Following Tottenham Hotspur’s recent signings, we now get to see the club getting called a ‘Swedish colony’ by the Stockholm media.
That comes from a story by Sportbladet, who now highlights the arrivals of Matilda Vinberg and Amanda Nildén to the Spurs Women squad.
Their journalists managed to check on the girls’ training sessions and were even able to have a word with them about their choice to join Tottenham.
Vinberg pointed out it wasn’t an easy decision to leave Hammarby, the Swedish club he stayed at for years.
“It was very hard, so hard. I couldn’t decide. The gut feeling said I was going to Tottenham, that I was going to move. But I didn’t want to say it outright to anyone, precisely because I had never been in such a good environment in terms of group dynamics as in Hammarby. It was like my family” Vinberg told Aftonbladet.
“It was an extremely tough decision to make. I really made the decision at the last second.”
She also recalled how hard it was for her family to see her leaving for English football at the time.
“Mother was completely devastated. ‘Are you going to leave?!’
“Yes, grandmother too! She just, ‘I check on Hammarby all the time'”. She was here a few weeks ago and thought it was so strange to see me playing in the ‘wrong shirt’.”
Tottenham are currently sixth in the WSL table, and will soon play Manchester City in the quarter-finals of the FA Women’s Cup.
Along with Dejan Kulusevski and the upcoming arrival of Lucas Bergvall, Vinberg and Nildén are indeed forming a small group of Swedish players at Spurs, and we shall continue to see that much attention from the local press towards the club, let it be in the men’s or women’s team.
