Djurgården wanted to move Sunday’s match against Varberg to September 1, but was turned down.
Athletic director Boss Anderson is unhappy with the competition commission’s decision.
– He says that you are bitterly disappointed and lose faith in what is being said.
Djurgarden meets Apoel i Europa Conference League The playoff match is at home on Wednesday and back away from home next Tuesday. In the middle, he will face Djurgården Varberg.
The match was scheduled to take place on Sunday, but since there will be no two rest days between matches, the clubs agreed earlier to hold the match on Saturday, August 20. However, Djurgården wanted to move the meeting to 1 September after moving the play-off matches, but the Swedish Football Association’s competition committee refused.
You won’t be surprised, you won’t be surprised. Their job is to protect Swedish football and for Swedish teams to have good conditions in Europe. We have very bad conditions when we get to Wednesday, Tuesday and in between to play a match in Allsvenskan, says Djurgården Sports Director Bosse Andersson and continues:
– You can question knowledge. If you were assigned to work to ensure that Swedish clubs have good conditions in Europe and you make a decision like this… of course you will be disappointed. Then you can remove the point at which you have to work for Swedish football.
What motivation did you receive?
– The justification is that we play at 3 pm on Saturday. But we are not bitter, we understand Varberg’s terms. We begged and asked a health question because we were stuck. But nothing surprising, we were fully prepared.
‘hard to understand’
Boss Anderson continues:
– But you are bitterly disappointed and lose faith in what is said, that we must work for Swedish football. But I don’t think many of them were. You are making a decision that I, as a football manager, find it very difficult to understand. But it should not affect us. We have strong confidence in our coaches and our team.
Chairman Christer Gustafson says the Competition Commission has approved the decision.
– We have requested feedback from interested parties. The Swedish Cup also participated in two additional matches. Opponent Varberg, who has a home game, cannot play at home on September 1, as Djurgården wanted. So we decided to stay on Saturday, which the associations agreed on for a week or so. The fact that Djurgarden moved matches is beyond our control.
How do you think Djurgarden is disappointed and says that your task is to ensure that Swedish teams have better conditions in Europe, which they do not have now?
It’s not the only mission we have to protect at the European Games in Djurgården. We have everything to take care of and see that she is accommodated according to current regulations with two days off. Then I knew it was going to be a tough program for Djurgården, but that was the decision we made.