Amanda Ilestedt, 28, is one of the players selected in Peter Gerhardsson’s latest national team squad. In the club team Paris Saint-Germain, the 28-year-old has ended up in the middle of a big scandal.
PSG star Kheira Hamraoi has been beaten by two masked men. Initially, Hamraoui’s teammate, Aminata Diallo, was suspected of being behind the incident. Now, however, the French police have changed direction and suspect that revenge may be the cause of what happened, it reports both L’Equpie and The world.
Paris Saint-Germain tried in vain to postpone Sunday’s summit with Lyon, a match that the French big club then lost by a full 6-1. When the incident occurred, Magnus Wikman, assistant league captain, was in France visiting Amanda Ilestedt.
– When the players are in their clubs, we do not talk so much. Magnus Wikman was there during the period it happened, so they have talked. But what they’ve talked about stays between them. We do not really know what has happened more than that she (Kheira Hamraoui) has been beaten, says national team captain Peter Gerhardsson to Fotbollskanalen.
Have you heard of something similar before?
– I do not even know what it is that has happened more than that a player has been beaten and that it has taken strange turns afterwards. Sometimes I think you speculate too early without knowing. We will see when everything has been investigated, because an investigation is underway. That a player is beaten and beaten is sad and sad.
Magnus Wikman believes that at the time of the visit he only had a superficial knowledge of what had happened and thus did not talk to Amanda Ilestedt about the incident.
– I was not there when it happened and when I arrived a few days later I had only read about it in the media. I watched a training session and a match, then I talked to Amanda and her coach. I will only be there for sporting purposes, says Magnus Wikman to Fotbollskanalen.
Did you not talk to her about it?
– No, we did not talk about it. I just knew that a teammate of hers had been beaten and as long as it was not Amanda who was affected, I did not feel we needed to talk about it.
Have you or anyone else in the national team management had any dialogue with her afterwards?
– We have chosen not to talk about it that way but instead just talk about everything about football. If Amanda wants to talk about it, we’ll take it then. It’s so individual how to handle a thing like this while we do not know exactly what has happened or how big it is.
How does the national team handle such an event in general?
– We have a psychological advisor who is very good at capturing things like this. Then we will see when we gather how Amanda feels and if there is something she wants to talk about, she will probably hear from her now that she is taken out.
Sweden gathers in November to play against Finland at home on November 25 and against Slovakia at home on November 30 in the World Cup qualifiers.
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