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The day before the World Cup quarter-finals, great concern is raised.
As Kosovare Asllani was completely absent from the press conference.
While confederation captain Peter Gerhardsson comes up with a cryptic answer.
The World Cup quarter-finals await on Friday morning for the Swedish national team. Japan is the opposition and it is expected to be the toughest match yet for our blue and yellow representatives in Australia.
Sweden’s concerns
But just the day before the World Cup clash, there is now an unexpected concern that is spreading among the Swedish people. So far Kosovar Asllani wore the captain’s armband in every match except the final group stage match against Argentina when several starting players were rested.
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Because “Kosse” was completely missing at the press conference before the World Cup quarter-finals. Instead of the team captain Asllani it was Magdalena Eriksson and Amanda Ilestedt who took care of the press conference together with the national team captain Peter Gerhardsson.
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Asllani gone
The mystery surrounding Asllani then grew even more when Gerhardsson gave an unexpectedly cryptic answer to the question of whether the Swede will captain the team again against Japan. In the past he has been very open about announcing it, but now he gave a sneaky announcement instead.
– We shall see. As always, we have three captains, Seger (Caroline), Magdalena (Eriksson), and Asllani (Kosovare). It will be one of them, he says at the press conference.
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But Caroline Victory it probably won’t happen as the veteran still has injury concerns and has been training individually recently.
– The status is good in that everyone except Seger drove full. Then, as always, we will have a reconciliation when I get home based on the fact that we have to evaluate who can play 120, or 90 minutes. It affects how we will start, admits the Swedish national team captain at the press conference.
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