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Thomas Ravelli is one of our great sporting heroes in Sweden.
He has won quite a few titles and awards over the years.
But you will be surprised when you hear what he did with all the cups and trophies.
So many unforgettable sporting moments as the legendary goalkeeper Thomas Ravelli has given Swedish football over the years. He made a breakthrough with Öster and then took the step to IFK Gothenburg and out into Europe with games against the world’s best in the Champions League.
Ravelli’s career
But above all, he is best known and remembered for what he did in the Swedish national team, and then of course we think of the iconic summer of achievements in 1994. When all of Sweden danced in a hot summer and the soccer heroes in the USA came home with a legendary World Cup bronze.
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Ravelli has won a lot during his football career in the form of eight SC golds (the most ever), the World Cup bronze medal, the Gold of Achievement, the Golden Ball, cup gold and also after his career with victories in the television programs “Master of Champions” and “Superstars”. There have simply been a lot of trophies and awards over the years for the goalkeeper icon.
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Glorious price
One of the finest awards came in 2001 when Thomas Ravelli got to step on stage during the Sports Gala to receive the “Sporting Moment of the Ages”, for his unforgettable penalty save against Romania in the World Cup quarter-finals in 1994. But when a journalist came to visit the next day, an unexpected secret up to the surface.
– I still enjoy it. I haven’t been very good at it before. To stop and just feel. But I’m trying to learn, a proud Ravelli told Expressen at the time.
– I want to take the opportunity to thank everyone. Thanks!
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In the middle of the living room table was the prestigious award from the Sports Gala, but it was also the only one visible in Ravelli’s home. All other awards and trophies from a long and successful career were completely missing.
– All the other prizes that Thomas has received are so ugly. This is really nice and can stand in front at least until you take the picture and leave here, said the wife Catherine Ravelli for the evening paper.
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Wife’s ban
The truth was that the wife had actually “forbidden” trophies from standing in front of them and instead banished them to the attic, the storage room or some closet.
– And I have bowed to the authority, Thomas Ravelli said humbly and with a smile.
So this was in 2001, the years have passed since then and it seems that the wife has changed her mind because in a picture from 2019, see the one below, you can clearly see that Ravelli has had to pick out several prizes in the home. It seems that the “Sports moment of the ages” trophy became the starting point for a trophy shelf of its own at home.
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