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According to GP, the decision was made on December 17, the day after the team’s elimination from the Champions League. On Tuesday morning, the players and leaders were briefed in a meeting held digitally.
November 7 insured the club’s first Swedish Championship gold when Linköping was 7-0 defeated. After the completion of the Damallsvenskan, they awaited the Champions League matches against Manchester City. So now Gothenburg FC is shutting down its elite operations.
– For almost 20 years, we have developed and promoted women’s football in Gothenburg and Sweden. Following the same old footsteps is not something we believe in. In order to establish itself internationally, I am convinced that women’s football must be integrated and part equally, to participate in the same resources as men’s football, in an elite club. Of course, it is a sad decision for us in the short term, but seen in the long term, it is definitely the right decision to make now, Kopparbergs / Göteborg FC president Peter Bronsman tells the website of the club where the events are taking place. background of the decision:
“At the international level, women’s football has developed enormously in Europe in recent years. The big men’s clubs, such as Lyon, PSG, Bayern Munich, Manchester City, Manchester United, Barcelona and Juventus, among others, have realized the value of women’s football, have made large investments and have given women’s football resources that it does not we can match “.
The club will maintain activities for the 17- and 19-year-old teams, as well as the Shake Hands project.
Gothenburg Players Squad was shocked by Tuesday’s announcement.
Also surprising is the captain of the national team, Peter Gerhardsson, who in his last squad of the national team had no less than eight players from Gothenburg selected.
– Of course, it is a sad and unexpected message for Swedish women’s football that the champion team is shutting down its elite operations. As captain of the national team, I have seen that there have been many players who have had a good development in Kopparbergs / Gothenburg and who have also been players of the national team during the year, says Gerhardsson in a comment through the press service of the Association Swedish Soccer.
– My first thoughts based on my role go to the players and their loved ones who are affected, and the importance of having good opportunities to find new environments suitable for their continued development.
Gerhardsson continues:
– Regarding what the club and the players have achieved, the table must be of attractive players for other clubs and it feels good that, as far as I know, most players have agents who can now help professionally find new clubs that respectively fit players in the best way.
Göteborgs FC was formed in 1970 was formed, then with the name Landvetter IF. In 1996, the team made its first season in the highest league.
In 2004 the club moved from Landvetter to Gothenburg and changed its name to Kopparbergs / Göteborg FC. .
The club has won the Swedish Cup twice and has played the Champions League on several occasions. In 2020 came the first gold of the Swedish Championship.
Two profiles that have represented the club are Lotta Schelin and American star goalkeeper Hope Solo.
Some of the stars In today’s squad now looking for new clubs are goalkeepers Jennifer Falk and Loes Geurts, defender Emma Kullberg, midfielders Julia Roddar, Filippa Curmark, Elin Rubensson, Julia Zigiotti Olme and Filippa Angeldahl and forwards Stina Blackstenius and Pauline Hammarlund .
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