Sweden’s captain Caroline Seger faced the press after the team’s practice, which she was unable to attend, and looked mostly sad as she tried to explain what is happening and whether she will be able to play when Sweden meets the USA on Sunday.
She has experienced setback after setback regarding injuries during the year and in the match against Argentina on Wednesday, she regained feeling in her calf after 45 minutes played.
Too much
Afterwards, she could not even enter the so-called mixed zone and answer questions from journalists. According to Sweden’s press officer, she felt “empty of energy” and Caroline Seger describes a situation that simply became too much with emotions of most kinds.
— There is an incredible amount of emotion after everything that has happened. Lots of both happy and sad feelings. When you play 45 minutes and haven’t done it in a long time and are happy about it. But then you feel something (in the calf) then you are affected by it and then physically completely out of your mind after everything with tension and such, she says about why she did not answer questions after the match.
She says the decision not to talk after Wednesday’s game was the best thing for her well-being then and there.
“But I’m here now,” says Caroline Seger to the Swedish journalists who are on site in Melbourne.
Done everything
She says she has no pain in the injured calf, but that it is still not clear if she will be available to play when Sweden meets the USA in the round of 16 on Sunday. But she continues to work to be able to play.
— I have done everything and will continue to do everything I can.
Caroline Seger looks sad as she talks about her own injury problems and the struggle to get back into the game but says she has to be professional with her teammates.
— We have a very important match on Sunday. This is not about me. It’s about the team and we have to perform out there. I’d like us all to focus on Sunday and move on from that game.