MILAN - Sweden coaches Lars Lagerback and Roland Andersson have explained through the Swedish FA’s website the reasons why Inter’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Juventus’ Olof Mellberg have been taken off the list of players called up for Wednesday’s international friendly against Holland in Amsterdam. The communiqué explains that Ibrahimovic and Mellberg asked to be exempted from international duty because of the recent intense fixture programme. In line with this decision, José Mourinho has decided to give Zlatan Ibrahimovic an extra day’s rest than the rest of the squad.
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