After this summer's European Championship finals, Andreas Granqvist, Sebastian Larsson, Mikael Lustig, Pontus Jansson, Marcus Berg and Gustav Svensson thanked everyone and announced that their national team career was over.
It leaves a lot of question marks around which players will shoulder their roles.
In connection with all these offers, Janne chose to appoint three new team captains, Victor Nilsson Lindelöf becomes team captain and Alblin Ekdal second captain and Emil Forsberg third.
- Now it will be a new group dynamic. That is why I have also chosen to appoint three team captains. To state how important their roles will be, both internally and externally. These are guys with great values, have experience, good football players and who have already contributed, Janne said before the World Cup qualifiers.