The Swede Pia Sundhage is to be introduced as coach of the Swiss women’s national soccer team on Tuesday. Captain Lia Wälti is looking forward to their international experience.
Pia Sundhage, here at the 2023 World Cup as Brazil’s national coach.
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(eva/bir.) On Tuesday at 11 a.m., the Swiss Football Association SFV will present the new women’s national coach. The name is said to have appeared briefly on the SFV homepage on Monday evening. As a result, 63-year-old Pia Sundhage will take over as coach. Sources confirmed a report from “Blue” to the Keystone SDA.
The Swede is a big name in football: she coached the US women to Olympic victory in 2008 and 2012. She then coached the Swedes and most recently the Brazilians. At the 2023 World Cup she failed with the South Americans in the preliminary round.
As a player, she appeared 146 times for Sweden and became European champion in 1984.
Swiss captain Lia Wälti is looking forward to Sundhage’s international experience, as she said on Monday on the sidelines of Swiss Football Night. “We have seen how important this is.” She herself doesn’t know too much about the Swede. Apart from the fact that she attaches great importance to fitness, she expects intensive training. Wälti sees the engagement of a renowned coach as a positive sign a year and a half before the home European Championship: “It shows that the association is pushing women’s football.”