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The tours have been extensive since Gothenburg FC took Swedish football to bed on Tuesday by announcing that the club is shutting down its elite operations.
17 players from team A, of whom nine play for the national team, were suddenly left without club membership.
– You’re in shock. I honestly don’t know what to say, Julia Zigiotti Olme told DN.
Elin Rubensson, 2019 WC bronze winner and during last season, maternity leave, added:
– We are very shocked and sad, thoughts are spinning.
An option to keep a damallsvensk team in Gothenburg was that the organization could be absorbed into an existing club in the city, something Örgryte opened to take over.
On Wednesday, Öis president Joacim Nordh announced that the club would discuss the issue of a possible acquisition of the new champion club at an additionally convened board meeting. But later in the evening, the club went out to its website and stated that it will continue with its original women’s bet where the team earlier this year advanced to division 3.
“Unfortunately, as there is a shortage of time, it is not possible to investigate the problem fully. In addition to a thorough investigation, the issue must also be discussed at an annual meeting and the members have the right to make decisions. At present, there are unfortunately no nothing we can do to ensure that Gothenburg as a city has a representative who will play Allsvenskan football in Gothenburg in 2021, “writes Örgryte.
But now there are many indications that after all, the city will have damallsvensk representation for next year.
According to Expressen, Göteborg FC’s elite operations appear to be salvaged thanks to “a number of sponsors who have arrived in recent days.”
The newspaper further writes that the club’s players and leaders are summoned to a meeting at 10 am on Thursday morning together with President Peter Bronsman, where they will receive more information. The players’ team is said to have received a text message from coach Mats Gren, who is said to have written that “everything will be fine” and that more information will be communicated shortly.
President Peter Bronsman, who is also CEO of the Kopparbergs Bryggeri brewing group, has explained the decision to end elite operations by saying that only the established big clubs, which are also active on the men’s side, have a reasonable chance to compete internationally with the best. European teams.
The time had come for associations like IFK Gothenburg, Örgryte, Häcken and Gais to “take over” and, according to Bronsman, the problem has not been financial constraints.
– It’s not about that. In the long term, we must find a way to access television money. Here you have to negotiate as a club, otherwise the gaps will only continue to grow, Bronsman told DN on Tuesday.
On Wednesday night, Göteborg FC had yet to send a formal message to the Swedish Football Association that they were resigning their place at Damallsvenska.
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