Sweden’s Football Renaissance: How a Nation of 10 Million Accidentally Became the World’s Last Optimists
Sweden’s national football team, once the polite cousin who brought lingonberry jam to Europe’s raucous potluck, has lately become the guest who drinks everyone else’s aquavit and starts quoting existentialist poetry at 3 a.m. The Blågult’s recent flirtation with relevance—qualifying for Euro 2024 after a play-off that resembled a Nordic noir cliff-hanger—has rippled far beyond…