Hugo Larsson called the plans at Bosön on Lidingö "shit". Alexander Isak also thinks that the training conditions during the week have been substandard.
Not so good. The conditions are not good. There is not much to choose from. I can understand that there are no other alternatives. It's not our plan either and I do not know how much can be done about it, he says.
"Have to adapt"
National team players are used to good training conditions in their clubs around Europe.
It will be a big change for many, I think, but it's something we have to adapt to.
The grass pitch at the national arena in Solna has over the years received criticism for being uneven and loose.
Here it's not always much better, says Isak.
National team manager Stefan Pettersson is aware of the players' complaints, but points out that they are doing everything they can to get good training conditions.
Bosön is absolutely not perfect, but as good as it can be at this time of year. It's better than a year ago and they have really put in work on it, but you can't magic with your knees, he says.
Marbella in November
We live where we do. It's like "Alex" says, what alternatives do we have?
Yes, which ones are there?
That's exactly it. We look over all the plans, early. But this is the reality we live in.
Training the whole week indoors at Strawberry is not an option. It would wear too hard on the match pitch.
A solution for the national team is to train in Marbella at the gatherings in March and November. The preparations for the World Championship qualifiers' final matches against Switzerland and Slovenia will take place there next month.
March and November, where should we be? We have been to Marbella a few times and it has worked great. There we have other conditions at that time of year.
What do you think about the situation that the national team has to travel to Spain to train?
If you want to have good conditions in March and November, you have to go abroad. The best would be if we owned a training facility with several pitches. The association has wished for that for many years. It's not an easy thing to fix. Now we are where we are and we have to make the best of it, says Stefan Pettersson.
