Linda Sällström does not enjoy summer heat over 30 degrees. Jyri Sulander / SPL
Linda Sällström Belongs to the pearls.
Soon the 37-year-old striker was already in the 2009 European Championship. Four years later, he had to miss the Swedish 2013 tournament due to a bad knee launch, but in England in 2022 he was back.
And scored Finland’s only goal in the tournament with a great shot that went to the Spanish goal through the pole.
-I was already going to the last race with the attitude that they would be the last European Championships and here it is again. I just think it’s so nice to be here and play these games, Sällström says.
– What has been common to these times has been that the team has been uniform and we have had a good feeling. It has been our strength and I feel that it is still.
“A good lottery”
Sällström is a goalkeeper Tinja-Riikka Korpelan With the only team member with personal experience of winning in the European Championship.
This means that the duo was involved 16 years ago, when Finland last advanced to the playoffs.
– Now you have to give others these experiences because it’s pretty nice, Sällström laughs.
Finland leaves for each of its opening rounds as an underdog. Both Iceland, Norway and the hostess in Switzerland are above the beads in Fifa.
However, the difference in level for the playing field is not huge. And it can be compensated by successful tactics and a good team game.
– A sequel is definitely possible. It is also our goal. If we do not above it, we are disappointed.
Sällström emphasizes that pearls have to play better in the European Championships than in the spring of the spring. Pink bröijer
In the previous European Championship, the task was “impossible” because the opponents of the opening round (Spain, Denmark, Germany) were from the top of the world.
– We had a good lottery and we have realistic seams to go on, Sällström continues.
– Of course it requires a better game than what we have shown in the spring in the League of Nations. We know that we are a good team and we can challenge teams at this level.
Heat wave
Switzerland is rushing in the heat of the heat wave that shaking Europe. Temperature in the Playground in Thun remains around 30 degrees in the evening while the Hungarian referee Katalin Kulcsár whistling the game.
– It’s really warm there. Personally, I prefer coldness. Now the body is screaming to go to the shade. It’s a spiritual struggle to get yourself whipped.
– It is positive that the Icelanders and the Norwegians are in the same situation. We are on the same line with this heat.