It’s become the general tradition that when a footballer joins a new club, is promoted to the first team, or makes their first squad appearance for the national side, that they’re often expected to put on a show.
Now just on the pitch, but off it too. Singing initiations have increasingly become the norm, and the poor player involved has to stand on a table and belt out a song whilst all his new teammates usually laugh at him.
It was no different for Tottenham Hotspur’s Lucas Bergvall. Having agreed a deal to join Spurs earlier, the Sweden international arrived this summer and was presented his turn with the stage.
Speaking to Aftonbladet, the 18-year-old said: “I sang Abbas’s “Dancing Queen”. It was really, really bad. I was booed afterwards.”
Now he knows it’s going to have to happen with Sweden as well, being a new boy for the national team. He’s plainly not looking forward to it, but at least he’ll have Dejan Kulusevski there to look after him.
