As recently as Monday, Ivan Juric was told that he was no longer wanted at Atalanta. A 0-3 home defeat against Sassuolo in Serie A was the final straw.
For Hien, the future is about learning new things on two fronts.
It's a bit special of course. You've worked in a certain way with a certain coach and overnight everything changes quite quickly and quite a lot in a short time. As a footballer, however, you are exposed to situations like this and you become more and more experienced, but it's always a sad situation when someone gets fired because they haven't done well enough. No one is happy in such a situation, he says.
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For Svanberg, the situation is similar. In Wolfsburg, Paul Simonis was fired at about the same time as Juric. But the difference is that Svanberg was mostly rejected by Jon Dahl Tomasson. The last time he was selected for the national team was in September last year. Hien has been a given in the starting eleven.
New national team captain Graham Potter, however, was immediately drawn to the Bundesliga midfielder.
"Since I haven't been there in a while, it wasn't something I expected, but it was fun. I'm happy to have the chance again," says Svanberg.
There are no "hard feelings" between him and Dahl Tomasson.
There was a dialogue. The first few times I was away it was more because I was injured and the other times I hadn't played or performed well enough in my club team. There's no bad relationship between us. It was his decision and I have to accept that.
“It’s been hard”
Instead of trying to contribute, he has sat at home and watched the national team get lost in the World Cup qualifiers.
It's been tough. Like all Swedish fans, you want the team to win and we want to get to the World Cup. The players, the managers and above all the Swedish people want that. I really hoped that it would be a different situation right now and that we had won more matches, says Svanberg.
From the TV armchair, he has noted the shortcomings that Graham Potter needs to fix.
"We have conceded too many big chances, too many conversions, where the other team has scored. We have not been able to attack the way we want to," he says.
