Pia Sundhage was left emotional after guiding Sweden to the final of the Rio 2016 women s football tournament on Tuesday.
Sweden provided the shock of the competition when they knocked out two-time defending champions United States who were coached by Sundhage in 2008 and 2012 in the quarter-finals on penalties last week.
They were the underdogs once again when they tackled hosts Brazil in the semi-finals, but held their nerve to seal a second shoot-out win.
Now Sundhage is on the verge of winning a third straight Olympic gold medal as a coach, and she could not be prouder of her players.
It is very emotional. I have been to the Olympic finals in Beijing [2008] and London [2012] but then I had a team everybody expected to do well, she said.
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