Shutting down social media during the JVM – Aftonbladet

Junior World Championship not only means a great hockey experience. In many cases, it also means a public breakthrough with accolades and derision in social media.

But they do not notice Junior crowns of.

– We’ll shut it down, says Anton Karlsson.

To succeed in a JVM makes you a star overnight. Recall, for example, Max Friberg, who went from unknown in SHL-bottom team Timra to become the top scorer in the Swedish team.

But it goes fast in the other direction too. Robert Hägg was a critical miss when Sweden lost the gold in Malmö against Finland. When he began the subsequent tournament a little shakily came hatred on social media. On Twitter, cooked it and it was created through a parody account in his name. READ ALSO New setback: Can miss the premiere

“Becomes much shit”

– I do not care really in what everyone else thinks. As long as Richard and the other coaches are happy with that I perform and help the team win, we are satisfied, he said then.

And just to shut out the outside world continues to be the key to a JVM success. Anton Karlsson, who makes his third straight championship, says that when the team gathered so shuts down the Instagram and Twitter and other social media.

– We will do the same as we did in the past too. We have some media rules and I think that’s good. Otherwise it will be a lot of talk around the team that should not be there, he said.

There was a lot of talk about Hägg last year, it is a trigger for this decision?

– No, we’ve had it before also. There is always something crappy, it must be prepared for. Some do not like at all what you do and some do it, says Karlsson, who do not even usually read the newspapers during the championships:

– It can be negative thoughts, we are the team that says we should not read stuff , it can lower both self and others. READ ALSO

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“Selected a tough profession”

Head coach Rikard Grönborg do not want to talk about something social media ban.

– We have agreed on some things, and it is above all the players who made it, but it’s not East Germany so that we say ‘no you can not do this stuff. ” We just ask them to focus on the right place, he said.

In a way, he sees tributes and hatred on social media as part of an education:

– The boys have to cope there, they have chosen a very tough profession and the profession means that you have to cope with such things, says Grönborg.