Anders Svensson was named the scapegoat at the 2006 World Cup.
Now, 16 years later, Fredrik Ljungberg is apologizing for the fact that he and his teammates didn’t stand by their teammate anymore.
– I am still ashamed of this and deeply annoyed myself, he says on TV6.
Anders Svensson or Kim Kallstrom.
It became the big snack during and after the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
Svensson started at the premiere against Trinidad and Tobago, but after less effort, a campaign was organized to bring in Källström.
Aftonbladet paperback was emblazoned with the headline “Requirement: In with Kim” after a column and a reader poll in which 95 percent answered that they wanted to see Kallstrom from the start in the next match.
Portions of fans took note of the headlines and brought banners to training where they booed Svensson.
– I didn’t put on a good show in 2006, but the treatment I got from newspapers and fans wasn’t deserved. You print out notes for all the Swedish supporters with “In with Kim”…then they can easily write “Out with Anders”. Of course they may think that someone else should play but it is exaggerated. It was very painful, Svenson said in “Masters of the Masters” in 2017.
“Holy Angry”
Before tonight’s Nations League match against Serbia, a feature was shown on TV6 where then-national captain Lars Lagerback recalls the tournament and delivers a scathing criticism of Aftonbladet.
When the feature was grabbed Frederic Ljungberg Ton issued a public apology to Anders Svensson.
The blood boils in the body and becomes angry when it is eaten again. We wanted to stop talking to the press. The Phalanges were created when Aftonbladet made this the thing they wanted Kim for. The media house said, “This is a sale. We are putting pressure on the masses and it will be a split.”
– When the fans started booing Anders in training…Anders did nothing wrong, he wasn’t bad. It was the media that came up with something to cause the split.
Anders, if you see this, I apologize on behalf of myself and the other players. I still feel bad about this today. We would have boycotted all the media, and we wouldn’t have talked at all, if it had made you feel a little better. I am still ashamed of this and deeply upset myself, says Ljungberg.
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