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Yahoo
04-07-2025
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🚨 Denmark and Sweden confirm their line-ups
Group C of the 2025 Women's EURO gets underway with a high-voltage clash between two Nordic selections. The 2025 Women's EURO continues its course this Friday with a big match to open the day: Denmark and Sweden, two Nordic teams with great potential and high aspirations in the tournament, face off in Geneva for the first match of Group C. Advertisement Denmark comes from being humiliated 6-1 in Solna, a painful result that they want to avenge to mark their territory in the area and head towards qualification from the first place. Denmark's starting lineup Andrée Jeglertz has chosen these players for the debut in the competition. Sweden, on the other hand, is one of the favorites to fight for the title: it occupies the sixth place in the world ranking and has reached the semifinals of the last three major tournaments. However, they cannot trust the last precedent and know they will have a very demanding match. Sweden's starting lineup Peter Gerhardsson, who faces his fifth and last major tournament at the helm of the team, chose this formation for the big debut. This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇪🇸 here. 📸 Eddie Keogh - 2025 Getty Images
Yahoo
03-07-2025
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Andrée Jeglertz appointed as Man City head coach
Manchester City have today appointed Andrée Jeglertz as their new head coach. The 53-year-old former Swedish international will make the move to Manchester after departing his role with the Danish national side. Signing a four-year deal, Andrée Jeglertz will join up with Manchester City following the conclusion of this summer's Euros. Advertisement Jeglertz boasts a strong background in women's football. He won the UEFA Women's Cup (now the Champions League) with Umeå IK in 2004 and led the team to two more finals in 2007 and 2008. During his time there, Umeå also won four league titles and the Swedish Cup. He later spent time managing in the men's game with Djurgårdens IF. In 2010, he took charge of Finland's women's national team, helping them qualify for the 2013 Euros — only the third time in their history — and was named Finnish Manager of the Year in 2012. More recently, he managed Linköpings FC before taking over Denmark after the 2023 World Cup. Under his leadership, Denmark finished second in their Euro qualifying group behind World Champions Spain. They'll face Germany, Poland, and Sweden in Group C this summer. 'The Club is one of the biggest in the world' Speaking on his appointment Jeglertz said 'I'm honoured to be part of this big and great Club, but also excited to get started. I'm really looking forward to it. The Club is one of the biggest in the world. But also the way Therese and Charlotte are presenting the Club. What does it stand for, what do you want from a coach and everything that's connected to football? But there are a lot of things around the Club that make me excited about the job.' Andrée Jeglertz signs for Manchester City as the new Women's Manager at Manchester City Academy on June 09, 2025 in Manchester, England. (Photo by Declan Lloyd/Manchester City FC) Advertisement He continued, 'I think the most important thing for me is to, first of all, how do I maximise the players? What kind of players do we have? What is the philosophy of the Club? And then of course my own philosophy to have a combination of those things. That is what you will see with the team. For me, of course, this team requires a lot of attacking game, a fluent game like we are talking about. But when we don't have the ball, to quickly as possible, and as high up as possible to win the ball back. I would like to control the games and with the ball mostly, and I think with this squad there are a lot of good opportunities for that.' The new City boss was however brutally honest about the sides disappointing 2024/25 campaign. 'There are a lot of things that I think are already very good. The attacking game is very direct in some parts; you're creating a lot of goals. But we need to be better in finding ways to do it in different ways, so we're not just attacking in one way. But also talking about the defending, there are things in watching the games that we can improve. I need to put in more detail of those things. I need to talk about the evaluation from the coaching staff and from the Club in total. What are the things they have seen. After that, add my own ideas.' Related articles from Her Football Hub:
The Guardian
03-07-2025
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- The Guardian
Jeglertz appointed new Manchester City head coach as Tottenham opt for Ho
Manchester City have appointed Andrée Jeglertz as their new women's team head coach on a four-year contract, starting after the conclusion of July's Women's European Championship. Tottenham have also moved to secure their new head coach with the Englishman Martin Ho signing a three-year deal. The Swede Jeglertz is currently in charge of the Denmark women's national side and will remain with them for the tournament. Denmark's Group C campaign gets under way on Friday, just 23 hours after Manchester City confirmed his appointment. The 53-year-old succeeds Gareth Taylor, who was sacked in March, just five days before the club's appearance in last season's League Cup final. The Guardian reported on 4 June that Jeglertz was close to agreeing a deal to move to the WSL side, who finished fourth in the table last term. He is a former European champion as a coach, when in charge of the Swedish club Umeå, in 2004. 'Manchester City is one of the biggest clubs in the world,' Jeglertz said. 'There is so much talent in this group. One of my key things is to continue the job that's been done and take it to the next level. 'I will do everything I can to take this to the next level and make sure we can play attractive and winning football.' Manchester City Women Director of Football, Therese Sjögran, added: 'Andrée brings a wealth of experience at the top of the game as well as a real hunger to drive Manchester City forward. He really impressed us with his attitude and ambition, and the way he sees the game aligns perfectly with our own wish him luck at the Euros this summer with Denmark and are all very excited to see what impact he can make in our bright future.' Ho, meanwhile, has been in charge of the Norwegian club Brann's women's team for two years, since leaving his role as the assistant coach at Manchester United women in July 2023. The 35-year-old is Spurs's replacement for Robert Vilahamn, who was sacked in June after the club finished second from bottom in the WSL last term. He leaves Brann second in the Norwegian top flight midway through their 2025 season, after a second-placed finish last year. He took Brann to the 2023-24 Women's Champions League quarter-finals, where they were eliminated by the eventual champions, Barcelona, which was the furthest a Norwegian side have progressed in the competition. Ho had spent three and a half years at United, initially working with the under-21s in the second half of the 2019-20 season alongside the now Bristol City head coach, Charlotte Healy. Ho then moved up to be Casey Stoney's assistant with the first team in July 2020 and, after Marc Skinner replaced Stoney as head coach in 2021, he spent two years as Skinner's No 2, including a second-placed finish in the WSL in 2023. Born and raised in Mossley Hill in Liverpool, Ho had spells at Everton – as assistant manager – and at Liverpool, where he was the under-21 women's team's head coach. Sign up to Moving the Goalposts No topic is too small or too big for us to cover as we deliver a twice-weekly roundup of the wonderful world of women's football after newsletter promotion Spurs are understood to have been impressed by Ho's passion and his track record of player development, as well as by his results in the Women's Champions League with Brann. Sources have told the Guardian that the club received strong references from around the world in support of Ho.
Associated Press
03-07-2025
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- Associated Press
Euro 2025: Denmark meets Sweden again one month after being routed 6-1
GENEVA (AP) — Losing 6-1 in your last game before a major soccer tournament to the team that also will be your first opponent is not optimal. It is the challenge facing Denmark players Friday when they open their Women's European Championship campaign in Geneva against Sweden. Germany and Poland also are in Group C and play Friday in St. Gallen. 'The things that hurt the most is what teaches you,' Denmark coach Andrée Jeglertz said Thursday in translated comments. 'I am convinced we will see a completely different kind of performance.' Sweden raced to a three-goal lead on Denmark inside 11 minutes on June 3 when winning a Nations League group was at stake, in order to advance to the semifinals later this year. Star forward Stina Blackstenius opened the scoring in the first minute and went on to complete her hat trick. That's all forgotten now insisted Kosovare Asllani, who was captain that night of a Sweden team missing its key defender Magdalena Eriksson. 'It's a one-off that we beat them by 6-1,' Asllani said Thursday. 'We also feel like we've put that match behind us.' Denmark defender Stine Ballisager, who got a close-up view of Sweden's rampant attack, dismissed the risk of focusing on the heavy defeat: 'We know what we stand for.' 'What you build in two years isn't demolished in one match,' coach Jeglertz said, while acknowledging 'after the game, yes, it was tough. 'We have dealt with it in a good way,' said the Denmark coach, who is Swedish. 'It's amazing that we have the opportunity to play the same opponent again without any match in between.' Sweden coach's farewell Sweden coach Peter Gerhardsson was elusive about planning for a quick rematch with the same tactics, suggesting his past philosophy in club soccer was 'always change a winning team.' Gerhardsson will leave after the tournament. In his eight-year tenure, Sweden was twice a World Cup semifinalist, took the silver medal at the Tokyo Olympics and reached the Euro 2022 semifinals. 'We've become more of a playmaking team,' Asllani said of the coach's influence. 'We have the courage to play more fun football, more intense football if you like.' But the 6-1? 'That's not going to matter at all (Friday),' she said. Asllani reaches 200 The 35-year-old midfielder's 200th game for the national team arrives in what she says will be her last tournament. 'Its going to be very special,' Asllani said of her 'enormous sense of pride' reaching the landmark. 'It's a magical number to achieve in a career.' Eriksson vs Harder The duel between Sweden defender Eriksson and Denmark star forward Pernille Harder is much-anticipated duel. The stellar veterans have been a couple for more than a decade and are teammates at Bayern Munich. 'It's quite a special situation,' Harder told tournament organizer UEFA. 'We have tried this a few times before, so we know that when the game starts, we kind of forget that we are partners. We go all in.' Host Geneva's artwork Denmark-Sweden is the first of five Euro 2025 games in Geneva, the city which hosts the European headquarters of the United Nations and commissioned a stunning piece of public art for the tournament. Only aerial shots do justice to the painted grass image of a young girl sketching a chalk outline of a soccer field. It was created by artist Saype in a lakeside park, looking up to the 18th-century villa that hosted a 2021 diplomatic summit between then-U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin. ___ AP soccer:
The Guardian
26-06-2025
- Sport
- The Guardian
Women's Euro 2025 team guides: Denmark
This article is part of the Guardian's Euro 2025 Experts' Network, a cooperation between some of the best media organisations from the 16 countries who qualified. is running previews from two teams each day in the run-up to the tournament kicking off on 2 July. Everything was going fine for Denmark in the buildup. There weren't too many injury worries or key players retiring. Results had been decent – until the last Nations League game against Sweden. With everything to play for, Denmark not only lost the match that could have secured them a first-place finish in League A for the first time – they were demolished 6-1 by the side they are playing in their first game at Euro 2025. 'I've been part of this team for many years but I think this is the worst I've experienced,' the midfielder Sanne Troelsgaard told Aftonbladet after the game. 'We need to take a good look at ourselves.' That disappointment will cast a shadow over Denmark's hopes, but there is still optimism. Qualifying for the tournament was impressive, including getting close to a famous result in Spain: Andrée Jeglertz's side were 2-0 up after 72 minutes in Tenerife, but ultimately lost 3-2. The Czech Republic and Belgium posed few problems and with an attacking, possession-based style, hopes of a silver-summer a la 2017 have been reignited. 'Naturally, we dream of winning medals, and we will give everything to create an unforgettable red-and-white summer together with the Danish fans,' said the captain and star striker Pernille Harder. This will be the first, and only, major tournament under the Swedish head coach Jeglertz, and he has a few tactical puzzles to solve. Firstly, Denmark won't have played another match before heading to Switzerland, meaning that 6-1 defeat is the last outing before they face Sweden again. Secondly, question marks remain over the preferred starting XI – particularly the right-sided position in the back three, as well as the right wing-back role, both still up for grabs. Andrée Jeglertz has been in charge of Denmark since autumn 2023, when he replaced Lars Søndergaard after the last-16 exit from the World Cup. His contract runs out in the summer and he has made it clear he does not want to extend it. A return to club football beckons. Jakob Michelsen will take over after the tournament, inheriting a squad that Jeglertz has shaped to compete with – and on their day beat – the best. Born in Malmö, Jeglertz managed several top clubs in Sweden, including leading Umeå to a Champions League title in 2004. He also spent six years as head coach of Finland women. Pernille Harder will go down as one of the greatest players in Danish football history. The all-time top scorer is an icon and an inspiration for countless girls and boys across the country. 'She's a legend and it's a huge honour to be allowed to play alongside her,' the goalkeeper Maja Bay Østergaard has said. 'She's simply a world-class star.' Jeglertz agrees: 'She's not just a player, but a great role model … in everything she does,' he told Harder is an eight-time Danish player of the year, two-time Uefa Women's Player of the Year and twice a winner of The Guardian's Top 100. Sara Holmgaard has enjoyed a standout season at Everton, voted women's player of the season by her teammates. Scoring an Olimpico goal [direct from a corner] and setting up others, she's been a constant threat down the left. After such an impressive campaign it's no surprise that bigger clubs have taken noticeand made her a target this summer. And it's not just at club level where she's made her mark – Holmgaard has also cemented herself as Denmark's first-choice left wing-back, edging out Sofie Svava of Lyon. Sign up to Moving the Goalposts No topic is too small or too big for us to cover as we deliver a twice-weekly roundup of the wonderful world of women's football after newsletter promotion The Danish league is on the rise. The major broadcaster TV 2 has acquired the rights from next season, and some of the biggest clubs in the men's game, such as FC Copenhagen and FC Midtjylland, are slowly climbing up the divisions, helping to attract bigger crowds and more sponsors. Despite this, however, Fortuna Hjørring remained the team to beat in 2024-25, proving unstoppable and winning the double. While it remains largely semi-professional, with most of the best Danish players playing abroad, progress is being made. Brøndby, for example, became the first club to go fully professional last winter. Denmark have the quality to beat anyone, and their ambition is to advance from the group stage. But Sweden and Germany look stronger, and for that reason, the group stage will most likely mark the end of the road. The Denmark team guide was written by Sofie Engberg Munch for TV 2 Denmark.
