He dreamed of playing in the Palestinian national team and was in the autumn of 2017 called up to the friendlies in India.

” I happened to hurt me, so it was a no. It was very boring, ” says Aiesh, 23 years.

Hosam Aieshs parents fled from the war and living as refugees in Syria before the family came to Gothenburg, where he was born.

” Palestine is my country, but it is Sweden also.

In december, he received notice that the national coach Janne Andersson took him to the national team januariturné in Qatar.

” I sat and cut me and would go to Dubai the day after when I got the sms that congratulated me to the place in the national team. It was, so I had to figure it out. I had heard a little about it before, but then it became clear and clear. It will be great. I didn’t know that I would take a seat but I had it a little on the feel, I will not lie about it.

current for the Palestinian national team, he talked about how right it felt in the heart.

It feels right now also.

– It will be instructive ten days and an honour to get the pull on the blue and yellow shirt. I have received my unused substitute and much else in Sweden. It feels really good to somehow be able to give back.

He now gets the company of, among others, teammate Tesfaldet Tekie, which also makes its debut in the national team, and former teammate Sotirios Papagiannopoulos, now at FC Copenhagen, when the plane takes off on Thursday.

” We are very good friends. I have played against many who are in the squad, it will be as colleagues. There should not be any problems to get to know and play with them, it is a good football player.

Sweden will play against Finland on January 8 and Iceland on 11 January.

“I have not played a match in a very long time so it’ll be fun,” says Hosam Aiesh, which thrive best on mittfältets the right side.

He has two years left on his contract with Ostersunds FK, a club he 2015 was played up in the premiere league.

tribute to he Graham Potter, the coach who came to The CLUB in 2011 and brought the team from division 2 to the top flight and into Europe.

Aiesh asked what he had learned of Potter, which, today, is a trainer in English Swansea.

– It is almost better to ask what I have learned. I’ve got to play very much and Potter is a great football coach.

In a previous interview called Aiesh Grahman Potter a genius.

” He’s really skilled, he has taught me and many others how to be both on and at the side of the plane.

Daniel Kindberg, the club’s former president, who today is accused of a financial crime, is another person whom he pays tribute.

He knew what he wanted to achieve and it was a very good mix with Pots and Kindberg. You should be proud to have worked with such people.

To Kindberg is suspected of aggravated fraud and aiding and abetting to the grossly false accounting changes nothing for Hosam Aiesh.

– I talk with Kindberg every now and then. What should you say? I don’t know what it is about and don’t even want to know what it is about. I love Kindberg, he has meant a lot for me since I signed with Östersunds FK. He will always have me by his side, he knows.

Östersund lost players like Saman Ghoddos, Brwa Nouri, Ken Sema, Sotirios Papagiannopoulos and Dennis Widgren.

– It is often the case when a team comes out in Europe and doing very well. The players who left us have been very involved in our success. I wish them all the luck, they deserve their success.

Aiesh myself have been and trained with German Werder Bremen, Lyon, france, and the Dutch Twente.

” I was around 14-15 years old, it was just a fun thing. It was stopped in Sweden in the winter and then I got the invitation to come and train. It was the best in Twente, I was there two times.