The 30-year-old midback has been monumental to Djurgården, who tops the Swedish table. He was also rumored to be rewarded for it with a place in the squad for this week's European qualifying matches. When he was not on the list, agent Arash Bayat in Sportbladet raged:
- What the hell is that? It's a real scandal. When allsvenskan is the hottest ever, you have a player who has performed so damn well all year and yet does not come along. What is that signal? What are you looking for? What to expect from a player. You piss on your own league, he told the newspaper.
At Monday's press conference, Andersson responds to the criticism.
- I take out other players from allsvenskan. I have been 19 years in allsvenskan and have 491 allsvenskan matches. I think I'm the last one to piss on all Swedes if we use that term now. Marcus Danielsson has done a great canon season in Djurgården and is really involved in the talk. Now he came outside, we will see what it is next time.
Sweden meets the Faroe Islands away on Thursday and Norway at home on Sunday. One of the major challenges can be the switch to artificial turf before the match against the Faroe Islands.