the Squad for Sweden’s european CHAMPIONSHIP qualifiers against Romania and Norway were presented on Wednesday. Where the confirmed national coach Janne Andersson, the former AIK-talent Alexander Isaac is selected. He has had a tough time in Dortmund, but has during the winter been a resurgence in Dutch Willem II where he is on loan and has been responsible for five goals in the last five matches.
– It is a very smart, målfarlig footballer. He is quite large and exciting true team player. He has had two years where he played reservfotboll and trained a lot in a very good environment, and now been on loan and done very well. We want to channel new players by the hand, and now I think it was a great opportunity this time, ” says Janne Andersson, when the troupe presented at the press conference.
that they are to prepare trainings and briefings with the players, now it’s about to look more precisely at how the national team should play.
” the most Important thing is the match against Romania, this is the one we focus on fully. It will be important that we can package it together here because the players have been out for four months in their own environments. Now in a few days we shall get all to sync with each other, it is the big challenge so we will start working with now then the players will come in.
In Norway’s squad are the two top players selected, AIK:s Tarik Elyounoussi and Djurgårdens goalkeeper Per Kristian Bråtveit. Norway’s national team coach is also a very familiar face, namely Lars Lagerback.
” a Great deal of respect for the job he’s done. He has a wealth of experience as a head coach and done very well with the national teams he has coached, ” says Janne Andersson.
meet Sweden, Spain, Malta and the Faroe islands in the group.
– You get the lot you get, you can then evaluate if it is better or worse but there is nothing you can influence. It is a pretty tough group, I think, but we want to EM. It means we’ll be among the first two. We take match after match, day after day as it comes. First Romania, then Norway, and then Malta. Somewhere there is an end but it’s important not to jump the gun, ” says Janne Andersson.
Andreas Granqvist was one of the key people behind Sweden’s success in the world CUP, including two goals and was solid defensively. He announced a few weeks ago to the qualifier and, possibly, the championship will be the last thing he does on the landslagsscenen.
” We did an evaluation after the world CUP with the older players, and that Granqvist will continue came as no big surprise. He means very much in the role of the captain of the team and is good at making player in their surroundings better, as so many others in the team, ” says Janne Andersson.
John Guidetti and Isaac Kiese Thelin has been economical with playing time in their club teams, and is not withdrawn. The match against Romania played at home 23 march, followed by an away match at Ullevål Norway, march 26.
