head Coach Peter Gerhardsson nominated squad back in november. It was done in such good time is because 16 of the 24 selected players belong in the damallsvenskan, which has winter break.

the Goalkeeper Hedvig Lindahl and innerbacken Nilla Fischer, the supposed starter at the world CUP, do not travel to Cape town.

Fischer has simply given time off. She is inside of a tough season in the Bundesliga with Wolfsburg, but will be available in the remaining matches before the world CUP.

parts of the season in Chelsea. But it has its basis in that she is competing with both English landslagsmålvakterna Carly Telford and Lizzie Durack.

Lindahl and Telford rotates in the league, Lindahl used in the Champions League, and Durack gets the chance in the domestic cupspelet.

When the squad for south Africa was presented was Gerhardsson clear that the best thing for the Firm was to remain in London and train with the Chelsea, while he had the opportunity to look at the three other goalies down in south Africa.

Of these three appears to be the rose farm Zecira Musovic which it is currently a natural choice which also in the world CUP playoffs.

missing in the squad is högerbacken Jessica Samuelsson. After a foot injury, which took almost a year to heal, she was back in the landslagstruppen in november, and started träningslandskampen against England.

She stepped off after 60 minutes in a tactical change. But when she one day later returned to training with Arsenal, it turned out that she associated with international suffered a fracture in the same foot. Samuelsson is therefore gone from the game for an indefinite period of time, and a question mark before the world CUP.

in France, played 7 June–7 July, began as soon as the referee blown the taillight in the Danish Viborg 4 september.

Sweden had defeated Denmark 1-0 in the last world CUP promotion. A result which meant that Sweden won the group, took direktplatsen, and avoided an uncertain playoff on the last Europaplatsen in the world CUP.

at the same time as grupptvåan Denmark was forced to qualify on, and failed in the playoff, could Gerhardsson, therefore, in the peace and quiet to plan towards the world CUP and the implementation of three träningslandskamper against qualified resistance – Norway, Italy and England.

After the 2-1 at home against Norway and inglorious 0-1 away against Italy, Sweden took a heavy scalp when they beat reigning world CUP third-place England at home 2-0.

the world CUP playoffs in 2015, it is a largely new team that will participate in this summer’s world CUP. Left is a frame consisting of Hedvig Lindahl, Linda Sembrant, Nilla Fischer, Kosovare Asllani, Sofia Jakobsson, Caroline Seger, Olivia Schough and Elin Rubensson.

Jonna Andersson, Magdalena Eriksson, Stina Blackstenius, Fridolina Rolfö and Emma Berglund extended the frame at the OLYMPIC games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. Hanna Glass was added at the european CHAMPIONSHIPS in the Netherlands in 2017.

Amanda Ilestedt was the world CUP player in 2015, missed the OLYMPICS in Rio and the european CHAMPIONSHIPS in 2017, but is now back in this summer’s world CUP-bet.

Emma Berglund, a central defender of French PSG, can be a joker in the Gerhardssons the world CUP squad. Berglund suffered a cruciate ligament injury a year ago and has been matched carefully in their club during the autumn (4 matches).

the 30-year-old Berglund has the necessary routine. She did her first championship at the OLYMPIC games in London 2012, when she formed mittlås together with Linda Sembrant.