National team veteran Elin Rubensson, 29, missed the damallsvenska season 2020, when she was pregnant.
Determined to get back to the top and the national team, she has worked really hard.
When the European Championship squad was released a month ago, she was so nervous that she could not follow the squad selection.
That she is in place in England now is not something she took for granted.
Not least because feelings of injury hampered her during the season in Häcken.
- I have really said that I will enjoy more than ever.
I feel very proud that I have managed this journey.
Or managed, I'm still fighting very hard.
I went through the whole pregnancy and got back to the physical shape I am in now.
It's proud of.
As for the pregnancy, it has only made her better.
Rubensson says that she has broken records in all fitness tests.
- Physically, I feel stronger and faster than before.
Tests have also shown.
It's very cool how the body can go through such a big thing as a pregnancy and a birth and then come back even better.