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Sweden’s national team captain Janne Andersson was in central Brussels, wearing national team clothes, just hours before Monday’s terrorist act.
It was the last time he went to town dressed like that.
– I think I will probably never do that again, he says in SVT.
After two Swedish fans were shot dead in Brussels ahead of Sweden’s European Championship qualifier against Belgium in the same city, supporters at the match arena were urged not to wear national team shirts visibly.
Janne admits
The men’s national team’s national team captain Jan Andersson will henceforth follow the same advice when it comes to his own clothes.
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Just hours before the crime, he was in Brussels himself, wearing national team clothes, together with the assistant national team captain Peter Wettergren and the match monitor Lasse Jacobssonto meet representatives from the Östergötland and Dalarna football associations.
– I don’t have a thought that I shouldn’t be able to wear national team clothes now and then. Then when this happens in the evening, you start to think, “I shouldn’t have done that of course”. And above all not with my perhaps famous face, says Janne Andersson in SVT’s Morgonstudion.
– I don’t normally go out in Swedish national team clothes. Because it’s the recognition factor too, so I usually wear private clothes when I’m out. But I will probably never do that again, I think.
Reinfeldt’s answer
The same should right now apply to both leaders and players, he tells Aftonbladet. In the men’s national team, it is otherwise common for them to take joint walks outdoors on match day.
– It doesn’t feel like we can do it. Can you really do it in national team clothes? It’s probably not something you should do right now. That’s the immediate feeling. Even though it’s something we’ve done all these years. Now you can’t walk around like that anymore, Andersson tells the newspaper.
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Chairman of the Swedish Football Association Fredrik Reinfeldt still want the call for discreet clothing to stop at a temporary solution. When Reinfeldt was a guest on SVT’s Aktuellt on Tuesday evening, he expressed a desire for Swedish football fans to be able to continue to wear national team jerseys. As in connection with the next EC qualifying match for the men’s national team, in Azerbaijan in November.
– My hope and my love for football is about getting to stand there with your shirts on. That’s how I want it to be in the future as well, and we must dare to live on. The allure is that football draws such a large audience all over the world and that goes with it, the supporter culture that exists is fantastic, and I hope that will show to those who go to Baku, said Reinfeldt.
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