To Hedvid Lindahl doesn’t get a lot of playing time at Chelsea, is no news. When she after Thursday’s landslagsträning at the Friends arena talked about how it feels, she was near tears for a moment.
” Now I am going to become emotional. It is tough, it is. You always want to feel that they play an important role, and will be phased out slowly feels tough, I will be honest and say.
For the signals she has got is that she is on the road away from the club. She has an outgoing contract.
” Yes, the other goalkeeper has been offered a contract and I don’t, so it’s tough.
as first-choice goalkeeper, but since then has, among other things, the German goalkeeper Ann-Katrin Berger enrolled.
Hedvig Lindahl is 35 years old, and says she has the help of his experiences through his career.
” I’m no spring chicken, I had been 25, it would have been even tougher, I think. Most importantly, I have learned to manage the feelings that come. I think everyone wants to feel seen and needed, it is human. And I think I’ve got methods to be able to clear out, in order to be ready. I can’t go into a match on Saturday and be ”all over the place”.
to do next, if it does not get an extension with Chelsea, she does not know, ” she says.
” I’ll just try to be the here and now and do as good as I can. Hopefully it will open up something for me.
She excludes the premier league, because she wants to play in a club with a realistic chance of getting far in the Champions League.
” If I’m going to be honest, so I want to play in a team like Chelsea. Now, they have not offered me a contract, it can change of course. But this is how it looks currently.
” I know that I can contribute still in the biggest matches.
, who plays the face of record turnout in Saturday’s preseason game against Germany, head coach Peter Gerhardsson, however, have chosen her as number one.
” I am grateful that he has been so clear, both in the media and to me. It feels very safe. In this case, do I need security, I think.
the Training started with the men’s national team head coach Janne Andersson spoke to the group.
– now, When it became so that they will play here on Saturday, I was very happy. I talked with Peter (Gerhardsson) and asked if I wouldn’t get past a workout and say hello and wish the best of luck with the world CUP, ” he says.
