Sweden's Women Wear Motivational Shirt
08.21
Anyone watching Sweden's national women's team play
this week should take a close look at the back of the players' shirts. You won't see the footballers' names
-- but you could find something that inspires you.
The players chose tweets from
well-known Swedish women, such as singer Zara Larsson, to be put where their
surnames would normally appear.
The team, which won silver at the Rio 2016 Olympics,
released the shirts this week as it competes at the Algarve Cup in Portugal.
Sweden's Football Association
said it hopes the initiative -- titled #InYourName -- would "inspire and
motivate other women to stand up for each other and themselves -- and to show
that nothing is impossible."
A tweet from singer Larsson
saying "Believe in your damn self" is worn by Lisa Dahlkvist, while
fellow midfielder Olivia Schough's shirt bears a message which reads:
"Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind.
Always."
Now ranked eighth in the world,
Sweden was a surprise finalist at Rio 2016, where it lost 2-1 to Germany in the gold medal match.
Swedish FA communications director
Niklas Bodell said the team's success -- which included a penalty shootout win
over defending champion the United States -- was a good example of "the
power in togetherness."
The Algarve tournament is running
at the same time as the SheBelieves Cup.
In its second year, the
four-nation invitational event was conceived by US national team players in
order to inspire new generations of young girls and women "to be better
and strive for better."
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