Their Pitch

With the Euro 2022 underway, Willie Kirk and Mia Eriksson are joined by Rafa Roldan, assistant head coach and analyst in Hammarby’s women’s team and former Spanish national goalkeeper Eli Sarasola who now works as a coach and analyst for Your Vantage. Recorded in the morning July 10 we talk and analyze the group games played so far.

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Laura Freigang is set to play her first, big international tournament with Germany. In this episode Freigang talks about what it means to be selected to play for a national team with such a big winning mentality and holds so many big stars. She let's us know what she would've have told the younger version of herself with what she knows today and she gets into football analysis to share thoughts on what's the most important things to think about playing as a forward for both club and country. 

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Maren Mjelde got injured in March 2021 and has recently made her way back to the pitch. In this episode, she talks about her journey back, the competition in the WSL and in the Champions League and what it means to her to play for Norway. She also talks about the support from her family and about what her brother said when she hung the WSL medal around his neck after winning the third consecutive league title in a row with the Blues. 

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Episode 27 is our first Euro 2022 special featuring professional football coach Willie Kirk. He will be our sidekick and expert throughout the tournament and in this first Euro episode we are joined by Tom Garry, football journalist on The Telegraph in the UK and Jesper Haglöf, football analyst at PlayMakerAI. We talk about Sweden's chances to finally win a gold medal with Peter Gerhardsson as head coach, the group of death (Spain, Germany, Denmark and Finland) and of course, we ask ourselves: Will it come home? Oh, and also, Willie and Tom go up against each other in a quiz about Sweden. How much do they know about the Swedish national team? Listen to find out!

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In this mini-version of Their Pitch Amanda talk with Ella Toone from Manchester United and the English national team. Ella shares her expectations on the UEFA Women's Euro 2022 that will be played in her home country, what it means to play for the Lionesses and how it would feel to step out at Old Trafford, her club's "home ground" in the national team shirt. 

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In this episode of Their Pitch, our guest is the Swedish head coach Peter Gerhardsson. He talks about the idea he had and wanted to try on the Swedish women's national team when he got the job, about the importance of coaching each other and about that his belief is that it all comes down to the players themselves if they really want to get better and learn new things on the pitch. 

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Martin Sjögren won the Damallsvenskan with Linköping FC back in 2016 and was shortly after, announced as Norway's new head coach. Worth mentioning is that he also won the Swedish league title twice with LdB FC Malmö in 2010 and 2011. In this episode Sjögren reflects about opinions about the way he coaches and expectations on the upcoming UEFA Women's Euro 2022 in England. 

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This week's Their Pitch guest is Denmark's head coach Lars Søndergaard. In this episode, he shares the thoughts he had before going into coaching women's football, what Denmark's captain Pernille Harder means to the team and the expectations he has for the UEFA Women's Euro 2022 in England.

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This week’s Their Pitch player is Swedish international defender Magdalena Eriksson. On this episode we talk about her national team career, what kind of advice she would have given to her younger self and who she would want to go up against in a Euros final. That and as usual a lot of tactical analysis.

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This week’s Their Pitch player is English goalkeeper Mary Earps. On this episode we talk about her national team career, what it means to play the Euros on home soil and her journey to become one of the top goalkeepers in English football. That and as usual a lot of tactical analysis.

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