This is a feature in Issue 23 of Sounders Monthly, Sounders FC’s original magazine. They are available for free at The NINETY, Soccer Celebration, GuestLink Services locations and Membership Central as well as the Northwest, Northeast, Southwest and South gates.
Gustav Svensson needs you to know he’s joking.
Ahead of the 2018 FIFA World Cup last summer, Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet interviewed Svensson, who made three appearances and one start in the Swedes’ run to the quarterfinals. This is what he told the paper about playing in the United States:
“Things are a bit strange sometimes.