It has hailed with injuries to Swedish national team players.
Mikaela Mässing, Clara Lerby and Olivia Mellegård have all pulled the cruciate ligament during the summer.
Add to that the fact that Jamina Roberts and Marie Wall have just become mothers.
But when the new national team captain Tomas Axnér took out his first national team squad for the training matches against Poland on October 1 (Lund) and October 3 (Ystad), the joy was that Isabelle Gulldén is back.
She nobbed the last collections before the corona pandemic and was also missing at the Bosön camp this summer, Axnér's first collection.
Then Brestproffset could not travel from France due to the pandemic.
- I've had many conversations with Bella.
She feels motivated and hungry for handball again.
It may be good for some players to have received this corona break and to have had to think, says Axnér in a live broadcast.
Back from maternity leave is also goalkeeper star Johanna Bundsen.
Important defender Sabina Jacobsen is missing, however.
- She has had problems with an injury and has not been able to train handball.
But she is not written off.
She is included in the calculations.
Just hope she gets well again.
In total, the national team captain took out a 16-man squad, where the Sävehof player and also the debutant Nina Dano stood out.
In December, the European Championships await, which will be held from 3 to 20 December in Norway and Denmark.
Sweden is supposed to play its group matches in Denmark, in Fredrikshamn.