Stefan Åsberg played as a youth for S/G Hockey in Gävle.
The career ended when an SVT profile was launched by Niklas Wikegård.
—His father sent old Arnie to tell me I was gone, he says on his podcast Snit’s Inside Backwards.
As a youth, Stefan Osberg was classified as a soccer and ice hockey player.
He says this himself has contributed to him becoming a competitive person.
Ice hockey career ended already at the age of 15 at home in Gavle.
– My knee hurts. I never really started, says Stefan Osberg.
“the foot he kicked”
In connection with that, he got a new coach at S/G Hockey Club.
It was Brinas’ former full-back Niklas Wikigaard who also had to resign early with a knee injury.
– I was part of our junior season when we got this new coach, Niklas Wikigaard. We were his first B Juniors team. I became the first player to shoot him. It wasn’t my fault he took me away, says Stefan Osberg, but he sent his old dad, Arnie, to tell me I was gone.
Successful journalist at SVT
With successful coaching jobs in Väsby, Boden, Djurgården and Malmö, Niklas Wikegård is now a leading SHL expert in C More.
The 54-year-old Stefan Osberg is best known as SVT’s foreign correspondent in the United States and the Middle East.
S/G Hockey or S/G 83 was a fusion between Strömsbro and Gävle GIK and ranked 4th and 3rd in allsvenskan in 1985 and 1986 respectively.
The club then became Team Gävle, who finished ninth in Allsvenskan in 1993.