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The aftermath of the huge fight between Janne Andersson and Bojan Djordjic has become a lot about racism.
Now former national team goalkeeper Rami Shaaban gives his view on it and says what everyone is thinking.
– I honestly believe so, admits Shaaban in SVT’s “Morgonstudion”.
Sweden had just defeated Azerbaijan 5-0 and taken the first victory in the European Championship qualifiers. Then everything broke loose and a historic television moment was created live at the Viaplay studio.
Janne’s question
The Swedish national team captain Jan Andersson visited and ended up in a very heated discussion with the TV expert Bojan Djordjic. After arguing for several minutes, Janne chose to leave the television studio in pure anger.
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The aftermath has since become very much about racism. If there was a racist undertone in Janne Andersson’s loaded words to Bojan: “What do you represent?”
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Buoy hit
The national team captain firmly claimed at a press conference that it was not a question of any racism at all. While Djordjic experienced it in a completely different way and felt hit by a question about his origin.
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Many have had opinions about this since then and now even the former national team goalkeeper gives in Rami Shaaban into the fierce debate. The 47-year-old, with 15 caps for the Swedish A national team, visited SVT’s “Morgonstudion” on Wednesday and gave his honest view of the giant brawl on television.
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Shaaban’s words
Shaaban then says what everyone is really thinking, that everything is based on a big misunderstanding.
– I honestly believe that from Janne’s side it is nothing racist, then I understand that Bojan interprets it the way he does. So to me it’s just a big misunderstanding. I have met Bojan, I know what he is like and I know what Janne is like. So that for me is not a thing, there is no racism when it comes to Janne in that way. So that it was just a boring event, I would like to say, says the former goalkeeper in the TV show.
Also Emil Erikssonfrom the podcast “Snett nåt kåt”, was there as a guest and also gives his explanation.
– If Bojan is going to accuse Janne of being racist, let him do it fully, so to speak. Now he went out and said that Janne’s intentions don’t matter, but that he is still hurt. It might be a bit fuzzy and I think that is a bit unfair to Janne. In that case, Bojan has to back it up completely and say “then Janne is lying to me, it was his intention to question my Swedishness”. Now there will be some kind of middle ground which I think is unfortunate, says Eriksson in SVT.
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