Stefan Pettersson on Max Svensson: “We all know he is there”
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MALMÖ. Max Svensson debuted in La Liga the opposite week.
The 22-year-old is the son of handball legend Tomas Svensson.
– We all know he’s there, says nationwide staff supervisor Stefan Pettersson.
- Max Svensson, son of the handball legend Tomas Svensson, has just lately made his debut within the Spanish soccer league La Liga for Osasuna. Svensson grew up in Spain however has Swedish roots, which opens the door for a attainable future place within the Swedish nationwide soccer staff.
- Nationwide staff supervisor Stefan Pettersson confirms that they’re following the 22-year-old’s progress.
- Whether or not Svensson would select to play for Sweden, if he’s known as up, is unknown. Nevertheless, he has beforehand acknowledged that he hopes for a place in a nationwide staff, no matter whether or not it’s for Sweden or Spain.
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In latest occasions, the Swedish Soccer Affiliation and particularly the administration of the boys’s nationwide staff have change into extra aggressive in relation to gamers with international roots who can select nationwide groups apart from the Swedish one.
In mid-Could, striker Max Svensson made his debut within the Spanish La Liga for Osasuna.
He’s the son of handball legend Tomas Svensson.
Now the nationwide staff doesn’t instantly lack offensive high quality and the 22-year-old has solely made one look in La Liga. However Sportbladet took the chance throughout the previous nationwide staff assembly to ask the nationwide staff supervisor Stefan Pettersson if they’ve a watch on Svensson.
– We all know that he’s there. However I am not the one who retains monitor of all of the gamers. They’re most likely conscious, however we all know he is there, says Pettersson.
Who is aware of, you imply?
– “The game”, i.e. we…the affiliation. He figured some time in the past too.
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Max Svensson was born and raised in Spain, the place father Tomas first moved in 1990, as a 22-year-old to change into a handball skilled. Tomas, at this time a goalkeeper coach in Barcelona and the Swedish nationwide handball staff, has had Spain as his base since then and Montse, the mom of the three youngsters (Max has two youthful siblings), is Spanish.
In the summertime of 2018, when Svensson was 16 years previous, he was seen as a brilliant promise in UE Cornella, Barcelona’s third largest membership.
– All the large golf equipment in Spain wished him, besides Atletico Madrid as a result of that they had already taken his attacking associate in Cornella. The three largest golf equipment in Italy have been additionally on, providing extra financially than the Spanish, and an English membership. FC Barcelona pushed exhausting, father Tomas informed Sportbladet 2020.
The selection fell on Espanyol, Barcelona’s second largest membership, to which Max nonetheless belongs however from the place he was loaned to first Deportivo La Coruna final season and now Osasuna (following which largely within the B staff).
When Sportbladet talks to Tomas at this time, he says that there was by no means any contact with the Swedish Soccer Affiliation.
– However there have most likely been some misunderstandings, each from the Spanish and Swedish sides. Right here in Spain, folks have talked regarding “the Swede Max Svensson”.
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full display Tomas Svensson Photograph: Ludvig Thunman / Bildbyrån
“A nice downside in that case”
Max is a Spanish citizen.
– However it might most likely be attainable to modify to Swedish citizenship as I’m from Sweden, says Tomas.
Have you ever talked to him regarding how he thinks if the Swedish confederation will get in contact?
– No, we’ve not talked regarding that. However it might be a nice downside in that case.
However on the finish of 2020, Max informed Sportbladet:
– I hope to be so good that I get to play in a nationwide staff. Whether or not it is for Spain or Sweden does not matter. I really feel the identical means regarding Sweden. The language can be an issue proper now, however I can study that.
Max has one yr left on his mortgage take care of Osasuna. Espanyol are at the moment qualifying to get once more to La Liga.
