The conflict, or at least the chilly relationship between the league captain and the star, seems to have improved a lot lately.
But Zlatan, who during the year criticized Andersson for not taking out players with a foreign background, has never claimed that Janne Andersson is a racist.
Says Janne Andersson.
Whatever they came up with in Milan, it has increased the chance that Ibrahimovic will wear the national team jersey again.
SMS contact
They have not spoken at the late November meeting.
But they have contact.
- We have had some text contact.
We had our talk down there and will keep in touch in the future and then you will see what that dialogue can result in, says Janne Andersson to DN.
In the interview, Andersson says that he likes to build the team around certain players, and that he assigns them different roles.
- Take someone like Zlatan for example, he should not run and tackle down on his own half of the field, that is not what he should add.
Maybe it's Sebastian Larsson's role in this team plus he should hit edge free kicks, Zlatan should not do that.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic himself has said that he has changed over the years, roughly in the way Janne Andersson is.
That he does not run as much down to his own half of the plan and values more when he has to take runs.
Mountains most important
If Zlatan makes a comeback, it means that he can compete with, among others, Marcus Berg.
Janne Andersson comments on this:
- In our attacking game, Marcus Berg is our most important player, he wins duels, puts other players in good positions, is involved in many goals and always the player who has the most runs into the opponents' penalty area.
When the opponents have the ball, all eleven players are defensive players and when we have the ball, all are attacking players.
We must work together as a collective.
When asked if Zlatan Ibrahimovic is in the next national team squad, Janne Andersson answers briefly.
- We'll see, we gather on March 22.
CLIP: Janne about the meeting with Zlatan: "He really opened up" (December 7, 2020)
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Janne about the meeting with Zlatan: "He really opened up"