Caroline Seger announced already in the spring that this season would likely be her last, and in the summer, she gave the message:
Every arena I visit now is the last time. My contract expires in December, and then it's over, she said to SVT.
However, during the fall, the 39-year-old has hinted on her Instagram account that she might only play her last minutes in the Rosengård jersey.
"Feeling that it's okay"
When the SM gold was secured on Friday evening at home on Malmö IP via 2–1 against Kristianstad, the midfielder gave a vague answer about the future.
I need to land in everything that has been. Football-wise, it's been incredibly fun, incredibly good. I don't think I'll ever experience a year like this again, she says with the gold hat on her head.
I need to get permission to finish this, see what happens then. It's quite nice to stop at the top, but I need to get to that place and feel that it's okay to leave football.
Rosengård has won all 22 league matches this season and secured the SM gold with four rounds left to play. Extra impressive considering that a player on the team has repeatedly received serious threats during the season.
Moreover, the club was shaken this week – after Monday's away win against Piteå – by an internal conflict. Caroline Seger went on the attack against the club's football manager Roger Palmgren, who took office before the season. This after Palmgren, in Olof Lundh's podcast, described his role in this year's success. An image that was not shared by Seger.
I can't stand that he, who hasn't been involved at all, tries to take credit, said the 39-year-old to Aftonbladet after she expressed the same opinion on her Instagram account, accompanied by a poop emoji.
"Top one"
The turbulent season makes Seger value her seventh SM gold extra highly.
Considering everything that has happened, both on and off the pitch. That we are unbeaten so far. I don't think you can achieve much higher than what we've done. It's probably top one, she says on Malmö IP's inner pitch.
Has what happened bonded you together?
It's hard to analyze it, but we've been very tight as a group. Stood up for each other, and it's been visible on the pitch as well, says Caroline Seger.
Born: March 19, 1985, in Gantofta (39 years old).
Position: Central midfielder.
Club: Rosengård.
Mother club: Stattena.
Clubs: Stattena 2001–2004, Linköping 2005–2009, Philadelphia 2010, Western New York Flash 2011, Ldb FC Malmö 2011, Tyresö 2012–2014, Paris Saint-Germain 2014–2016, Lyon 2016–2017, Rosengård 2017–2024.
National team appearances/goals: 240/32.
Select merits: OS silver 2021 and 2016, World Championship bronze 2023, 2019, and 2011, European Championship bronze 2005, 2013, and 2022, Diamantbollen 2009 and 2019, SM gold with Tyresö 2012, with Ldb Malmö 2011, with Linköping 2009, and with Rosengård 2019, 2021, 2022, and 2024. League winner in the USA with Western New York Flash 2011, French champion, cup winner, and Champions League winner with Lyon 2017.
