Tommy Engstrand


Tommy Engstrand 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".

Biography

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