If her team wins the World Cup, Swedish soccer player Lina Hurtig might have a special new tattoo in mind.
With tears in her eyes, Megan Rapinoe tried to comfort her distraught teammates. But the world-renowned USA star was just as overcome by her emotions. The defending champion and record winner lost to Sweden in the round of 16 at the World Cup – and that dramatically.
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In the 4:5 (0:0, 0:0) penalty shoot-out, Lina Hurtig’s decisive Swedish goal was checked using goal-line technology, the ball was only just behind the line. Now the Swede could immortalize her shot with a tattoo, but only if her country wins the World Cup, the Guardian reports.
The Swedes celebrated their coup exuberantly, in the regular season they were clearly inferior. Only with great difficulty and thanks to the strong goalkeeper Zecira Musovic Sweden saved themselves on penalties.
Lina Hurtig does not want to rule out anything in the event of success
Reactions from home then ranged from congratulations to a suggestion that she get a tattoo of the viral image of the penalty kick as it crossed the goal line. “I said that now we have Japan (the next opponent of the Swedish team; Editor’s note) have to hit, otherwise everything is in vain,” Hurtig is quoted as saying by the Guardian. “But if we win gold, that’s not out of the question.”
In the quarter-finals on Friday (9.30 a.m. CEST) against Japan. “I’m so happy, I don’t know how we did it, we fought as a team,” said Hurtig’s teammate Magdalena Eriksson in the ARD game broadcast. The song “Dancing Queen” by Sweden’s most famous band ABBA was then played in the stadium.
Sources: DPA
Source: Stern
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