Zlatan Ibrahimovic's play about Janne Andersson's lack of players of foreign origin shook football football on Tuesday. But it turned out that Ibrahimovic's claim was not correct.
SVT Sports reporter Diljen Otlu, who has been monitoring the Swedish men's national team since 2016, believes the claim can do more harm than good.
- He reduces such an important issue to just throwing out things that are not right and that is a problem when he is who he is. He is Sweden's biggest player of all time, a lot of people listen to everything he does, says Otlu.
He, on the other hand, thinks that the issue itself should be able to be raised.
- This is an important issue for Sweden, do you feel represented by your national team? Some claim that everything is about winning matches, abslout. But if all eleven come from the same family, then we have a problem because then not everyone could hold onto that national team.
- What he says is not right. Then the question can be discussed, but then it must be done on the right grounds. This is not it.
SVT's expert Markus Johannesson agrees.
- The coatings are not quite right. Janne Andersson and his leadership team have been very much the opposite. The way the Durmaz deal was handled after the Germany match, the statement the national team made against racism. The way he responds to women's football, where he clearly shows that he is against the discrimination that has existed there. Or that you walk in the Pride train. I think they have been clear in their leadership that they stand for inclusion, says Johannesson.
- When Zlatan refused and disappeared from the national team they had to build the team in a different way, you have to have respect for that. What background the players have I do not think for a second that Janne Andersson and Peter Wettergren take into account.
See the clip where Zlatan Ibrahimovic criticizes Janne Andersson: