A Danish court has found Norwegian national team football player Andreas Schjelderup guilty of sharing sexual material of two under-18 boys and handed him a suspended prison sentence.

Schjelderup, 21, who last year played for Danish side FC Nordsjaelland, told the Copenhagen court he had received the 27-second video on the Snapchat social media app and had forwarded it to a group chat of four friends.

The winger, who now plays for Portuguese club Benfica, on Wednesday pleaded guilty and told the court he had realised from the first few seconds that the people in the video were under 18.

“As I forwarded it to my friends, I quickly realised that it was illegal and rapidly deleted the video,” Schjelderup said.

In a statement on Instagram on Saturday, Schjelderup apologised and said he wan

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