On Monday, the international basketball association Fiba announced that the men's qualifiers in November and February will be played in isolated bubbles in one and the same place.
It is now clear that this will also be the case for the women's European Championship qualifiers during the same months.
Sweden, which leads its qualifying group, will thus miss a sportingly very important home match against Israel in November.
- Since we would only have played that match in November, it is clear that, based on the fact that we had large events with a lot of people in the stands, it will have negative financial consequences for us.
The big losses are lost audience and advertising revenue, says national team manager Fredrik Joulamo to SVT Sport.
"It will be a buyout for us"
- We have had a lot of support from our home crowd and by European standards, Sweden is away in a match that the opponents find difficult.
So in this way we lose the home ground advantage.
It must be stated that exchanging a match at home for a match at a neutral level, it will be a buyout for us.
Fredrik Joulamo believes, however, that it will be purely logistically easier for the players, who then do not have to travel
- As this will most likely be decided in Central Europe, it will be more comfortable for them because it will be a shorter connecting trip.
We will probably not have to take the players to Sweden first and they are almost exclusively in Central Europe.