‘Good energy’: Eveliina Summanen backs Spurs surge after manager change

‘Good energy’: Eveliina Summanen backs Spurs surge after manager change | Moving the Goalposts

Midfielder on Martin Ho, taking steps forward with the London club and playing for Finland at Euro 2025When Eveliina Summanen joined Tottenham from the Swedish side Kristianstad in January 2022, everything changed for her. The 27-year-old knew she was coming to a league with ambition, a league incre

Midfielder on Martin Ho, taking steps forward with the London club and playing for Finland at Euro 2025

When Eveliina Summanen joined Tottenham from the Swedish side Kristianstad in January 2022, everything changed for her. The 27-year-old knew she was coming to a league with ambition, a league increasingly catching the attention of the best European talent, and a league that stood to benefit from a home European Championship that would catapult interest and growth further.

“At Spurs I got enough support and time to kind of grow into things,” Summanen says. “I wasn’t just thrown into the deep end right away. I got the right support, right help on and off the pitch to get to where I am now. It didn’t just happen overnight, I just slowly, slowly kept building and that’s still what I want to do, keep taking steps forward.”

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