The men’s national team has had a bad and difficult sporting year. It goes on.
The Swedish stars can be suspended by their clubs for the next two international matches.
– It is nonsense and very strange to FIFA, says national team manager Stefan Peterson.
The Swedish national football team will soon have two international training matches, against World Cup-preparing Mexico in Spain on November 16, and against Algeria in Malmö on November 19.
But matches are not played on the so-called FIFA dates for national teams that, like Sweden, have not qualified for the World Cup.
This means that the Swedish national team and the Swedish Football Association cannot force club teams to release players for international trained players.
Forced to play – but without the best?
– We hope to have a good relationship so that clubs can still allow players to come to the national team, says Stefan Petersson, head of operations for the men’s national team at the Swedish Football Association when Sportbladet spoke to him two days before the selection. .
Can you get rid of all the players you want?
– It remains to be seen. Most of the clubs are positive and think it’s fun to have their players selected for the national team and the players want to be a part of it. We are concerned that all minor damages and imperfections can be caused by it as well.
In the agreements concluded by the SvFF and other continental confederations with the football organizations Uefa and Fifa, which contribute large sums to the national confederations, there is a requirement that the national teams play a certain number of international matches per year in order for the television companies to have matches to broadcast.
– Yes, it is, says Stefan Peterson.
So why didn’t FIFA arrive so that all national teams could access the players during this previous period VM?
You are welcome to contact FIFA and ask.
All the national confederations have confronted FIFA about this and wondered why there are no international match dates for everyone, says Stefan Peterson. I think it is nonsense. We find it very strange.
Genrep before the European Championship qualifiers
The bottom line is that World Cup qualifiers are decided at an odd time during the winter season, which makes it difficult and season stressful for national and international league and cup matches.
Now clubs can at least prevent some players from more wear and tear.
The current national team players who Victor Nelson Lindelof And the Anthony ElangaAnd Manchester United and Diane KulusevskyTottenham, represents clubs with intense match schedules, which have many players in World Cup qualifiers and where the club’s intensive program resumes in England on Boxing Day.
The two international matches in November are very important to us. Next time we meet, in March next year, it will be difficult with the European Championship qualifiers against Belgium in the first match. “We would very much like to have our best players available now,” says Stefan Peterson.
