Sweden coach Jon Dahl Tomasson was fired on Tuesday after overseeing a woeful World Cup qualifying campaign in which he failed to get the best out of a team filled with players from Europe's leading clubs.

Tomasson, a former Denmark striker hired last year as Sweden’s first foreign-born coach, lost his job a day after a humiliating 1-0 home loss to Kosovo that left the Swedes in last place in their World Cup qualifying group with one point from four games.

Alexander Isak, who recently joined Liverpool as English soccer's most expensive player ever, called it a “crisis situation.” Fellow striker Viktor Gyökeres, who recently joined Premier League leader Arsenal, summed it up as a “fiasco.”

Simon Åström, chairman of the Swedish Football Association, was less dramatic, simply saying: “The

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