The season in the Turkish league came to a somewhat fuzzy end for Sweden's highest paid female sports star.

Isabelle Haak, who plays for Vakifbank Istanbul, was unsure for a long time whether she would go home or stay and wait for a restart of the league. But after going home, she received a lot of pepper and good advice from family, friends and teammates.

- They said now you have a lot of time to improve your weaknesses or just recover if you have any small injuries or so, she says.

Although it has not been easy to motivate and train yourself, something that all the participants in Bollstjärnorna recognize themselves in. But now she is looking forward to the autumn and any national team gatherings, even if they may be a little special:

- Now everyone has had an equally long break, normally everyone in the national team has different programs so then everyone gets there in different form but most have at least been up and running. Now everyone gets there after a very long break and has to start from scratch, so it will be quite a long way back, states Isabelle Haak.

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