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Most people have probably understood that Peter Forsberg is a winner of rank.
Now he admits that he not only gets fired up when he himself competes, but it can also happen when his three children play matches.
– When you get kids, it’s fun to see them compete, when it burns for them, he says in the Kanal 5 program “Over the Atlantic”.
Who doesn’t remember the classic feature with a really pissed off 20-year-old Peter Forsberg who just lost the SC final (Modo-Malmö) and blames everything on the referee Börje Johansson? He says that he is “horribly disappointed in Börje” and that the referee is “so fucking rubbish that I would slap him”. Every now and then “Foppa” exposed the winning skull that later came to define his entire career.
Win the competition on board
Forsberg is one of the participants in the new season of “Over the Atlantic” which is currently being broadcast on Kanal 5 and on Max. The program involves six well-known Swedes being helped by the world sailor Coo Krantz to sail from Gran Canaria to St. Martin in the West Indies, a voyage that takes between two and three weeks to complete.
Of course, the other five participants have – Suzanne Reuter, Clara Henry, Dante Zia, Kristoffer Appelquist and Anders “The Duck” Johansson – their prejudices about how the former hockey pro should be. It turns out they’re right about him being a big competitor anyway.
In episode 7, the last one that aired, they will have a helmsman competition on board where all participants get to steer the sailboat for five minutes each and the one who gets the longest in their minutes wins a bottle of Linie Aquavit. It turns out that it is actually Peter Forsberg who wins the challenge.
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– Most people think that you are an incredible winner who wants to win in everything you do and refuses to give up. And well… maybe it is. It has always been like that in all situations when you were younger. You always have to have a goal. You have to compete, he says in the program.
So is “Foppa” in the stands
He goes on to describe how he reasoned as a child, when the will to win shone through completely as soon as he was placed in such a situation.
– If you had a puck or ball in front of you, you could run as long as you wanted. Playing a training match was completely useless. It was complete rubbish. Why tackle someone then? Why should you take it then? When it came down to it, it was the most fun there was, he says.
Today he may have calmed down a bit. When the active hockey career ended, the natural opportunities to switch on the adrenaline disappeared. But he admits in “Over the Atlantic” that sometimes he fires up when one of his three children Lennox, Lily or Diego playing match. Then there can even be shouting up in the stands.
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– When you get kids, it’s fun to see them compete, when they’re fired up. But it’s not like I’m standing in the stands and shouting. I don’t do that. Or not often anyway. I’ve actually done it once. “But work at home then. We are below. Must score”. At the soccer game, he admits.
Nice that you share and dare to admit your behavior, Peter. Surely many who feel the same as you. As long as it doesn’t get out of hand and affect the children.
Thank you for all the fantastic hockey memories you have given the Swedish people, “Foppa”. You are such a star and legend!
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