Midfielder Pontus Jansson chose after the summer of 2021, somewhat surprisingly, to leave the national team at the age of 30.

After that, he has impressed in the midfield for Premier League club Brentford.

Now Jansson says that after the Nations League gathering in the autumn of 2020, he was dissatisfied with how he was treated by the Swedish charging team.

- I had to take almost all the shit for two bad internationals.

I made a big mistake against Croatia which led to loss.

Against Portugal then, everyone was clapping.

But I was the one who got to be the face outwards for that too, Jansson says to Sydsvenskan.

"There is a limit"

The 31-year-old believes that he had to take the whole "blow" himself, when the national team was to face the media after the losses.

- I have no problem taking criticism.

But sometimes there may be a limit.

To go out and meet the media five minutes after making two worse internationals and stand there all by yourself and get question after question and then do a press conference and then TV and repeat the same things over and over again.

They could have done better for the national team.

They probably had not done so against all players, he says.

Janne Andersson is facing a midfield crisis in the ongoing Nations League collection.

At Saturday's press conference, the national team captain said that he had called Pontus Jansson, who left the national team just over a year ago, but received a no.

- He thought for a few days, but did not really feel one hundred percent for it.

He enjoys the life he has, with the club team and family.

Based on that, I took my call and then I thanked him for thinking about it anyway, Andersson said.

SVT Sport has sought contact persons for the national team.

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