{"id":19993,"date":"2015-07-18T06:23:36","date_gmt":"2015-07-18T06:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=19993"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"nordfeldt-on-his-busy-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2015\/07\/18\/nordfeldt-on-his-busy-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Nordfeldt On His Busy Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nordfeldt celebrated his birthday by signing for the club and then got married and was told he was going to be a father all within days of each other which isn&#8217;t the normal quiet close season that maybe some players can expect.<\/p>\n<p>But having made his Swans bow in the midweek 1-1 draw in Germany, he couldn&#8217;t be a happier man as he looks forward to trying to dislodge the excellent Lukasz Fabianski from the Number 1 spot at Swansea and help the club build on last season&#8217;s record breaking performances.<\/p>\n<p>The Swedish international will not have been signed purely to be a complete back up to Fab, this is a serious signing of someone that we know can compete for the first team spot and whilst he will start as a number 2 having a serious competitor in the background for the jersey should bring the best out of both goalkeepers.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the club&#8217;s official website whilst on tour, Nordfeldt said \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been quite a busy start to life at Swansea<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I came to Swansea to meet the gaffer and do the medical, and a day later I signed for the club on my birthday. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153A couple of days later I got married to my wife, and then we had the great news that we are expecting our first child in November. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve also had to adapt to my new club and get used to everything, and now we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re here in Grassau preparing for the new season. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We have more time with the boys out here and it strengthens the bond within the team. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Everyone has been very caring and welcoming to me and the fellow new players. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an easy group to fit into. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been a smooth transition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nordfeldt is expected to make his first start for the Swans today in the final game in Germany against 1860 Munich.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Swans TV - Pre-season: Kristoffer Nordfeldt interview\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/isaZj2-oLLM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nordfeldt celebrated his birthday by signing for the club and then got married and was told he was going to be a father all within days of each other which isn&#8217;t the normal quiet close season that maybe some players can expect. But having made his Swans bow in the midweek 1-1 draw in Germany, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}