Sweden to return home as unforgettable heroes

• Sweden reach quarter-final since fabled class of 1994
• Pride resonates through the squad
• Captain Granqvist: "I’m extremely proud of this team"
  
  
  

By Alexandra Jonson with Sweden 

Like clockwork there is a FIFA World Cup™ and like clockwork everybody in Sweden discusses 1994. However, now, following 24 years, the Swedes at long last have another World Cup story to discuss and recollect.

At the point when the last shriek went in Samara on Saturday the Swedish players all tumbled to the ground, whipped and with tears falling their cheeks. "You feel extremely disillusioned and miserable, you would prefer not to leave Russia", Robin Olsen said after the match.
Before long Janne Andersson gathered his players and the instructing staff before the Swedish supporters, to have a discussion. With their arms around each other, the players tuned in as the mentor attempted to help them to remember the inconceivable accomplishment they had accomplished. Furthermore, little by little it began to soak in.

"I have this tremendous pride for this group," Olsen said. "Of what we have done together. From the principal coordinate in the qualifiers against the Netherlands, the play-off against Italy and after that result in these present circumstances World Cup and do this. It's something we will have the capacity to glance back at and be to a great degree glad for."

Back home in Sweden, the country has been in a grasp of finish World Cup fever. The Swedish national group shirts sold out in stores and on the web, millions watched the matches before the TV, conveying the whole nation to a stop. Furthermore, regardless of whether it's late spring, the average Christmas tree - spruce trees - have been more famous than any other time in recent memory.

The reason being that Sweden's chief Andreas Granqvist is nicknamed 'Granen' which means Spruce in Swedish. A gathering was even begun by a few fans to purchase the greatest conceivable cluster of blossoms for Granqvist and his better half as their second tyke was conceived the day preceding the quarterfinal. The gathering achieved such a high sum, that the family got blooms as well as spruces sent to them. What's more, a major gift was made to the task 'Allas rätt till en gran' ('Everyone's entitlement to a spruce') which gives Christmas trees to individuals who can't bear the cost of one themselves.

"I think we have recorded history in Sweden, with this execution" Emil Forsberg said after the match. Taking a gander at how the nation has responded, there is presumably that he is correct.

"We didn't have the chances on our side when we resulted in these present circumstances World Cup and we made it to the quarter-finals. We must be pleased, yet you never need it to end," said Marcus Berg.

Addressing FIFA after the match, head mentor Janne Andersson stated: "We have made a group that worked exceptionally well, the folks together, the way we've played football. It's conflicted with the best on the planet a few times. This time we played a group that may go the distance, England look great. Be that as it may, we have a method for playing and the young men's state of mind has been amazing."

While the spruce, Granqvist himself, put it like this: "I'm to a great degree glad for this group, the training staff and everybody who's been a piece of this, how we've all acted this mid year," he told FIFA. "We made it to a quarter-last, it's been a long time since we were last at this stage. So I have an unfathomable bliss and pride for what we chronicled this mid year"

On Sunday, Sweden leave their group base in Gelendzihk, and they leave Russia. Be that as it may, when they touch base in Stockholm, they do as such as saints. Legends that like those in 1994, will be talked about for a long time to come.