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He has met Sweden’s top sports stars.
During his 30 years as an active sports journalist.
Now Patrick Ekwall selects the one who has been the nicest.
59-year-old Patrick Ekwall is one of our most high-profile sports journalists. He has worked in the service of sport in all sorts of different roles for 30 years – as an evening newspaper reporter, television reporter, columnist, presenter, commentator, blogger and podcaster.
Ekwall’s sports career
The talkative Skåne is most associated with TV4, where he worked for 23 years with several different sports and major championships. Over many years, he met and interviewed Sweden’s top athletes several times.
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Ekwall has therefore gotten to know our blue and yellow sports heroes a little extra and managed to get a good picture of them as people. Because aside from their sporting achievements, they can be completely different people.
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Paying homage to the hockey icon
Now sports profiler Patrick Ekwall admits who is the nicest athlete he has ever met.
– There are some. I usually say that Peter Forsberg has always been honest, nice, wise and not sly. He could be angry and tough, but still have respect for those who asked the questions. “Henke” Lundqvist is another such. There you have two. But Peter Forsberg, I usually say, is someone who is always incredibly easy and good to deal with, without being mean for that matter. There are many, many others, like all handball players, but if we want to rise to the level of star status, then Peter Forsberg, he says in an interview with Sportbibeln.
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Ekwall also reveals who is the most unpleasant person he has had to deal with. And then we get to go outside Sweden’s national borders.
– The fact is that it is a coach. Howard Wilkinson, who was manager of Leeds when Tomas Brolin was there. He was a fucking pig, always. Damn mean and stuff. He is, easily. There is no one worse, says Patrick in the interview.
Have you and Brolin talked about Wilkinson?
– Yes, we have done that. Brolin and I are friends today, so we definitely did. He was special. So not Brolin, haha, but Wilkinson in particular.
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