After the goal against Belarus in 2002, Tommy Salo Landes was knocked down by captain Mats Sunden.
20 years later, the goalkeeper still thinks it unnecessary and insensitive.
– It was painful then and I still remember it, he says.
TV footage has been around for two decades now.
three crowns He played amazingly in the Olympic group stage and, among other things, beat Canada 5-2, but in the quarter-finals against the former Belarus (now Belarus). It was 3-3 with two minutes left when Vladimir Kubat grabbed a shot from the middle. Tommy Salo He misjudges the trajectory of the disc, so he bounces straight and flaps on his back and rolls toward goal.
The match ends 4-3 and the scoreboard has been haunting Salo ever since.
– We played hockey well until then. But we didn’t get to the same level, we hacked everything. We played at eleven in the morning and brains never woke up. Tommy Salo says we were in slow motion today.
“He was trying to be funny”
In “Salo – My Life Behind the Mask”, which will be released in the next few days, the goalkeeper talks about behind the scenes after the exodus. All the goalkeeper needs is rest, so a few words failed mats sunden All wrong.
“He said to me ‘What do you think, ah I was just kidding…’ He was still the captain and I was surprised by what he said. It didn’t feel like it was something I was just still about and there was nothing funny about it anyway,” Salo wrote in the autobiography.
– He tried to be a little funny, but something went wrong in that case. At least I think so. You weren’t very happy after that match, and neither of us were, so the girl got it wrong, says Salo.
Did you sort it then?
– It wasn’t weird, but it wasn’t fun to click after a match like that.
Did he go on record that it was Tre Kronor captain and not some idiot in the stands who made fun of you?
– yes. I didn’t think he was fit at the time.
