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Glenn Hysén is one of Swedish football’s biggest profiles.
Now the football icon opens up about the anxiety that is starting to creep closer for the 63-year-old.
– My biggest fear is being alone, he says in an interview with the newspaper Hem & Hyra.
There are few Swedish footballers who Glenn Hysen, both in terms of personality and what was accomplished on the field. The outspoken centre-back still has cult status in IFK Göteborg, the team he started playing for as a youngster in 1978.
Iconic Glenn
Hysén would achieve enormous success with “Blåvitt” in the 80s and write Swedish sports history. Together they won 3 SM golds and 2 cup golds, but above all they shocked the whole of Europe by winning the prestigious Uefa Cup twice in 1982 and 1987.
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To this day, Hysén considers that double to be among the greatest achievements he has achieved in his lifetime. Then the Swedish legend also won the English league with the big club Liverpool and became the first Swede in history to be awarded six wasps by the Express, after his super match against England at Wembley in 1988.
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Hysén’s anxiety
Glenn Hysén will forever be remembered for his efforts for Swedish football and besides, it’s just the record holder Zlatan Ibrahimovic who won more golden balls than the Gothenburger. After his playing career, we mostly got to see the football icon as a good old man in several different television contexts and he himself admits that this is how most people look at him when they arrive in town.
– But they are happy, so what the hell does it matter that I played football? On the contrary, I’m proud that it’s an ordinary person they like. Grateful that people still think it’s worth taking a picture, he says in a long interview with the newspaper Hem & Hyra.
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After many years of odd jobs as an expert commentator, football coach, ambassador for betting companies and various television assignments, Hysén has also spent longer periods of time unemployed and forced to live on unemployment benefits to cope with everyday life. It was a very useful experience for the former great player.
– It made me realize what a fantasy world you live in, without realizing how many people have a hell. You should be damn happy about how you are, he says in the interview.
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Today, Glenn Hysén is 63 years old and thoughts inevitably turn to the last chapter of life and the legend opens up about the fact that there is an anxiety before the final stage of life.
– My biggest fear is being alone, not having anyone to talk to. When you’re a little older, you realize that you have to get better at keeping in touch with your old friends. In order not to end up there, he tells the newspaper.
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