{"id":466018,"date":"2023-10-17T01:09:42","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T05:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=466018"},"modified":"2023-10-17T08:14:36","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T12:14:36","slug":"sweden-say-it-was-impossible-to-continue-after-terrorist-attack","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/sweden-say-it-was-impossible-to-continue-after-terrorist-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden say it was &#8216;impossible to continue&#8217; after terrorist attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The coach of Sweden, Janne Andersson, and the captain of the team, Victor Lindelof, explained how the European qualification with Belgium was stopped at half-time (1:1) because of the terrorist act in Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>At least two Swedish fans were killed in an attack by a follower of &#8220;Islamic State&#8221; in the city, which happened before the football match.<\/p>\n<p>Sweden&#8217;s players and coaching staff learn the tragic news at half-time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I went down to the break and I get this information and I immediately feel that it is completely unreal in some way. What kind of world do we live in today? I am terribly sorry,&#8221; said Janne Andersson, quoted by Swedish publication Aftonbladet.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Euros qualifier between Belgium and Sweden has been abandoned after the players decided not to come out for the second half following reports of a shooting in Brussels where two Swedish football fans were killed. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/u2rDVbaW6l\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/u2rDVbaW6l<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 B\/R Football (@brfootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brfootball\/status\/1714014213469790293?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When we started talking about it with the players, we were 100% unanimous that we didn&#8217;t want to play, out of respect for the injured and their families,&#8221; continued the Sweden coach. Swedish national team captain Viktor Lindelof took matters into his own hands on the half time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I tried to talk to all the players about how they felt and then I felt I had to talk to the Belgian players and explain how we see the situation. As Janne said, we were very clear that we didn&#8217;t want to continue the match. We explained everything to the Belgians and they totally agreed,&#8221; says Lindelof.<\/p>\n<p>He also spoke about the discussions with the players at half-time. &#8220;Those who brought their families or friends here wanted to try to contact them directly and see that they were OK. I think our security team did a very good job of explaining the situation to us. They reassured us and &#8220;They said the stadium is the safest place in Brussels at the moment. We felt quite safe there, although people started to worry,&#8221; Lindelof added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The coach of Sweden, Janne Andersson, and the captain of the team, Victor Lindelof, explained how the European qualification with Belgium was stopped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":466019,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17338,17082,18241],"news_category":[14236,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[18001,18422,19552],"acf":{"announce":"Horrible accident stopped the clash against Belgium at half time","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/466018"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466018"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/466018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466097,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/466018\/revisions\/466097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466018"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=466018"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=466018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}