On Saturday meets Russia Sweden in Jönköping in the first of two friendlies before the world CUP for Sweden, starting with the match against Egypt, the eleventh day of January in Copenhagen.
With the short time the team has together is every practice and every match important for to play the team together. Now you are forced to spare mittsexan Andreas Nilsson, in both the matches against Russia.
” He has had a virus in the body, so we risk nothing. We keep him away from the players as much as possible. Not optimal of course, but this belongs to, ” says head coach Kristján Andrésson who collected the world CUP team in Halmstad, sweden.
the reinvention of the players, the 36-year-old Kim Andersson and 29-year-old Kim Ekdahl du Rietz is playing against Russia. Both had put down the national team, but said yes when Kristján Andrésson heard of.
“When he signed a two year contract with Paris so I thought that I would check out the situation,” says Kristján Andrésson on the contact with Kim Ekdahl du Rietz. He sees opportunities and it is fun.
Kim Andersson decided to quit the national team after the OLYMPICS in Rio de Janeiro in which Sweden was second-to-last. But he has continued in Ystad.
” I think that during these years in handbollsligan become better and better. He thinks it is fun to play and spread the energy and make amazing things handbollsmässigt, ” says coach Kim Andersson and adds:
– There are not many högernior in the world that had been better. He is long, he is left-handed, he can shoot, he can go on the break, he can play inside, he stands well back so it is a complete handbollsspelare.
” We have had two and a half days together, we have had four handbollspass, so it’s not that I expect everything to sit.
” But we are trying to put some frames and then we have a pretty free game, where we rely on the individuals. We have some clear things we want to do, then detaljstyr we are not the players. It is not necessary for they are so talented, ” says Kristján Andrésson.
” We have to play so good that we win each match. It is what we must do.
” We won five matches and lost two in 2017, and became the sixth and so we won four and lost four in 2018 and was runner-up, it is crazy strange.
” But we have shown, both in France (the world CHAMPIONSHIPS in 2017) and Croatia (european CHAMPIONSHIPS in 2018) that we have really high peaks. A semi-final is the objective and where anything can happen, ” says Kristján Andrésson.
