In the summer, Juventus to face Atlético Madrid at the Friends arena.
Stormötet is a part of the försäsongsturneringen International Champions Cup in addition to in Stockholm will be played at several locations in the united states and Asia as well as in Cardiff and of new Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London.
the News means that one of the world’s top footballers, Cristiano Ronaldo, are likely to play at Friends arena – something that is not entirely uncontroversial.
The Portuguese superstar is still accused of rape, a crime that is suspected to have taken place in Las Vegas in 2009.
Juventus because of this chosen to set their försäsongsturné in the united states because the Italian giants fear that Ronaldo will be arrested if he is staying on american soil.
To the club in the summer among other things, will instead play the match in Sweden is something that antimobbningsorganisationen Friends, which has given the Swedish national arena, looks problematic.
” We are very unhappy about this, that Friends coupled with allegations of an extremely serious crime. Crimes of sexual violence, and sexual harassment, is something that we in the foundation the Friends are actively working against all the time and we have done this in many years. We can not control what happens on stage but what I can say is that we are very unhappy about being associated with something like this, ” says Lovisa Lönnebo, head of communications at Friends, to Sportbladet.
intends to contact the organizer of the International Champions Cup, to express their dissatisfaction.
” today our general secretary, to contact the ICC and clarify for them what problems an organization with our values have to be associated with this type of accusations. They are a huge organization, and we are certainly a rare bird for them, but we feel that it is very important to clarify this issue and to take the position, ” says Lovisa Lönnebo to Sportbladet.