Rosengård's participation in the new tournament, where the winning team plays in equivalent to almost 25 million kronor, was prompted by a criticism storm since the Malmö team wanted to move Saturday's Damallsvenskan home match against Häcken to Sunday, but was denied by the Swedish Football Association.
We think it's directly unprofessional if that type of activity in any way affects the competitions we participate in, especially the match scheduling in these competitions, said Hammarby's technical chief Adrian von Heijne to Aftonbladet a couple of weeks ago.
In Wednesday's loss match, Rosengård had practically the entire squad on site in Portugal. On Thursday, the team faces Bayern München and Ajax.
The World Sevens Football until Friday.
