Download - Sports in Sweden
![Page 1: Sports in Sweden](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022062522/58e69eef1a28ab5c0f8b6711/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Sports in SwedenI will show you some sports that are famous in Sweden, perhaps some
are more famous than others
By: Melker Jacobsson
![Page 2: Sports in Sweden](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022062522/58e69eef1a28ab5c0f8b6711/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
Floorball
This sport is popular especially in Sweden and other countries in the north,although it´s played in other parts of the world too.
![Page 3: Sports in Sweden](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022062522/58e69eef1a28ab5c0f8b6711/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Floorball: The Gents’ Trophies • Sweden is pretty succesfull in floorball, we won the World
Championship in 2002, 2004, 2006, 2012 and last year, 2014.• Maybe it´s beacuse we have a good team or it´s just that there are
not so many competitives.
![Page 4: Sports in Sweden](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022062522/58e69eef1a28ab5c0f8b6711/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
Floorball: Ladies• The Swedish women’s team is incredible.• If you just look at their trophies, you would be shocked:• They won 4 World Championship in a row and they aim for the 5th.
![Page 5: Sports in Sweden](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022062522/58e69eef1a28ab5c0f8b6711/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Skiing • Sweden’s national skiing team is in top form.• We have elite sports men and women in all sorts of branches of skiing
• But unfortunately not all Swedes can ski because you need snow (which we don’t have in the southern parts of our country).
![Page 6: Sports in Sweden](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022062522/58e69eef1a28ab5c0f8b6711/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
Famous skiers• Charlotte Kalla got 54 medals for cross-country skiing• Anja Person is a great down-hill skier.• And Tomas Wassberg who is an old legend together with Ingmar
Stenmark.
![Page 7: Sports in Sweden](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022062522/58e69eef1a28ab5c0f8b6711/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
Ice-hockey • Sweden has great players, and a great national team.• We have 65 players in NHL and that´s pretty impressive (NHL is the
best hockey league)
![Page 8: Sports in Sweden](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022062522/58e69eef1a28ab5c0f8b6711/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
Three famous players:• Peter Forsberg: some call him Sweden’s best player, some call him the
world’s best player
• ”The Sedins” (Sedinarna): they are twins and they play like gods together. They also play in the same team in the NHL, even in the same line up
(a hockey team usually has 4 line ups)
![Page 9: Sports in Sweden](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022062522/58e69eef1a28ab5c0f8b6711/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
Football • In Sweden football is very popular• We have a lot of footballers in Sweden, the majority of all sporting
kids play football
![Page 10: Sports in Sweden](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022062522/58e69eef1a28ab5c0f8b6711/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
Zlatan Ibrahimovic aka ”Ibracadabra”• His first famous club was Malmö FF (Sweden)• Then his international journey began:• Ajax• Juventus • Inter• Barcelona • Milan • And now he plays in ”Paris Saint German” aka PSG
![Page 11: Sports in Sweden](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022062522/58e69eef1a28ab5c0f8b6711/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
• Zlatan, a proud part in every Swede’s heart• He is the greatest player in Sweden by far and a top 5 player in the
world• As he said himself: ”There will never be anyone like Zlatan”