Sweden’s Magda Eriksson and Denmark’s Pernille Harder talk about their kiss in Paris that went viral, what it was like coming out and joining Common Goal
It was the most normal thing in the world to Magda Eriksson when, after helping Sweden defeat Canada in the last 16 of the Women’s World Cup, she located her partner in the stands and wandered over towards Parc des Princes crowd. They shared a kiss and thought nothing of it until later on, when the amount of activity on their phones suggested something was blowing up.
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Written by Nick Ames in Wolfsburg
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/aug/07/magda-eriksson-pernille-harder-kiss-womens-world-cup-common-goal under the title “Harder and Eriksson: ‘After the photo people wrote and said how much we’d helped’”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
