It’s become the general tradition that when a footballer joins a new club, is promoted to the first team, or makes their first squad appearance for the national side, that they’re often expected to put on a show.
Now just on the pitch, but off it too. Singing initiations have increasingly become the norm, and the poor player involved has to stand on a table and belt out a song whilst all his new teammates usually laugh at him.
It was no different for Tottenham Hotspur’s Lucas Bergvall. Having agreed a deal to join Spurs earlier, the Sweden international arrived this summer and was presented his turn with the stage.
Unfortunately for the Tottenham youngster, it didn’t go well at all.
Speaking to Aftonbladet, the 18-year-old said: “I sang Abbas’s “Dancing Queen”. It was really, really bad. I was booed afterwards.”
Now he knows it’s going to have to happen with Sweden as well, being a new boy for the national team. He’s plainly not looking forward to it, but at least he’ll have Dejan Kulusevski there to look after him.