News of FC Copenhagen goalkeeper Kamil Grabara’s inclusion in the World Cup squad to replace the injured Bartłomiej Drągowski spread quickly and widely in the Danish media.
“In football, as you can see, everything always happens very quickly, sometimes even instantly. Yesterday, the desperate FCK star learned today that he was flying to his dream World Cup in Qatar,” commented the daily “Ekstrabladet”.
The media believe that Sunday in November has become tragic for one player, and great for another, but “that’s how football is”.
The TV2 television channel assessed that the start of Sunday’s away game against AGF Aarhus Grabara was already reconciled with the fact that he was not in the squad for the World Cup, but some time after his ended at 4 p.m. with another clean sheet (2:0), after the joy of winning in the locker room, he received a message telling him that he was there after all.”
The station pointed out that it was Drągowski’s “terrible and unpleasant” injury that robbed him of his World Cup dreams at the last moment and gave Grabara a place, but “he showed with his game at FCK that he fully deserved it.”
Other outlets have added that such situations are the bane not only of all footballers but also of managers all over the world.
Zbigniew Kuczynski (PAP)
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