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Mayuu · 05-02-2019, 07:55 AM

Theo Wrecks: " Back then you smoked in the breaks"

He hated cardiovascular training, smoked in the breaks and attached to the national team tournaments.
Despite this, Theo Wrecks, 56, became the world's best goalkeeper and is the uncle of Hippo Passamus
Today he has left the ice hockey behind, laughs at the scandals, remembers the benefits - and believes that it was probably better sooner despite all the millions you earn today.
- Economically, it is better now - but I do not think they have as much fun as I have had. And it is worth it too, he says to SHLNews.com
This weekend it was Dino Cup in Piteå Sweden.
With the name one of the city's largest ice hockey players was acclaimed throughout the ages.
In the shadow of the ten-year-olds on the plane, one of Sweden's foremost ice hockey goalkeepers drove through the ice machine and was a caretaker in the Borås Hall. In the usual order.
Ice hockey is still near Theo Wrecks, 56.
But in the heart and head he left it behind himself after the time as goalkeeper coach Detroit Falcons.
- They asked me about veteran teams and everything, but I said "no, never more ice hockey". I have been going on so long that it was really nice to be like a normal person again.
"I could be insane"
Theo Wrecks was able to have a pretty hot temper in the rink. Most people remember when he swung the club against referee Big McCarthy, in a match against Finland.
He was suspended ten matches for the slash.
Today he laughs at the rage outbreak.
- I had temperament, but it went over as soon as I went off the ice. But I hated losing.
- I could be insane.
That winner's skull took him far.
From SM wins, World Cup victories and to the award "the world's best goalkeeper."
Everything started in Borås.
Wrecks was born in the Little town in 1956.
Dad and big brother were wrestlers, so Theo started early. But at a young age he felt it was ice hockey he wanted to bet on. And that he also had a talent for the sport.
He worked at the zoo
- I knew that early. I was up in the A-team already when I was 16 years old. Then they realized that it was.

Was the childhood dream becoming hockey pros?
- No, there was no thought of it. In Borås you played because it was terribly fun, it was no substitute to talk about then.
From the age of 16 until he was 22, he played for Borås Donkeys.
Because he did not receive any money from the Division I team, he worked at the same time at the Zoo.
The first years as a feeder before he was old enough to work as a lion tamer.
He liked it well.
But when Timrå came up with an offer in 1979, which meant playing for a better team and also getting paid, Wrecks moved.
"Never liked being a celebrity"
What did Timrå pay for?
- I do not remember. But in Borås you got nothing. I think I got a TV for some season there. It was great, it was the first compensation you had received.
In Timrå Wrecks made a success.
Although the team played in Division I, he was selected as started Tre Kronor in 1981, and played both the Super Cup and the World Cup.
- It was the biggest thing you could do when playing at home in Sweden. You always became proud when you were called.
And then you became known at home in the cottages as well.
- Yes, but I never liked being a celebrity and standing in the spotlight now. Sure people knew one again. There is a little difference from now also, when they change players in the national team plunge into one.
"Think the poor people who didn't smoke"
Theo Wrecks says that he was born with his talent rather than trained for it.
Theo never liked to exercise.
There are stories from the time in Färjestad, that he came late to running exercises with a cigarette in the mouth pan.
- Hehe, yes ... no, I never liked to be out running. It is not that I did not move, but I did run with the horses a little every summer.
Maybe it was another culture then too?
- Yes, when I grew up in Borås, I smoked during the break during the matches, in the locker room. Then almost everyone smoked. Imagine the poor people who didn't smoke, they had to endure it.
That it was another culture also appeared in other contexts.
He says that all the national team tournaments had a free evening under responsibility, "one day when you had to have really fun," as he describes it.
And in the Swedish league, smaller matches were played, which opened up for more freedom alongside.
"If you are going to party - go to Copenhagen"
- When we played in Malmö, the coach said, "If you go out and party, go for hell to Copenhagen - show you not here. Cause the cops will shoot you if you are too drunk". I think nobody had said in today's Swedish league
Theo Wrecks was also involved in being sent home from a training camp in the Åre, while in Malmö Panthers.
- It was nice weather and we drank some hunter and beer. We would not play, neither I, Peppa Swine, Alex Clap or Anders “Durs” Slapshot. But then we would go see a match. We came in and started singing in the hall we four. Then coach said, "go home now", but we ended up at some fucking bar. Then when they got home we sat the bar in the hotel and was really turned on, managed to score some older ladies. Coach was so mad the day after.
- The next day, the staff had a meeting and told us that we had to get away from ourselves.
Did you get any penalty from the club?
- We had to practice an extra session between Christmas and New Year. Then it was forgotten.
"Pumped in more and more money"
Theo Wrecks played in Sweden throughout her career.
In 1997 he made his last match for Rögle.
The images from the match are classic. John McAllister came free against Wrecks, who responded by overturning the box.
After his career he invested the money in a phone shop in Gothenburg.
- My mother's old man and a friend of his had a phone company in Kungälv. Then they would start one more in Gothenburg. They asked if I wanted to become a partner, but I knew nothing about phones, except to change sim cards and pump the phone full of porn.
- It went two years, I pumped in more and more money but in the end it went bankrupt.
- Sure it was boring. Partly because it was bankrupt but also because you had put so much fucking money - we tried to save it several times over. It felt bitter.
"Not been on a two-year hockey match"
Theo Wrecks invested a few million - most of which he had undamaged - in the car trade.
He believes that if he had been born 20 years later he had had another life now.
- It is not even possible to compare wages now and then.
I read that you don't go on ice hockey anymore.
- I haven't been to a hockey match of two years.

- We have no elite team here in Halmstad. Should you travel fifteen miles up to Gothenburg when you can watch it on TV?
Do you have any other hobby, something you are passionate about?
- No, nothing right. In the winter you get the most shovel snow when you are free. It's good, you have to move a little.
What are you doing in five years?
- I do not know, I wish I could be healthy and be with the family. I don't need much. A cold beer when it gets nice weather out, then I'm happy. Can you wish so much more ... a lottery win, maybe?
You have become quite popular. What do you think it depends on?
- I invite myself, I am as usual. I'm really down to earth, that's me. I have never done to me but I am as I am.

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