When Sweden met Romania in the European Championship qualifiers last week, 24-year-old Jonathan Carlsbogård made his national team debut.
However, it ended with a broken leg in one hand in connection with him blocking a Romanian, and now it is clear that he will have surgery tomorrow and will be gone for about six weeks.
- It is clear that it is sad, when you got the chance to play.
That it happens then ... It's damn typical.
That they then missed the second match (against Kosovo), it was also a sad penalty and now I miss matches with the club team and will be gone for at least six weeks, I think, he says to SVT Sport, and tells that he had counted on from the beginning a shorter period of absence:
- I actually thought myself that it would go faster.
But it is a bone in the hand and not the finger itself, and that makes it take a little longer.
But I thought it would be worse.
Fight against the clock awaits
The World Cup in Egypt starts in Egypt on January 14, which is nine weeks away.
In other words, it will be a battle against the clock for the former Redbergslid player, who now belongs to the German Leppen.
- It will be a bit tight, unfortunately ... That is what you have been looking forward to.
Now that you have started to play a little with the national team, you have had that in mind, but we will see how everything goes with the operation and how fast the rehab goes, he says.
It was not this national team debut you saw in front of you, I guess ...
- Haha, no ... Damn ... It was damn sad.