Earlier this summer, Pontus Jansson drew criticism for the Swedish national team.
Now he says in an interview with Viaplay that he has apologized to Janne Andersson.
– He has nothing to do with Jean, he says.
Announced in August last year pontos anise To end up in the Swedish national team. In a big interview with Sedsvenskan at the beginning of June, the center back said he was disappointed with the national team.
Especially for how they treated him after losing to Croatia (1-2) and Portugal (0-3) in the Nations League in the fall of 2020.
– I had to put up with almost all the foolishness in two bad internationals. He said at the time that they might not have done it with all the players.
“If it meant something to me personally, I would be very sad and disappointed,” Sweden captain Jan Andersson replied.
I apologize
In an interview with Viaplay, Jansson now says he has apologized to Anderson.
– I texted Janne in the following days, because he also received questions about these things at his press conference. I wrote that I didn’t want this to take away energy from his important Nations Legaue matches, then wrote a script and apologized for having to stand up and answer those questions, he says.
– I have nothing to do with Jan and Peter (Wettergren, assistant captain of the federation) or sports management.
– Without more of what you could have handled a little better, I said that maybe you could have handled it a little bit better, protecting your player…well protect me in that case. At the same time, I’m adamant I’ll get it because I wasn’t good enough, because when you’re good you can hear it and if you’re bad you can hear it. Maybe it was more that I wasn’t ready for it.