Sweden's unknown WC tournament: "On life and death"
Sweden's World Cup premiere here in New Zealand is played on Sunday.
At least the one in football, because already on Monday another championship started at the Swedish base: the Cornhole WC.
- It really is life and death, it seems, says Kosovare Asllani.
In the building where the dining room is combined with the living room, there are ping-pong tables, hanging TV screens and there is a cornhole.
- That is an important part. If we are to be here all the way, it will be 40-45 days. We've also talked about how it's not just what we do on the field, but what culture we want off the field, says football psychology advisor Rasmus Liljeblad.
It was he who recently introduced cornhole in the national team and it has quickly become popular. It's a fairly simple game where you have to throw bags on a board.
You get one point if the bag lands on the board and three if it goes down the hole.
Taken very seriously
While waiting for the soccer World Cup to start, the group stage in the Cornhole World Cup has started, with Liljeblad as the tournament organizer.
- I think it's perfect here. There will also be a small audience. We had maybe 20-25-30 spectators at a match. It will be a gathering point that I think is incredibly important for us.
And this is taken very seriously.
When Magdalena Eriksson talks about it, she weighs her hands at about the same height in front of her face and says that it is almost as important as the impending football championship, with a twinkle in her eye.
"Then we wouldn't have deserved to be included"
Eriksson forms a team with Fridolina Rolfö, but they have had a tough start. The centre-back says they got off to a bad start but a necessary win against the physios.
- If we had lost it, I think we would have withdrawn from the tournament. Then we wouldn't have deserved to be included.
When Rebecka Blomqvist is asked how things are going for her and teammate Jennifer Falk, she doesn't even want to reveal who they recently lost to.
- It was a real bummer. We'll take them in the final later, I think, she says.
- We probably ended up in the heat group, I think, says Jennifer Falk.
Really excited
It is group B that she paints as that. A group that also includes Kosovar Asllani .
- If you had met her, it would have been incredibly heated, says Magdalena Eriksson.
- We are competitive people, you cannot take part in any game without inciting or wanting to win. Of course it gets a little heated, says Asllani himself and continues:
- Even if you meet leaders, or materialists...
Some incite, others send more subtle psychs.
But according to Magdalena Eriksson, who is in group A, the biggest cheerleaders are not in the tournament.
- If Filippa Angeldahl and Nathalie Björn had been there, they would have been. Now they won the last tournament, so they don't want to come in and do worse.
Competitions good for the group
This is not the first time that the national team has competitions on the side. In France in 2019, for example, "Exploding Kitten" was played and the psychologist believes that this has an important effect on the group.
- You get a sense of togetherness and that you spend time together. If you start a match, people gather there.
In hotels, it is not always possible to get to the large open spaces that Sweden has at its base here in Upper Hutt, half an hour north of Wellington.
- Then you eat and then you go up to your rooms. There is a feeling that you are very isolated. Although it isn't. This still gives this bonus, you feel it becomes like a family.
There is also not much going on around the Swedish base, so all kinds of activities are important to cure the boredom.
Stepping into a major championship also means a lot of pressure, so having something to think about other than football sometimes looks blue and yellow as a key if you want to go far.
- It's a bit of a switch on, switch off. I think it's so damn important to be able to do. That once we're connected, we're connected, but you also need to relax in between, says Asllani.
Expect a full house at the final
The group stage, where there are two groups with seven teams in each, ends before Sweden steps into the World Cup on Sunday. It is up to the teams themselves to find match times. Then the playoffs await before match two.
For Jonna Andersson and Elin Rubensson, the first goal is to progress from the group stage, then anything can happen. There may even be talk of lay-in matches.
- So we can hope that we get a simple opposition there. We'll see. I already think that the final picture tree is drawn so that we will see how we will do before the last two group stage matches, Andersson says with a smile.
The tournament organizer Liljeblad expects several audience matches once the playoffs start and hopes for a full crowd for the final.
- WE still have a lot of days between match 1 and match 2. So taking the playoffs in between is the plan right now. But it shouldn't bother.
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Lenny Kravitz släpper ny singel och NSFW-musikvideon ”TK421”
Internationellt hyllade artisten Lenny Kravitz har just släppt sin senaste singel "TK421" tillsammans med en banbrytande musikvideo. Videon gör idag världsomspännande debut på YouTube och Global Broadcast Premiär på MTV:s globala nätverk av kanaler och premiärspelas nationellt på iHeart-radiostationer. Kravitz släpper nytt album och sin första dubbel-LP någonsin Blue Electric Light den 15 mars.
Idag återvänder Lenny Kravitz med en helt ny singel och NSFW-musikvideo med titeln "TK421”. Videon är regisserad av den hyllade videoregissören Tanu Muino. Albumet är Lenny Kravitz 12:e fullängdsalbum, första release på fem år och första dubbel-LP någonsin. Blue Electric Light släpps den 15 mars 2024 (Roxie Records/BMG).
Första singeln ”TK421” är fylld med extatiska funkgitarrer, robotbaserade analoga syntar, smutsig talkbox, ett dansgolvsbeat, ett brinnande saxofonsolo och en flirt till både Boogie Nights och Star Wars som driver upp den fartfyllda rock 'n' roll-låten. Musikvideon förstärker dock bara låtens fria själ, och du kommer att se Kravitz som du aldrig har sett honom. Det är onödigt att säga mer, eftersom allt är på skärmen.
Tidlös. Explosiv. Romantisk. Inspirerande. Hur ska man annars karakterisera Blue Electric Light, Lenny Kravitz 12:e studioalbum? Kravitz skrev och spelade in albumet i sin studio på Bahamas och hans makt över deep-soul rock 'n roll är återigen etablerad här. Som en obeveklig kreativ kraft som musiker, författare, producent, skådespelare, designer, fortsätter han att vara globalt dynamisk med närvaro genom musik, konst och kultur. Blue Electric Light är det passionerade senaste bidraget från en man vars musik – för att inte tala om hans unika stil – fortsätter att inspirera miljoner världen över. På albumet pendlar Kravitz talanger som författare, producent och multiinstrumentalist. Han skrev och spelade de flesta instrumenten själv med den mångårige gitarristen Craig Ross. I slutändan skapades tolv låtar som återspeglar arvet som en genrebrytande banbrytare som också är fast förankrad i energin från 2000-talet och framåt.
Denna lysande värld av Blue Electric Light kommer att utvecklas när han avslöjar mer från albumet inom en snar framtid.
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Lenny Kravitz anses vara en av vår tids mest framstående rockmusiker. Han har överskridit genre, stil, ras och klass under en musikalisk karriär på tre decennier. Genom att frossa i soul, rock och funk influerat av sextio- och sjuttiotalet har författaren, producenten och multiinstrumentalisten vunnit fyra raka Grammy®-priser samt satt rekordet för flest vinster i kategorin "Bästa manliga rocksång". Utöver sina elva studioalbum som har sålt 40 miljoner över hela världen, har den multidimensionella artisten dykt upp som Cinna i The Hunger Games och The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Kravitz kan också ses i de kritikerrosade filmerna Precious och The Butler. Hans kreativa företag Kravitz Design Inc. presenterar en imponerande portfölj av anmärkningsvärda satsningar, inklusive hotellfastigheter, bostadsrättsprojekt, privata bostäder och avancerade legendariska varumärken som Rolex, Leica och Dom Perignon. 2022 lanserade han sitt eget ultra-premium-spritmärke, Nocheluna Sotol – ett destillat från Chihuahua, Mexiko som härrör från Sotolfabriken. Han erkändes också av CFDA 2022 med deras "Fashion Icon Award" för sin roll som inte bara en av rockens mest uppskattade musiker, utan också ett stort modeinflytande. Kravitz är också författare till Flash, en bok som visar upp unik rockfotografi. Hans senaste memoarer ”Let Love Rule” hamnade på New York Times bestsellerlista. Lenny släppte sitt elfte fullängdsalbum 2018, Raise Vibration. Han fungerar för närvarande som varumärkesambassadör och globalt ansikte för ”YSL Beautys Y cologne”. Senast valdes han till Hollywood Walk of Fame 2023.
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Ikea SP Premiär Painting Add-ons
Just dropping here two new add-on meshes for the Ikea city painting, one medium-sized and a smaller one. They're repo'd to the original thingy and will pull its recolors. The paintings are lowered so Apartment Life is kinda required.
There's already a perfectly good one-tile add-on for this painting. I wanted a version that's a bit larger than strictly one tile wide so that's what my medium-size version is.
Download (SFS) (alternate) - files are compressed, Ikea SP is required. The smaller one costs §25 and the medium one §145.
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