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After a spring in which everything was canceled due to the pandemic, the national team has met again, for the matches against France and Portugal on Saturday and Tuesday.
On Tuesday, Sampdoria’s Albin Ekdal met with the media and asked him questions about the Summer Program in P1, where he spoke about the time of the national team captain Erik Hamrén in the national team and the dominant role he had Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
95 percent of the reactions to the show were positive, the rest did not understand what he said about Zlatan, says Ekdal.
– They thought that I jumped on him and said that he was directly bad for the team, that was not what I said, but I said that he may be a person that some cannot handle, his temperament, says the 31 year old. .
Neither does Hamrén reason to feel known, says Ekdal.
– If you have such a big star in the team, it is normal that you play a lot around him. It was a criticism both for me and for Hamrén and other players, so there was no one to face.
After spending spring and summer in Italy, for several weeks isolated at home when he had COVID-19, Ekdal has been on vacation in Sweden.
– It’s strange. I think I walked the streets of Stockholm for three weeks without thinking about it. The situation does not look very good in the rest of the world. Relaxing isn’t really the right place to do it, he says of the pandemic.
The national team is completely isolated during harvesting.
– It will be difficult, especially since I have my family a few hundred meters from the hotel. Today I could see them through the glass, my daughter slept fortunately, otherwise it would have been difficult to see her say hello. It feels weird, because it’s completely free to get around Sweden and Italy and most of the countries in Europe, and then you come here and they lock you up again. But Uefa wants to prevent someone from getting infected here, I understand that too, but it’s not much fun.
Ekdal is impressed by how Italy, one of the worst affected countries, got through the crisis.
– I think they have come together in a fantastic way, partly when there was a confinement, what little whining it was. Everyone was determined to do it for the best of Italy. And now what an incredible discipline it is to wear a mask, in stores and pharmacies and restaurants. Surprisingly good at the time, he says.
They also work in the club very serious about the controls, he says. Players are tested every four days. He has antibodies himself, although they are slowly but surely decreasing.
– I think it was surreal. Caught and masked all over the place, 30, 40 surcharges almost in the brain. It’s been weird, but now you’re starting to get used to it. Now just try to find the joy, and it’s incredibly fun to be here and meet everyone and put the shirt back on, that was a while ago.
