On Friday, national team star Fanny Rask, 29, announced that she is quitting ice hockey.

In a long message on social media, she says that financial is a strong contributing factor and writes, among other things, that "she does not want to wake up every year in April with an empty account, an anxiety and guilt that throws her into a dark fucking hole. ".

SVT expert Maria Rooth believes that Rask describes the reality for many women's hockey players.

- The women's hockey is so much based on passion and own drive, significantly more than the men's hockey. We are 100 years behind the gentlemen in terms of conditions, Rooth says and continues:

- Women's hockey is very much based on performing first and getting conditions later. It's hard to live with all the time. On the men's side it is the opposite, where it is invested to achieve results.

Rooth believes that women's hockey still has a long way to go, but at the same time thinks that a lot has happened in recent years.

- Fanny has been in this carousel since she was very young and to lead that fight for so long is of course exhausting. She describes an everyday life that I think is difficult to take in if you have not lived it yourself. To invest wholeheartedly for many years, with little money in the account and a dream that is not realized.

- I think it is strong of her to go out with this because she will surely get many negative comments and be called "whimper". Fanny has been around for a long time and has done her thing, now others who have the glow left will continue to carry this torch forward because this is worth fighting for, says Rooth.

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