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Yahoo
5 days ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
Hjalmarsson To Start Season With Linkoping In Sweden
Sara Hjalmarsson will hit the ice in full stride when PWHL camps open in November. The Swedish veteran, who was a fifth round pick, 35th overall, of the PWHL's Toronto Sceptres in 2025, has signed to start the season in the SDHL with Linkoping.
Yahoo
26-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Euro 2025: Denmark team guide – a side centered around goalscorer Pernille Harder
Denmark is among a select class of European nations whose women's national team have been involved in some of the most pivotal moments in the history of the game. That status earns them the right to seldom get counted out of a competition. Denmark's roots are too strong. That said, time is waning for Denmark to break free of its current archetype as the mid-table team likely to manage OK against smaller nations and cause problems for the powerhouses. Advertisement They have plenty of experience on the sport's biggest stages — four World Cup appearances, most recently advancing to the knockout stage in 2023, and 10 qualifications for the European Championship, where they were finalists in 2017 — but with an enduring lack of high-caliber players, the Danes appear to be in a state of determined seeking. Still, this is a team with a high propensity to surprise, especially in a tournament structure. Who is the manager? Andree Jeglertz has been with the Denmark national team since their World Cup exit in 2023, joining them from Linkoping in the Damallsvenskan, the top division of women's football in Sweden. A Swede himself, Jeglertz has spent the majority of his managerial career in his homeland, most notably at Umea IK from 2004 to 2008, where he coached Brazilian forward Marta and won the 2003-04 UEFA Women's Cup (today's Champions League). Advertisement Jeglertz has gone 13-1-8 with the national team, marked by the high of a 2-0 victory over Germany in 2023 and the low of missing out on qualification for last year's Olympics. His contract is up at the conclusion of the tournament, and recent reports have linked the 52-year-old with the vacant head coach role at Manchester City Women. How do they play? With a goalscoring talisman such as Pernille Harder in the squad, it's neither a surprise nor a secret that Denmark has built its attack around her. The 32-year-old Bayern Munich attacker is still very much in form for club and country. If midfielders aren't slicing through opposition back lines with balls to Harder, they, and the team's other strikers, are exploiting the spaces left open by her gravitational pull and going directly at goal themselves. Defensively, they seem most comfortable in a mid-block, willing to risk getting caught and exposed in the space behind to capitalise on their attacking threats. Who are their three most influential players? Nobody has scored more goals for Denmark's women's side than Harder, and the 162 caps worth of experience she brings makes it difficult to imagine the team finding success without her involvement. Winner of the UEFA Women's Player of the Year award in 2018 and 2020, Harder is at her best and most terrifying when she has the ball at her feet and space to dribble, which she does at such a pace that she becomes exceedingly difficult to defend. Advertisement Signe Bruun will also be key to Denmark's European Championship challenge, her sturdy presence in midfield, with and without the ball, offering a potentially complementary dynamic with the quick-footed Josefine Hasbo. What is their biggest strength? Their attack. The Danes' technical tidiness on the ball makes for the kind of offensive movement that can be tough to defend if they string enough of those passes together. And with defenders such as Isabella Obaze, who has been sharpening her tools in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) with Portland Thorns, their back line should be able to handle physicality and direct play that much more. What weakness might other teams be able to exploit? If a team can contain Harder — and it's safe to assume this will be a top priority without even needing to view a scouting report — they could be in trouble without a suitable striker to step into her role and get balls into the back of the net. And while their midblock provides some defensive cover, a strong opponent won't have too much trouble overloading it or outrunning the back line with balls played in behind. Any notable absences? Though Sofie Svava may have been expected to claim a spot on Denmark's roster due to the prestige of her club resumé — the 24-year-old defender is currently at OL Lyonnes and has previously played for Real Madrid, Wolfsburg, Rosengard and Brondby — she was curiously left off. Advertisement Svava has been playing with Denmark in the Nations League recently, so it's possible her performances were outshone by the younger Obaze, who is 22, and her contribution of experience did not match up to 36-year-old Sanne Troelsgaard, both of whom did make the squad. What is their strongest starting XI? How have they performed over the past 12 months? Denmark has played just nine games in the past year, which is partly down to not having made the Olympics. Six of those nine were against only three teams — Sweden, Italy and Wales, facing each twice in the Nations League. This hasn't offered much schedule diversity upon which to form a strong and accurate opinion, but beating Wales twice, splitting points with Italy and losing twice to Sweden (including a 6-1 demolition as recently as June 3) suggests this team has not regressed, but nor has it necessarily improved. Advertisement Last October, the Danes also secured a 5-0 win against South Africa and were defeated 2-1 by the Netherlands, reinforcing the previous point about their stasis. What are they expected to achieve at these Euros? Denmark and Sweden shared a group in the Nations League and do so again at the Euro 2025, giving the Danes plenty of homework heading into the latter event, where the teams face off in what is the opening fixture for both on July 4. Sweden and Germany may be the favorites to advance to the quarterfinals on paper, but rivals Denmark and Poland have shown just enough in recent competitions to pose veritable threats, making Group C as a whole the most wide open to a plot twist. All of these teams can shock each other, but Denmark will absolutely need to handle business against Poland in the teams' third and final first-phase game to stand a fighting chance against the giants in the group. Did you know? The Denmark women's national team encompasses Greenland, whose national teams are not recognised by FIFA. This article originally appeared in The Athletic. Denmark, Women's Soccer, Women's Euros 2025 The Athletic Media Company
BBC News
20-05-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Arsenal's Maanum signs new contract
Arsenal midfielder Frida Maanum has signed a new contract with the Norway international joined the Gunners from Sweden's Linkoping FC in July 2021 and has gone on to make 150 appearances, scoring 40 goals."I love playing for this club, everything about it – the supporters, the community, playing at Emirates Stadium," Maanum said. "Seeing how the club has developed over the last few years only makes me more excited to continue my journey here."We've had such special moments this season and getting to share those with our supporters has been amazing, I'm looking forward to continuing celebrating with them and giving everything for this team."Renee Slegers added: "I'm delighted that Frida has signed a new contract here with us. She's such an important player in the group and has made a big contribution to what we've achieved as a group during my time as head coach. I know Frida has the ambition and drive to continue striving for improvement as we continue to aim to compete for the highest honours together."
The Independent
07-05-2025
- Health
- The Independent
People more likely to empathise with groups than individuals, study finds
People are more willing to empathise with groups of people rather than individuals, a study suggests. Empathy – a person's ability to understand and share the feelings of another – is also viewed as 'distressing' when compared with remaining neutral, researchers said. The study, led by scientists in Sweden and published in the journal Frontiers In Psychology, involved 296 people. They underwent a test involving two blocks of pictures, one of individuals and the other of groups of people. They were also presented with two decks of cards, one of which asked them to try to empathise and the other which asked them to remain neutral. When given a picture to react to, the participants were asked to write down three keywords to describe the feelings of the people in the images or their appearance. They were also asked to rate how much effort empathising took, or if they found the process distressing. Researchers found people chose to stay objective to individuals compared with when they were faced with a group. In both situations, empathising was also rated as distressing and more effort. Dr Hajdi Moche, of Linkoping University in Sweden, said: 'People's willingness to empathise is different depending on who the target is: a single individual or a group of people. 'Specifically, people were more willing to empathise with a group than an individual, although empathising was rated as more effortful and distressing compared to staying objective – for both the individual and the group.' When faced with images of an individual, people chose to empathise 34% of the time, researchers found. However, during the block of group pictures, people empathised 53% of the time. This happened even though empathising was rated as harder and more distressing than remaining objective. Dr Moche added: 'The task of trying to share the internal experiences of the other requires more effort, imagination and understanding of what the person might feel compared to describing external features like hair colour. 'To share in the internal experiences might be especially hard when the information at hand is only a neutral facial expression without any body language or background context.' Dr Moche suggested further studies could pit images of individuals and groups against each other to see which people would prefer to empathise with 'In this way, we would have a direct comparison in willingness to empathise when the target is an individual versus a group of people,' she added.
