The World Cup soccer debut debuts - in long jump

At 14 years old Tilde Johansson scored an incredible 49 goals for Skrea IF. That was more than half of the Division 4 team's 75 goals that season.

The following year, 2016, Johansson became a re-shooting queen. That time in Division 3, when she accounted for 25 goals in the series game.

In the summer she was called to the annual elite girl camp in Halmstad, where Sweden's most talented football players gather, but she refused.

The camp collided with the World Youth Games in Gothenburg - and Johansson chose athletics instead. It was a smart choice.

In 2018 she took gold in the long jump in the U18 European Championships and in the summer there was silver in the length and gold in the 100 meters hurdles in the U20 European Championships in Borås.

- It was awesome. I bet on the medal and it became two. But it was a bit of a shame in the long jump, I wanted to take a double but didn't really have the strength in the last jumps, she says.

Tilde Johansson has not only managed to take championship medals this summer. She has also set a personal record in length, 6.73, and is thus fifth in Sweden through the ages.

The result also meant that she is ready for the World Cup in Doha, which starts on September 27. And that is broadcast in SVT - here are all broadcast times.

However, she goes there with some uncertainty. She was forced to break Finnkampen in mid-August with a thigh injury, and then chose to withdraw from the Swedish Championships. However, the World Cup start is not in danger.

"I talked to her the other day and she felt very satisfied with the training and felt that she will be in good shape for the World Cup," the league captain Karin Torneklint told TT last week.

Johansson's goal in the World Cup is anything but modest.

- The goal in the World Cup is to get to the final and if you are well in the final, anything can happen, she says.

- I've always had long-term goals, like coming to the Olympics and jumping seven meters.

Erica Johansson holds the Swedish record with 6.99.

- Maybe not this year, but in a few years I hope at least that it will go. After all, no one in Sweden has jumped seven meters in approved winds, but there are all possibilities if I can keep myself injury-free and continue to exercise.

With the medals, the breakthrough and the World Cup ticket comes a completely different press than Johansson previously experienced. She is painted as one of Swedish athletics' big names for the future and has been compared to none other than Carolina Klüft.

If it interferes? Not at all.

- It still feels fun. Obviously you feel some pressure, now you have to live up to it. But it's not that dangerous, I think, she says and continues:

- It's a lot more media and so now. But I'm still used to it. I come from Falkenberg, which is a fairly small town, and I have nevertheless performed well in terms of my age class. So I have nevertheless been interviewed and so before.