The head coach of the Finnish national football team, Markku Kanerva, commented on the beer buzz about the new Huuhkaji brought up by the Swedish Fotbollskanale on Wednesday at the winter camp.
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Head coach of the Finnish national football team Markku Kanerva took a stand on the Swedish media’s coverage at the national team’s media conference on Wednesday.
Swedish football website Fotbollskanalen (you switch to another service) titled his podcast in a way that Kanerva didn’t like. The title was “a new Finnish beer scandal on the January tour”.
In the podcast, the Huuhkajie coaching staff’s alcohol consumption at the winter camp in Portugal was surprising.
– Ridiculous thing, but I have to comment when our player is also involved. It’s stupid that such nonsensical things are told on social media. There are very few stories now, if something like this starts to make headlines, Kanerva snorted.
The podcast told how the members of the Finnish national football team had enjoyed beer on the hotel’s terrace on Tuesday.
Kanerva clarified Tuesday night’s events from the Algarve before Thursday’s match against Estonia.
– We had the afternoon and evening free yesterday. Four (national team) background members played good padel games, after which we went to the hotel’s terrace to have one small beer. Some Swedish journalist had apparently seen all this and made an incredible conclusion, Kanerva smiled widely.
In the broadcast, we laughed at Huuhkajien’s Abu Dhabi beer boom
In 2017, Fotbollskanalen brought up a similar “beer scandal” from the winter camp of the Finnish national football team in Abu Dhabi.
Five years ago, according to the site, some of the managers of the Finnish A national team had appeared in representative costumes with beer in the capital of the United Arab Emirates.
– I wonder that four or five Finnish bosses are sitting at a table drinking beer in the afternoon. It’s clear that you can have beer, but I think it’s weird if it’s done in national team uniforms, a Swedish journalist who lives in the same hotel in Abu Dhabi with Huuhkajie Olof Lundh reviewed five years ago.
“Disrespectful and unfair”
Today’s Fotbollskanalen Podcast also fondly remembered the former Huuhkajie captain Tim Sparviawho showed good humor in the aftermath of the “scandal” of the past years.
In 2017, journalist Lundh published a photo on his own Instagram account in which Sparv came and offered him a bottle of beer in the middle of the day – and of course in national team clothes.
– Well, now there is humor. I’ll skip this beer as I’m at work. But I like the gesture, Lundh wrote at the time.
Kanerva found the latest news from the Swedes “absolutely incomprehensible”.
– I think this is also disrespectful and unfair, when some player named is included in the nonsense, Kanerva said.