When national team coach Peter Gerhardsson leaves after the European Championship, it also means that Magnus Wikman's time in the women's national team is over.
I haven't landed on this as well as Peter (Gerhardsson). He had made up his mind and felt ready. I'm not like that, says Magnus Wikman.
He wants to continue as a football coach, but hasn't clarified any new job:
I'm a control freak and can be worried in certain situations without a job, livelihood, and future. That's a big and important thing for me and something I prioritize highly, says Wikman.
He can think of moving abroad or taking a coaching job in Sweden. Now it bothers him that nothing is clear before the European Championship.
I would have wished to know what I'm going to do in the future before the European Championship starts, but that's not going to happen.
“Worse sleep”
Magnus Wikman tells that the worry, with rumination, comes at night when he's supposed to sleep:
It can be when you lie in bed and are supposed to sleep that it becomes an hour of worse sleep because you lie there thinking. “Jeez, what am I going to do?”
TT: Would you have done a better job at the European Championship without this uncertainty?
From that perspective. Yes, maybe it would have been. But I don't doubt that I'll be good and do my best on the job, says Wikman and continues:
I've told this to Peter (Gerhardsson). He knows that I'm in a different situation than him in my feelings. That I don't have a job after the European Championship and that it worries me. But I'm also very driven in my job. When I get into something, I forget about the other things.
Gerhardsson's future
Peter Gerhardsson doesn't know what he's going to do after the European Championship. Not even if he's going to continue as a coach or retire. He enjoys the feeling:
I think it's nice to have the feeling when you don't know what you're going to do. It's almost as if I don't want to close that feeling. I like the unpredictable and now it's unpredictable what I'm going to do.
New national team coach after the European Championship will be Tony Gustavsson and new assistant coach will be Johanna Almgren.
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Facts: European Championship 2025
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Date: 2–27 July. Host nation: Switzerland (first time). Number of teams: 16. Format: Four groups with four teams – the top two in each group advance to the quarterfinals. Groups: Group A: Finland, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland. Group B: Belgium, Italy, Portugal, Spain. Group C: Denmark, Poland, Sweden, Germany. Group D: England, France, Netherlands, Wales. Stadiums: 8 stadiums in 8 cities – Basel, Bern, Zurich, Geneva, St Gallen, Lucerne, Sion, and Thun. Sweden's matches: 4 July 18:00 Denmark-Sweden, Stade de Genève, Geneva. 8 July 21:00 Poland-Sweden, Swissporarena, Lucerne. 12 July 21:00 Sweden-Germany, Letzigrundstadion, Zurich. Sweden's preparation for the European Championship: 23-25 June: EM camp in Åhus. 26 June: Warm-up match against Norway in Oslo.
