Tommy Engstrand

Tommy Engstrand (born 30 September 1939)[1] is a former Swedish sports commentator, but he has also hosted a few other television shows of general entertainment style, like "Razzel" and "Zick-Zack".[1]

Tommy Engstrand

Biography

He provided commentary on the FIFA World Cup 1978 final between Argentina and the Netherlands (3-1 after extra-time) for the only Swedish television company at that time, Sveriges Radio. He and Björn Borg have become personal friends.[2] Within sports, his radio commentary of the last minutes of the World-Cup qualifier between West Germany and Portugal on 16 October 1985, which ended with a single goal win for Portugal, is a bit of Swedish radio history, because the result meant that Portugal went ahead for the FIFA World Cup 1986 instead of Sweden.[3] With two minutes left, he declared whilst close to crying "Portugal is leading 1-0, and I can't give you any hope".[1] Sweden had earlier that day taken the lead by 1-0 against Czechoslovakia away, but lost 1-2;[4] however, the hope was still alive, if only West Germany (that by this time had not lost any such game, and was playing at home) just took a single point, that would have been enough; but West Germany didn't. The event became known as "Den svarta onsdagen" in Sweden ("The black Wednesday").[5]

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-09-29. Retrieved 2011-12-02.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. "Därför nobbar Björn Borg Skavlan".
  3. Radio, Sveriges. "DOKUMENT: Den Svarta Onsdagen - VM-kvalet 1985 - Radiosporten". Radio Sveriges.
  4. "Kvalspecial: De stora svenska ödesmatcherna - Fotboll". Radio Sveriges.
  5. "DOKUMENT: Den Svarta Onsdagen - VM-kvalet 1985 - Radiosporten". Radio Sveriges.
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