Sweden captain, Andreas Granqvist says an incident involving a Sweden spy at a South Korea training camp was “blown out of proportion”. Someone from Sweden’s coaching staff made it into a closed training session during South Korea’s training camp in Austria thinking that it was an open session and he was later asked to leave. The incident had dominated headlines ahead of the World Cup opener between the two sides on Monday, which Sweden won 1-0 thanks to Granqvist’s penalty.
“I think this has been blown out of proportion. The person monitoring South Korea for us by accident, during one training session, was possibly hiding. It’s been focused on too much. It was a good game out there, an honest fight between two good teams. I think we showed an excellent attitude out on the pitch. We are a team with fight. We run on behalf of each other. I am incredibly proud of all the lads and now we focus on the next match against Germany,” Granqvist told reporters after the match.