When Hammarby secured the SM gold last year, they also secured a chance to try out Champions League games for the first time.
But when the qualifiers start, you will not be able to play at the Tele 2 arena – it is booked by the men’s team.
Something that upsets former national team goalkeeper Hedvig Lindahl.
“Women’s football has a history of not being respected. When you send signals of lack of respect, you risk a lot, you feel it in the heart of a women’s soccer player,” she writes on https://twitter.com/hedvig_lindahl/status/1783050630346498353.
To Expressen, Göran Rickmer, security and event manager in Hammarby, says that they do not want to go in and screw up the men’s league games and are looking for other options.
– The arenas we want to play in cannot be used.
Home game in another city
To the newspaper, Rickmer does not rule out the options of playing at Sirius’ home ground Studenternas or Brommapojkarnas Grimsta.
“Many have been impressed by the work done in Hammarby. Therefore, I hope there is an explanation other than lack of respect. In that case, it must be communicated, otherwise you risk destroying something fundamentally,” writes Lindahl.
Kanal ground, where the team plays several of its home games, currently does not meet the requirements of European football’s governing body Uefa for facilities or pitches.
Hedvig Lindahl has declined an interview request. SVT Sport has applied for Göran Rickmer.
