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Rose-Marie Jonsson, 82, risked not being able to go to hockey this season.
Then the Linköpings supporters came to the rescue.
– I have told them how grateful I am, says Rose-Marie to P4 Östergötland.
82-year-old Rose-Marie Jonsson is a big fan of Linköping HC. It all started when she and her family moved to Linköping in 2002, to a residential area where many hockey players lived. When the goalkeeper Rastislav Stana In 2006 moved to the area, they talked to him and became curious about hockey.
Linköping tattoo(!)
Since then, Rose-Marie and the family have been totally hockey crazy. It is mainly about herself, the daughter Marie and the grandchild Zabina. Today, the supportership has lasted for several years and the family usually attends several matches per season.
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Rose-Marie also has a tattoo of the LHC logo – on her neck! Jonsson got it when she got an LHC tattoo as a 70th birthday present.
– I have only received positive reactions. In the beginning, my sons thought “no but mom, you can’t go with any tattoo”. But I did it and I’m proud of it. And no one has said anything negative to me, says Rose-Marie to P4 Östergötland.
Rose-Marie’s joy
With her LHC tattoo, Rose-Marie was noticed in the local newspaper Östgöta Correspondenten. Then the 82-year-old told me that she would probably have a hard time affording to go to hockey this season, as a pensioner and with society’s rising prices. Then the LHC supporter stepped Hampus Evald into the documents.
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In a Facebook post in a supporter group on the platform, he urged all common LHC supporters to collect money for two annual passes for Rose-Marie. Something they fixed in no time.
– Yes, it was the supporters there who collected money. His name was Hampus, and they set about collecting money for this then. So I got two season spots, and I have spoken about it to them several times when I met them in the arena, how grateful I am for this, says Rose-Marie.
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