#2 Klas Ingesson
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He is not a household name like, say, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, but this was a man who helped Sweden finish third in the 1994 World Cup, playing a major role in the team’s run. Someone who had such quality should have had played for the elite clubs.
Unfortunately, however, Klas mainly featured for clubs like PSV Eindhoven, Bair, Lecce and so on. Some English fans remember him for his time at Sheffield Wednesday, a club where he spent two years from 1994 to 1996.
He retired in 2001 and came back to football in 2013 as the manager of IF Elfsborg. In the space in between, he spent his time being a lumberjack. Apparently, it was his “dream” since childhood to be a lumberjack.
Also, the health benefits from cutting wood prompted him to keep doing it as it kept him in shape. The former Sweden international, however, couldn’t live long enough as he lost his battle to cancer on 29 October, 2014.
Rest in peace, Klas.
