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He is one of Swedish television’s most prominent names.
But Fredrik Wikingsson is also extremely interested in sports.
Now the TV profile reveals his absolute favorite team – and why it was that way.
It was at the beginning of the 2000s that the duo “Filip & Fredrik” broke through on television. The presenters Fredrik Wikingsson and Philip Hammer has since then done a lot of different TV programs and has also become the years in the entertainment industry.
Philip & Fredrik
Although they have mostly worked in entertainment, both are extremely interested in sports and their very first television program was connected to the Summer Olympics in 2000. Where the duo were sidekicks to the legendary Christer Ulfbåge in the Olympic magazine “Hello Sydney” which was broadcast on SVT.
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Since then, they have also mixed in a lot of sport in the form of the competition program “Vem kan slå Filip & Fredrik” on Kanal 5 and the documentary film “Trevligt folk” where they follow Somalia’s newly formed bandy national team, which will play the World Cup for the very first time. So there is no doubt that they are interested in sports.
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His favorite team
But what you are really curious about is of course their favorite team. Filip is quite open that he likes Malmö FF, but Fredrik has been all the more secretive about which team his heart beats for.
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He was born in Vänsersborg, grew up in Sundsvall and now lives in Stockholm, but unexpectedly, his favorite team is still from a completely different city.
– I am a brown noser, Fredrik Wikingsson has admitted in an old interview with Aftonbladet.
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…and the hate team
There is also a very good reason why he is at Brynäs IF, which now plays in HockeyAllsvenskan after leaving the top league SHL.
– My grandmother held Brynäs, so I slipped into it during the 80s when Mats Näslund played there, he says in the interview.
Fredrik Wikingsson also has a hate team in Swedish sports that he hates more than all other teams.
– It is Djurgården that I hate, he himself wrote on Twitter.
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