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Stefan Edberg

Stefan Edberg

Stefan Bengt Edberg is a former World No. 1 professional tennis player (in both singles and doubles) from Sweden. A major proponent of the serve-and-volley style of tennis, he won six Grand Slam singles titles and three Grand Slam men's doubles titles.

 
 
Mats Wilander

Mats Wilander

Mats Wilander is a former World No. 1 tennis player from Sweden. From 1982 through 1988, he won seven Grand Slam singles titles (three at the French Open, three at the Australian Open, and one at the US Open), and one Grand Slam men's doubles title. He won three of the four Grand Slam singles events in 1988 and finished that year ranked World No. 1. Although he never won the singles title at Wimbledon, Wilander twice won the Australian Open when that tournament was still played on grass courts.

 
 
Sven-Göran Eriksson

Sven-Göran Eriksson

Sven-Göran Eriksson (born 5 February 1948), in Sweden commonly referred to just by his nickname Svennis, is a Swedish football manager. He is the current director of football for Notts County. Eriksson was a Swedish football player and was forced to retire early from an unremarkable playing career in the Swedish lower leagues, due to injury in 1975.

 
 
Henrik Larsson

Henrik Larsson

Henrik Edward "Henke" Larsson MBE is a professional association football player currently playing for Helsingborg. Larsson won four titles in seven years with Celtic before moving to FC Barcelona, where he won two titles and the Champions League. After his contract had expired at Barcelona, Larsson returned to his home town club of Helsingborg, and joined Manchester United on a brief loan spell between January and March 2007.

 
 
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Magnus Norman

Magnus Norman (born 30 May 1976 in Filipstad) is a retired Swedish professional tennis player who is best known for being the runner up at the French Open in 2000 and for briefly being ranked World Number 2. He won 12 singles titles, including a Tennis Masters Series tournament in Rome, Italy. Norman reached his career high ranking of World Number 2 on 12 June 2000. This ranking resulted from his success during the first half of the year.

 
 
Zlatan Ibrahimović

Zlatan Ibrahimović

Zlatan Ibrahimović (born 3 October 1981) is a Swedish football player of Bosnian and Croatian parentage who plays for Spanish La Liga club Barcelona and the Swedish national team. As of February 2009, Ibrahimović, along with Kaká, were the highest salaried football players in the world with an annual pay of €9 million. Ibrahimović won the Capocannoniere on 31 May, 2009 with 25 domestic goals during the season.