Swedish landsholdsstjerne stops immediately: - I was born in a wrong body

The Swedish midfielder Louise Sand stops håndboldkarrieren on the top.

It tells the 26-year-old top player in the social media Instagram and in a podcast. The reason is that she feel more like a man than a woman.

- It is incredibly difficult, but at the same time incredibly liberating to recount it here for you.

- I have now chosen to put håndboldskoene on the shelf for always. I have broken my contract with my club team Fleury. The club and the girls have been absolutely amazing, writes Louise Sand on Instagram.

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Hello, detta är jobbigt och simultaneously befriande att berätta för is. Jag has now valt att lägga handbollskorna at hyllan föralltid. Jag has broken into the mitt contract with the mitt klubblag Fleury. The club och tjejerna har varit completely underbara. Tack ”alla” clubs för dessa year. Tack alla total jag gotten äran att spela in och allt people runtomkring idrotten. Tack för att jag has gotten äran att bära den svenska landslagströjan in so many years, came up in mer än 100 landskamper. Trodde jag never. Tack också mamma och pappa för att ni always have kört me till matches and träningar late jag varit liten, framförallt att ni stöttar me genom detta och älskar me oavsett vad, samma with mina älskade polar. Jag älskar. The finns an opportunity varför jag has slutat, detta ni lyssna in utkastpodden (Spotify/podcaster) in extraavsnittet now där jag place alla. on the table. Jag has lyssnat on avsnittet och jag låter väldigt känslokall och pratar om detta as nothing. But it was svårt att göra it on något annat sätt, stakar me also on a number of words. Jag hoppas ni förstår och respekterar mitt beslut. Nu är det dags att leva mitt liv on riktigt

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In a podcast she explains why she has chosen to stop in a relatively early age.

I was born in a wrong body, she says, among other things in the podcast.

Louise Sands has played more than 100 matches for Sweden's defense can also touch, but it's over now. The contract with the French Fleury has also been repealed.

- Now is the day come, where I'm supposed to live my life right, she writes on Instagram.

In the broadcast, explains Louise True, that she, qua its status as a well-known person is not able to hide the challenges she has long struggled with. Her decision to come forward is also linked with, that she will make it easier for his relatives.

- For that they must get rid of lying about the real reason as to why I chose to put the håndboldkarrieren on the shelf, says the Sand in the program, according to Aftonbladet.

- Life is too short not to take care of the problems that can be solved in today's Sweden, she says.

Sand was born in Sri Lanka before she's four months old was adopted by a Swedish family.

She represented Sweden as late as at the european championship finals last month in France, where the Swedish national team ended up as number six.

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