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Peter “Foppa” Forsberg.
Or?
Now the former hockey player reveals his new nickname.
Peter Forsberg, 50, has one of the most famous nicknames of all Swedish athletes of all time. “Foppa”. That nickname was given to Forsberg by the media, and since then it has always stuck throughout his career. A career that, among other things, took him to the NHL, and games in clubs such as the Colorado Avalanche, Philadelphia Flyers and Nashville Predators.
Forsberg’s new life
“Foppa” has also played in Modo at home in Sweden. He grew up in Örnsköldsvik, where Modo has a house. Peter Forsberg is one of the greatest and best Swedish hockey players of all time. Some tend to take it a step further and hail him as one of the NHL’s and the world’s greatest hockey players ever.
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Today, Forsberg no longer lives in his hometown Ö-vik. Five years ago, the hockey legend moved to Zug in Switzerland, where he now lives with his three children Lennox, Lily and Diego. Peter trains with the association Zug’s veterans, which he has been doing for two years now. The recently turned 50-year-old hopes to make his season debut soon, when his body holds…
Secret nickname
In Switzerland, Foppa is not recognized in the same way as in Sweden and in the NHL cities, where he is not called Foppa. In North America, Forsberg has been nicknamed “Peter the Great”. At home in Örnsköldsvik, only short and sweet “Peter” applies. But in an interview, Foppa has revealed that there is yet another nickname to refer to him by.
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His closest friends got tired of using the same nickname that the majority of Swedes do, and came up with their own. “The flop”.
– Yes it is true. Those closest to me were reluctant to say Foppa, because everyone else was saying it, and then it became an abro wink and “Floop”. I say Floop sometimes, when I’m talking about myself in the third person, but it doesn’t happen that often, says “Floop” to Sportbladet.
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