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Celtic Ladies in Champions League: Elena Sadiku intent on sustaining focus amid pleasure of debut in opposition to Twente
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Celtic Ladies in Champions League: Elena Sadiku intent on sustaining focus amid pleasure of debut in opposition to Twente

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Celtic head coach Elena Sadiku is ignoring the historical past of Tuesday’s Ladies’s Champions League opener in opposition to Twente to focus solely on the match.

Sadiku will turn into the youngest coach within the male or feminine model of the Champions League when she leads Celtic into the group stage for the primary time, breaking the document set by Julian Nagelsmann with Hoffenheim in 2018.

It’s also the primary time any Scottish membership has certified for this stage of European ladies’s soccer and so far as Celtic have ever gone within the competitors.

“I don’t know, maybe I’m crazy that I can just focus on what I need to focus on, but it’s been very busy as well,” Sadiku mentioned. “It’s always another game, it’s always another game. Right now, I’m living in a wheel that is just keep going, keep going, keep going.

“I am not desirous about what we now have achieved and stuff. I’m simply specializing in tips on how to be sure that I’ve a correct recreation plan.”

Celtic may even face WSL winners Chelsea and Spanish giants Actual Madrid in Group B’s round-robin matches, whereas Twente are additionally newcomers to this stage of the competitors.

Tuesday may signify one of the best probability for Celtic to choose up factors however, because the lowest-ranked aspect within the competitors, Sadiku believes they will play with out strain.

Celtic Ladies in Champions League: Elena Sadiku intent on sustaining focus amid pleasure of debut in opposition to Twente
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Elena Sadiku took cost at Celtic in January

“This is the first time we experience Champions League in the group stage. There’s no pressure on us. We want to do well; we want to show that we are a great team,” she added.

“This is a different experience for us, and we should be excited. We should be fearless coming into this game as well.”

Kelly Clark is not any stranger to huge video games, having lifted the SWPL title as Celtic skipper on the ultimate day of the season, in addition to representing her nation on 4 events.

She by no means thought she would play at this stage and is relishing the prospect to carry out on the best stage in Europe, though she admitted she is attempting not to consider the sport an excessive amount of.

Celtic's Kelly Clark during a UEFA Women's Champions League Second Qualifying Round Second Leg match between Celtic and Vorskla Poltava
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Celtic skipper Kelly Clark

“Until [Tuesday] afternoon, I’m going to try and not think about it because the more you think about it, the more nervous or the more excited you get,” Clark mentioned. “I’ll try and take my dog a walk and switch off and stuff like that.

“When the time is correct, I will make certain I change on. The very best preparation is to attempt to solely give attention to it as soon as I get right here [to the stadium] as a result of an excessive amount of desirous about it, you begin questioning every thing.”

Clark’s entire family are Celtic fans, and she admitted that makes it even sweeter that she will lead her team out – although her dad is in Lanzarote and will have to make do watching from the pub.

“I think about there can be some tears. A few of my household aren’t within the nation. My dad is in Lanzarote and I am genuinely stunned he is not paid for a flight house but however apparently they will a pub who’s going to indicate it for them,” she added.

“I can’t wait to go back to my phone afterwards and hear that he’s embarrassed himself in front of the entire pub with his tears for 90 minutes.

“My mum and my companion they’re going to be within the crowd and it is an enormous second clearly personally, nevertheless it solely means a lot due to the connection that I’ve with the membership and the historical past that we now have collectively.”

Clark also revealed the squad have received a good luck message from Celtic legend Henrik Larsson, who has been keeping a special eye on his compatriot Sadiku’s success.

“We obtained a congrats from Henrik [when we qualified], that is a extremely essential one, and fairly cool.”

Sadiku ready to make history

Sadiku’s dreams of ever playing in Europe’s elite competition were ended by injury. Her playing career was over by just 23 after 13 surgeries on her knee.

Sadika suffered an ACL injury at 19 and three months after returning she did it again on the same knee. After it happened for a third time she turned to coaching.

Celtic won the SWPL title for the first time last season
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Celtic received the SWPL title for the primary time final season

She had spells as an assistant of sides in China, her native Sweden and Denmark earlier than changing into a head coach in her personal proper.

The Swede stop as Everton U21 boss in January to take cost at Celtic, main them to their first Scottish Ladies’s Premier League title.

She has misplaced simply as soon as within the league since transferring to Glasgow and that was in her opening recreation in opposition to 16-time league winners Glasgow Metropolis.

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