In TV4’s documentary film about Caroline Seger’s career, “Captain Seger”, which will be released on December 25, Seger and partner Olivia Schough open up about their love for each other for the first time.
The couple have been together for over seven years and on the football field they share many memories together. Not particularly strange because they have long played together in both the national team and club team.
Today, they are engaged to each other and the decision to keep the relationship out of the public eye has been deliberate.
– It’s quite nice that people have had that respect considering that we have not been interested in that whole piece and the uproar about if it had come out, Caroline Seger begins in the documentary.
Schough takes on:
– Most people know. The media knows but they have been very respectful when it comes to that part. We have felt that we have wanted to have our private life private simply, so that football can be his, she says.
“Didn’t want to front the whole community”
But there also seem to have been other reasons why the relationship has not taken place in the public eye. Above all for Victory.
– I didn’t want to become the icon that fronts the whole “community”, she says.
Why?
– I know that as a person I want to please all people and I would like everyone to like me. It sounds so strange but if I’m not a certain way, people lose respect, or I won’t be the role model that everyone expects me to be.
– I don’t know if it’s because I’ve suppressed a lot about living openly. Because in the beginning when I came out and told you that I liked girls, it was still the lid on in many contexts. To this day you (Olivia) are more open than I am. I would never introduce Olivia as my partner, but I can be uncomfortable in certain situations, even today, says Seger.
Perhaps it is therefore not so strange that the couple now chooses to take the step to tell the general public about the relationship.
– I think I have to cross that threshold to live fully, otherwise I will always adapt a little so that others will be comfortable. If I want to kiss her openly or hold her hand, it’s sometimes because I don’t want to make someone else uncomfortable. Because I have some sick idea that it is still like that, says Seger.
“Olivia in a shared place with football”
During Seger’s long and successful career, she has repeatedly given space to, and shown her position on, important issues. Schough therefore ponders why exactly this is difficult for Seger. Not even Seger himself can put his finger on what it is due to.
– I have never found an answer to that. But I have to force myself to jump over that wall because otherwise I feel like I’m stuck in conforming to be something I’m not fully.
The documentary Kapten Seger premieres on Christmas Day, December 25, at TV4 Play and TV12. The documentary will also be broadcast on TV4 on December 30.
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