we get a beloved women's team now.

PHILADELPHIA
We can take the Öresund bridge to Denmark. We can take the Svinesund bridge to Norway. Wouldn't it be a shame then if we couldn't import a good Nordic tradition.
The Beloved Women's Team.
It is time we get one now.

A new, enjoyable day - the last - on the players roof terass above Broad Street in Philadelphia.
Sweden had defeated North Korea and were travelling to Columbus, Ohio, and even if everyone were in pain you could se that they were feeling very well.
One does too.

Nice gals

As a sports reporter with experience in having to elbow one's way to be able to hear well payed male pros say nothing it is a pleasure for the soul to follow this team.
You can talk with them. They say things. This Wednesday Frida Östberg talked about soccer and knee injuries and existentialism, the other day Vickan talked about her fat brother in law Fröa, and even if the gals from up north (as Hanna Öjungber said) "speak a bit slow" they're very nice to deal with.

1.3 million tv viewers dealt with them Sunday.
Three-quarters of a million dealt with them Thursday night.
That's fantastic numbers.

It can very well mean that we Swedes have finally found a team to follow, discuss and love even on the women's side.
I think we've dreamt about it for a long time.

Trust Marklund...
Denmark has their handball gals, Norway too, teams that the people follows and have floowed for many years, teams with players that have grown and become profiles that everyone recognizes and has a relation to.
Sweden hasn't, and when our own handball gals beat Kongo year before last the entire Swedish people caught the fever, despite that it turned out that "the smiling team" didn't have very much to smile at when they met teams that actually knew how to play.

Hanna Marklund says that the soccers gals will have a big breakthrough, that it's only a question of when.
Hanna marklund is a gal to be trusted.
In Umeå there are little boys running around with shirts bearing the name of Hnna Ljungberg on the back.
Soon it can be true for the rest of the country too.
Teams build their populatrity partly of tradition and success, partly on their profiles. A beloved team has profiles that we watch and can, and foremost want to, identify with.

The team is filled with profile.

The Soccer team is today filled with such profiles. They have a Hanna Marklund that talks like a mountain stream, and tackles like a man.

They have a Malin Andersson that's wise a poodel, a Jane Törnqvist that's a furniture carpenter and loves to slide tackle, they have a Malin Moström that's the clost we have to a Swedish Paul Scholes. They have a disarmingly frank Victoria Svensson and an i all aspects so admireable young woman like Hanna Ljungberg (she was cheated of three plus in the grading of the North Korea game, I need to kiss up a bit here).

Sweden has a soccer culture, the ladies get that for free.
Spice with an enchanted summer, a great success in the world championships here or in the olympic game next year - then the dream about a beloved women's team will be a dream no more.

Then it'll only be brown cheese and Stig Töfting we have left to be jealous of Norweigans and Danes for.
I suppose that's okay.

By Simon Bank
Published: 2003-09-27

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