The national team stars about Gothenburg: "Not professional at all"

Just before New Year, the shocking news came that Gothenburg had decided to close down its elite operations and withdraw from the damallsvenskan.

The coming days were marked by uncertainty, but on New Year's Eve, Gothenburg announced that they were still playing in the damallsvenskan, but with a hope that a men's elite club would take over the business.

At the end of January, this was the case when Gothenburg became BK Häcken FF.

"Sick"

From the outside, the players in Rosengård could follow the tours around the gold competitor, and they did not like at all how it went.

-I thought it was completely sick.

You have to think that these are people.

There are many who first lost their jobs, the future was uncertain and someone has just signed to go there.

Many of them are my friends too, so it's hard to see when your friends are not really feeling well, says Rosengård's Nathalie Björn.

The teammate in the club and the national team, Caroline Seger, is on the same track.

-I was very sad first and foremost for the girls.

It came as a shock to everyone and I did not think it was handled professionally at all.

The positive thing in everything is that the solution has been very good and an investment from Häcken's side that I view positively and I think it will be great for the future, says Seger.

TT: What was not handled professionally?

-I never think that it has happened on either the men's or women's side that one day you go out and tell the whole of Sweden that you are going to close down a club.

After such a year as Gothenburg had and with that history, I think it was very poorly managed.

You do not do that simply, she says.

"Requires a lot of work"

In the end, however, the outcome turned out well, according to both Björn and Seger.

In their new club suit, the Häcken players have been given better conditions and the competitors in Rosengård believe that it is good for Swedish women's football.

But it can also make the reigning champions an even bigger threat.

-They get completely different conditions than what they have had before, which is great fun for women's football.

It is clear that they are big competitors to us, but I only see it as positive and feel that it can develop women's football, says Nathalie Björn.

Caroline Seger:

-Better conditions will increase the chances that it will be a very successful club.

But we have also been for many years and we have had the very best conditions.

It takes a long time and requires a lot of work, but it is a club to be reckoned with.

TT: Does Rosengård have to do something to keep up?

-I think I should do that all the time.

It should be the goal to get even better conditions and create the best opportunities around the players in order to take bigger and more steps towards being able to compete in the Swedish team and also in Europe, says Seger.