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Roger Rönnberg taped his own mouth during the match against Skellefteå and was then called a “clown” by hockey icon Håkan Loob.
Now the Frölunda coach steps forward and defends his behavior.
– If you have stood here for 20 years and done these interviews, I lose myself in any case, he says to SVT.
Next season takes Roger Rönnberg53, over Swiss Fribourg-Gotteron. Now he is in his last year with Frölunda and the coach is determined to finish in style. During the season, and also in previous years, he has speked in several in his match interviews in TV4 Play. It has caused people to react in different ways.
The experts saw Rönnberg
One who has criticized Rönnberg, especially for his latest invention with the taped-over mouth, is his former player Robin Figren.
– If you want to hear my personal opinion, it’s gone, I think it’s bullshit. I’m well aware that I’m farting in the incubator when I have to complain about someone else doing this. Ballat ur is perhaps the wrong word, but it is too often and then I think that they (Rönnberg and TV4’s Patrick Westberg) need to up the ante on the jokes. If they are going to run at this frequency, in every interview and every time, then they have to be a little more fun, says the ex-player in the podcast “Klubbland”, which is produced by Göteborgs-Posten.
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Also the hockey icon, as well as the SVT expert, Håkan Loob think that Roger Rönnberg must give up now.
– I’m actually a little annoyed. This time at Roger Rönnberg. It has gone a little too far. The SHL is an incredibly serious league. This stuff Roger delivers is not to maintain seriousness. You are welcome to entertain, but I think Roger has taken this far too far. You have to have more respect for the league. I want to snap for him to sharpen up, says Loob in “Hockey evening” and continues:
– There will be a little too much clowning. You have to stick to the facts. Then you can be entertaining in the answers in any case. But it must not go too far. It is one of the world’s best series. A little more seriousness, I think.
Rönnberg’s defense
According to a survey conducted by SVT, the Swedish people still seem to be on Roger Rönnberg’s side. According to the channel, 71 percent of the respondents in a survey answered that they liked the antics of the Frölunda profile. 29 percent agreed with Loob. Roger Rönnberg himself is not particularly concerned.
– No, after you turn 50, I don’t care what other people think. I don’t take it too seriously. I can understand that there is a limit where things can’t get silly. If you’ve been standing here for 20 years and doing these interviews, I lose myself in any case. Then I can imagine that it’s fun that someone does something different, he says.
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At the same time, he says that he is tired of the fact that all interviews are usually so “casual” and that he cannot bear to say the same things all the time. In other words, he will not stop delivering slightly more fun and different answers to the commentators’ questions.
Good there, Roger. Stand your ground! SHL needs more profiles like you.
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