When Sävehof practices passes and movements in training, ahead of the upcoming Swedish Championship finals against Skuru, you do not notice that there is anything special about Nina Koppang.
She takes in with full focus like everyone else.
But when it comes to game exercises with body contact, she has to sit next to her and watch.
After the blood clots in the lungs, which were discovered in January, Koppang is taking blood-thinning medicine.
It prevents new clots, but also makes her bleed very easily.
- So I can not do contact sports, states Nina Koppang.
Ten quiet weeks
After a few days in hospital in January, ten weeks of silence followed, while, among other things, the heart was examined.
- It was hard.
You are above not allowed to move, go to the gym and so on.
The heart recovered, as it were, and the blood clots disappeared.
In March, Nina Koppang had to start training again, but without direct physical contact.
- There will be a lot of individual technology, running and gym.
A little pre-season training, you could almost call it.
The question is what the future holds.
- If it is easy to get blood clots, lifelong treatment is needed, says Hampus Lüning, who is a doctor in both Sävehof and the women's national team.
- It's tough for Nina.
Like a long-term injury with an uncertain end, which she can do nothing to affect.
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Koppang suffered from blood clots in the lungs - gone indefinitely
Looking for cause
After six months of blood-thinning medicine, Nina Koppang will be examined again.
Not least, they try to investigate why the blood clots occurred.
If there are genetic causes, or if no cause is found at all, the medication must be continued.
Last winter, Koppang had a minor elbow injury, and used a protection.
It may have affected.
- It is very unusual for such young people, or elite athletes, to get blood clots in the lungs, says Hampus Lüning.
Right now, Nina Koppang is keeping her spirits up.
- I am with the team as much as I can.
It feels good to be involved and train.
It is important to me, she says.
Famous sister supports
The 19-year-old also receives support from his more famous, a few years older, half-sister - the football star Stina Blackstenius.
- We talk a lot on the phone, and I watch every match she plays with Arsenal.
About a week ago I was in London and watched a match live.
It was very fun, says Nina Koppang.
The 19-year-old made his debut in the A national team last spring, in a World Cup qualifier against Ukraine where the entire regular Swedish team was stopped by corona infection.
Nina Koppang, then only 18 years old, impressed with five goals and Sweden went to the World Cup.
Koppang is a left-handed shooter - a type of player that many handball teams shout for.
She was selected as a reserve at home for the World Cup in Spain last winter, but was forced to say no due to the elbow injury.
Now thumbs are kept for her to get the go-ahead to play handball again.