Surprisingly speech: “We are citizens of the world” – Swedish Dagbladet

The Swedish national football team, Erik Hamrén, during the press conference along with Kim Kallstrom at Friends Arena enters the crucial European Championship qualifying match against Austria. Photo: Pontus Lundahl / TT

Erik Hamrén started by stating that there is a change in the starting eleven was chosen on Tuesday against Austria, a match Sweden certainly have to win to keep Russia behind.

Refugees are people who are in difficult situations on the grounds that other people make very, very bad decision.

– The changes are not that anyone has been poor, but purely tactical. We want to get some more rested legs, said coach Hamrén.

If Zlatan’s being or not being on the pitch for ödesmatchen:

– There are positive after today’s workout but the decision on Zlatan will first in the morning. It can be everything from that he did not start at all, that he starts on the bench why he is in the starting eleven, says coach Hamrén, and made the parable of the friendly international against Finland where Ibrahimovic started on the bench and then came in and scored three goals.

– We hope and believe that at least he is available.

Football League hinted that there will be some kind of manifestation of the refugee question in the context of European Championship qualifiers against Austria at Friends.

– We will communicate our position in it. Some players have a big responsibility in this matter. It will, but we must wait, said press officer Niklas Bodell.

Once midfielder Kim Kallstrom was asked how he personally looks at the tragedy of the people displaced by Europe, mainly from Syria, he leaned forward at the press conference, gave a surprisingly impassioned:

– It is something that is so far away from sport but athletes and public people are able to make a bit of difference. If many people make little distinction gives it great power. So it is that football and sports clubs are doing around the world is great. One gets the feeling that it built up a movement not only of public people, but ordinary people at home are also thinking “what can I do to help people who ended up in a terrible situation.” Now you are not only citizens of his own country but all are citizens of the world and it is important that everyone is doing what they can for the people who ended up in very complex situations they created. It is important to add that there are people who got into very difficult situations because of other people’s very, very bad decision.

Erik Hamrén raised his eyebrows and started clapping hands on the podium:

– That I think was worth a round of applause.

Whereupon press officer Niklas Bodell broke the press conference.