Press stand falls onto pitch at Swedish World Cup base after detonation

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Press stand falls onto pitch at Swedish World Cup base after detonation
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Sweden, who train at FC Dallas' home stadium, watched as large parts of the stadium were being renovated. But something went wrong on Wednesday, resulting in one of the long sides collapsing onto the intended press stand that had been built over the past few weeks.

It was meant to fall the other way, an employee at Toyota Stadium tells Aftonbladet.

National team manager Stefan Pettersson says he found out about the incident on Wednesday, and emphasizes that it has not affected Blågult ahead of the upcoming match.

"Luckily, no one was injured. They probably detonated it and then something went wrong," Pettersson tells Aftonbladet.

The blue and yellow players were asked questions about the press stand:

"I just thought, 'What happened? As far as I know, there wasn't a storm. I was told it had fallen the wrong way,'" says Besfort Zeneli.

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