Hedvig Lindahl is out on the last trip with Wolfsburg. On Thursday she went on a bus with the other football players of the Bundesliga champion for the German cup final against Essen in Cologne on Saturday.

The 37-year-old national team goalkeeper's contract expires in connection with the match and on Tuesday she leaves Wolfsburg with the family. Lindahl has since just over a month ago made clear with a new club, she says they will officially introduce her in the coming days.

"Would love to stay"

- I can't say it yet, the club wants that news. I have to wait a bit to confirm, but it will be fun and require me to stay at a high level still, says Lindahl.

In any case, she confirms that it will not be a move home to Sweden or back to England where she previously played for Chelsea.

- It will be a new country. This year in Germany has been educational in this way: How to learn a new culture, a new language and the process around it. It feels like I might be able to do it even better.

Spain or France?

- We'll see.

How long have you signed a contract?

- Two years.

Lindahl was recruited to Wolfsburg after the World Cup bronze with Sweden in France last summer, but the club has chosen to target other goalkeepers ahead of next season.

- Honestly, I wanted to stay. But the club chose to reunite with a younger player (Polish Katarzyna Kiedrzynek) for a longer period. I had to accept that and it feels good at the same time. Now I got to be here this year and have to leave and think it was really good. Things can actually change during the second year, so this turned out to be a good year.

Real Madrid reputation

It has been speculated that the Swede could be a first major acquisition of Real Madrid, which on Wednesday officially took over CD Tacón's team where Swedes Kosovare Asllani and Sofia Jakobsson have been playing since.

Lindahl neither confirms nor denies the rumor.

- What I can say about Real Madrid, now that they have finally, officially, come in with a women's team, is that it feels like a shift in women's football. Now we have the really big player and everything that is about players and budgets will certainly reach new heights now. It will surely change quickly, she says.

Whether it is to Spain or any other European country to which the relocation will go at the beginning of next week, Lindahl will opt out of the flight during the corona pandemic.

- It can probably be stuff on the road, everything will not go smoothly. But we hope it will go well. In any case, we have chosen to travel through the ground, not to fly, to keep the risk low for the children and ourselves.