Håkan Sjöstrand on Hammarby's internal matches: "There is no room for creative interpretations"

Zlatan Ibrahimovic participated today in the internal matches played by Hammarby and their partner club IK Frej today at Tele2 Arena.

The matches were televised, and have caused major protests in several places. Among other things, they are criticized by Sportbladet's chronicler Patrik Brenning.

Expressens Noa Bachner:

"This went against everything Tegnell appealed to and the sad thing is that Hammarby will get away with it," Brenning writes.

Bachner: "When most people listened to what the authority actually said, Hammarby noted what it didn't say."

Sports Manager Jesper Jansson received questions from Dplay about how they thought, and then defended himself:

- I think it looks like this on all football training plans around Sweden. It becomes difficult to relate to. It's our guys, they meet every day and then there are different sizes of the game, sometimes it's eight to eight and sometimes it's eleven to eleven. That's what it looks like, he said.

- You try to be a little creative and find some new solutions.

When SVT Sport talks to the Swedish Football Association's secretary general Håkan Sjöstrand, he has not seen Hammarby's internal matches, but is still clear about what applies:

- A pandemic is underway right now, and then there is no room for creative interpretations and finding loopholes that risk being wrong. It is very important that we all take responsibility for the situation that prevails and that we keep a good margin on the right side of the authorities' decisions and recommendations and I assume that everyone has understood it, he says, and continues:

- If you disregard the rules and guidelines that exist, then it is also about adult responsibility and using common sense. We have to think all the way through which signals different behaviors send.

City epidemiologist Anders Tegnell received a question about the event at today's press conference.

- The regulations are clear: There should be no matches at senior level. What you then define as a match and not a match ... that question may go to the Swedish Football Federation and the National Sports Federation, but the regulations are very clear, he said.