“Abused färgblindheten – to win the pojkmatchen”
“Handbollsmålvakten Christopher Fredin from Borlänge is 16 years old and color blind.”
“The amount of opponents in the USM when they won, having refused to switch to a ball he saw.”
“It was terribly hard,” says Fredin.”
“Where is the line between clever tactics and unsportsmanlike behaviour? “
“The past weekend posed the question on its head when the city of Borlänge HK’s sextonåringar played USM in handball. “
“the Goalkeeper Kristoffer Fredin has a rarer form of color blindness, tritanopi, which makes it difficult to distinguish the shades between yellow and blue on the color scale. To the hall’s floor was blue and the wood yellowish, was in itself no problem, as long as the ball had a different color.”
“But in spite of Fredins protests to the election of a yellow ball.”
“the Coach shakes his head”
“A film from the game shows how the 16-year-old acting erratic and uncertain during the first half. A ball sitting in front of the cross while he appears to others. Another shot goes straight on, but he keeps his hands too low and control the ball in own goal. He saves a couple of shots, but they have more the character of the chances.”
“At half time he goes up to the judges and tells of their difficulties. A matchinstruktör called there and she is proposing a red-orange ball, which Fredin seem to prefer. But then puts himself in the opposing coach on the crosswise, shakes his head and refuses to change, which he, in the capacity of hemmalagsledare have the right to do.”
“So the second half continues in the same way. The opponents draws from and leads with four balls when Fredin gets enough and leaves the plan. With reservmålvakten between the posts lose his Borlänge and afterwards is Christopher Fredin confused and angry.”
“– Before the game I said that I did not see the ball. They seemed not to believe me, so I thought that I had to give it a chance. It was the CHAMPIONSHIP, ” he says.”
“They patted me on the shoulder””
“How hard was it to see the ball?”
“– You look at the movie that I look in a completely different direction when the ball traveling towards me. The from the the page said that I made my movements a second later than I usually do: the ball went in the goal and then came the movement.”
“How do you see that the opponents refused to change the ball?”
“– It popped up strange feelings in the body. They do this just to win? They want to use that I don’t see? Is it all a misunderstanding? But they must surely have seen that I did not act as a goalkeeper usually does.”
“How often does this happen to you?”
“– this was The first time in life. Every other match, we select the color, the other times we have an alternative or ask the opponents to take another color if it becomes a problem. There has never been a problem.”
“did you speak with their coach afterward?”
” Yes. They patted me on the shoulder and went on. They were not open for any discussion.”
“”the Trainer said tvärnej””
“the Opponents acted completely within the handball regulations. They have the right to propose a ball as long as the judges approve. Should a change come up in the speech, the ball must be unusable. “
“But was it ethically justifiable to do so in a pojkmatch? Matchinstruktören and regiondomaren Jennifer Sandström do not like it. She became irritated when the coach declined the red ball, but lacked the authority to defy the decision.”
“– It is awful. He said tvärnej and shook his head, so I became frustrated on the inside. It was a shame about the kid. All understood his frustration, ” says Sandström.”
“do you Think that the rules should be rewritten?”
” Yes. I’ll meet domarbaserna soon and to talk with him about what we should do. For something must be done!”
“the Question is greater than to apply a person and a match, it considers the goalkeeper Kristoffer Fredin. Seven-eight per cent of all men are color-blind, one per cent of the women, and it shouldn’t stop them from team sports.”
“– There must be a trust between the teams. If that doesn’t work, you can have a medical certificate saying that the person is color blind and that the opponents are not going to beat the coins out of it. It should apply all the way up at senior level for this should not be allowed to happen, ” he says.”
