Finnish superstar Susanna Tabani is back at the Ice Hockey World Cup after a controversial wedding fad.
She scored a goal when her team crushed Japan 9-3.
– I’m so sorry, she said to Yle before the match.
Thabane left the bathroom for home for a friend’s wedding and missed the game against the United States.
An emotional event in Finland.
Thabane is not apologizing for the World Cup boycott of a wedding, but for the uproar it caused.
– I left on Friday when we didn’t have a match and came back on Sunday. I paid for the trip myself. No need for further discussion. At the time, it seemed like a good decision. My friends and family are important to me. We made the decision together and now I have to live with it, I told Yle before the match against Japan.
‘Could be a miscalculation’
The Finnish team’s management initially tried to hide the reason for Thabane’s absence, describing it as “personal reasons”. But the news of her visit to the wedding, amid the burning of the World Cup, was leaked.
Nu är förbundskaptene Juuso Toivola, som gav Tapani grönt ljus, ångerfull:
– Of course we thought if the decision was right. We should think about how to think about such cases in the future. This may be a miscalculation. Sadly, we caused such a disturbance. We are so sorry.
Finland, which has won bronze in the past Olympics and World Cup, has won one and lost two matches so far.