{"id":10685,"date":"2021-08-11T16:48:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T11:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=136247"},"modified":"2021-08-11T16:50:30","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T11:20:30","slug":"victor-lindelof-is-the-new-captain-of-the-sweden-national-football-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/victor-lindelof-is-the-new-captain-of-the-sweden-national-football-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Lindelof is the new captain of Sweden National Football team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 27-year old Manchester United defender has been named captain of Sweden on Wednesday. Sweden manager Janne Anderson has decided to take over the captain\u2019s armband from Andreas Granqvist and give it to Victor Lindelof. Victor after being named captain of Sweden is very happy and he finds a greater responsibility to wear his country\u2019s armband.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a very great honour but also a great responsibility. When I was growing up, I dreamed, just like all other young footballers, of playing for Sweden,\u201d Lindelof said during his training in Scotland, as per svenskfotboll.se.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope to be able to lead with my game on the field but also contribute with the routine I have. We have several very good young players who have joined the team,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"sv\" dir=\"ltr\">V\u00e5r nya \ud835\uddf8\ud835\uddee\ud835\uddfd\ud835\ude01\ud835\uddf2\ud835\uddfb! \ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddea <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7z7tnkUdw0\">pic.twitter.com\/7z7tnkUdw0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Svensk Fotboll (@svenskfotboll) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/svenskfotboll\/status\/1425369200412004352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 11, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Swedish defender performed very well for Sweden in the Euro 2020 Cup as well as in the English Premier League for Manchester United last season.\u00a0 In the Euro Cup 2020, Sweden topped their group with 7 points and didn\u2019t lose a single game in the group stage. Sweden\u2019s defending was so good that they only conceded 2 goals in 3 matches in the UEFA Euro 2020 group stage. Sweden lost to Ukraine 2-1 in the round of 16, because of which they couldn\u2019t go forward in the tournament. But, their amazing defending was discussed everywhere. Victor did start in every match of Euro 2020 for Sweden. He was one of their main first-team centre-backs throughout the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Victor also helped his club Manchester United in reaching the Europa League final. But unfortunately, they lost it to Villarreal in the penalties. Janne Anderson sees potential in the 27-year old, that\u2019s why he has made him captain of the Sweden football team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweden National team of football has changed its captain. Manchester United defender Victor Lindelof has been named captain by the Sweden manager Janne Andersson on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":33162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[962,1001,249,645,1765],"class_list":["post-10685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-captain","tag-english-football","tag-manchester-united","tag-sweden","tag-uefa-euro-2020"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}