Swedish professional after the verdict: "Very happy and relieved"

A former Allsvenskan football player was charged with having received a yellow card - in exchange for borrowing SEK 300,000.

But when Malmö District Court announced the verdict today, the message was that the player was acquitted on all charges.

- He was very happy, of course.

And relieved, even though he knew he had clean flour in the bag, says the player's lawyer Frank Thorstensson to SVT Sport.

How has this two-week wait for the verdict been for him?

Has he been nervous?

- He's not feeling well, as you probably understand.

He has been suspended from what he lives for, that is, to play football, for a very long time.

So it has damaged him very much, and it has damaged his reputation as well.

But nervous, I do not know if he has been.

We have always believed in what we presented in court, that we have nothing to do with this.

Suspended for the time being

The player has been suspended from football worldwide since February.

After the Swedish Football Association suspended him in Sweden pending the disciplinary committee's ruling, they then asked the International Football Association to do the same.

The Swedish Football Association's disciplinary committee has, at the request of the players in question, chosen to wait to make its final decision until the court process has been decided.

Whether the current player will act against SvFF and Fifa after today's acquittal is not yet clear.

- We must first wait to see if this will be appealed or not.

And I have not talked to him about whether we should take any action in terms of damages or so, I have not had time to discuss that yet, says lawyer Frank Thorstensson.

"A well-written verdict"

Prosecutor Staffan Edlund has not yet decided whether or not to appeal the verdict.

- I think that the district court has made a well-written judgment.

We will examine it more carefully and see if there is reason to appeal the acquittal, he says to SVT Sport.

At the same time, he explains that he is not too disappointed that the futsal player was not jailed - despite the prosecutor demanding 14 months in prison.

- Game cheating has never been tried before, so it is difficult to know where to land in that case, remarkably. We thought that there was reason to impose a harsher punishment than what the district court did in this case. Even there, we have to think about whether there is reason to analyze whether there is reason to move on, says Edlund.