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Photo: CHRISTIAN ÖRNBERG / BILDBYRÅN
Häcken’s match against Djurgården on Wednesday will move due to a series of players on national team assignments.
Then the sporting director of Malmö FF is furious.
– We feel grounded, says Daniel Andersson to Kvällposten.
They got a no first.
So Häcken appealed the decision and was right.
This means that the match, which would have been played less than 24 hours after Sweden’s Under-21 team meets Italy, is moving. An under-21 national team with four Häcken players: Daleho Irandust, Pontus Dahlberg, Leo Bengtsson and Patrik Wålemark.
– An expected message, but equally pleasant. We had a hard time seeing, if you read the competition rules, that you could make a different decision, Häcken club manager Marcus Jodin said after his club was acquitted by the Appeals Chamber.
“We don’t want to meet you”
But not everyone is happy with the decision.
Malmö FF have Anders Christiansen (Denmark), Arnor Traustason (Iceland), Isaac Kiese Thelin (Sweden) and Felix Beijmo in the U21 team, like all players on Tuesday night.
Photo: CHRISTIAN ÖRNBERG / BILDBYRÅN
Isaac Kiese Thelin and Anders Christiansen will play international matches on Tuesday
– We don’t want to meet Örebro on Thursday. We have four players who are on their way with national teams playing a game on Tuesday night. But we are honoring the agreement that all Allsvenskan teams reached before the season, sports director Daniel Andersson tells Kvällsposten and continues:
– All the clubs agreed before the season that if we could have time to finish the season, there was no other way to do it than to play close after the team break. They all agreed on that. So I understand that everyone was in a situation where we really wanted to start the season and that now when you are here, you are in situations where you think of yourself.
“The big losers”
Daniel Andersson, who has chosen not to appeal the date of the match against Örebro despite not wanting to play that day, questions the decision of the Board of Appeal but at the same time does not want to criticize Häcken or any team in particular.
– We feel cheated. The big losers now are the teams that qualify for Europe. They should have expected Djurgården not to go to the Europa League. Because if they do, there is no date to play it, because it is not possible during the next national team break, says the Malmö FF sports manager.
Sportbladet seeks Cecilia Hager, who holds the chairmanship of the SvFF Appeals Board.
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