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Graham Potter has been appointed as the new head coach of the Sweden national team.
"I am very honoured by the task, but also incredibly inspired,” Potter said in a statement.
“Sweden has fantastic players who deliver in the world's best leagues week after week. My task will be to create the right conditions so that we as a team can perform at the highest level and lead Sweden to the World Cup next summer.”
The chairman of the Swedish Football Association, Simon Astrom, said: "It is still our goal to get to the World Cup next summer.
"Our hope is to play the playoffs in March and all the decisions we have made now have been made based on optimising the conditions to be able to reach our goal.
"We have worked structured and focused on this process during the past week and with Graham Potter we get a strong and experienced leadership that has been tested at the absolute highest level, he says."
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