Biography
Friends and Family
Adee Phelan
[Friend]
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Lewis Hamilton
[Friend]
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Bodil Ljungberg
[Mother]
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Filip Ljungberg
[Brother]
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Roy Ljungberg
[Father]
Pets
Golden Retriever
Dog
[ 2002 - present]
Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 I like, like today, meeting people with completely different interests than most footballers. You learn a lot of new stuff and listen to their view of life.
"I love London. But if I get married, perhaps my wife doesn`t want to live here but on the country-side."
Marriage
(City Living & Marriage)
[2008]
"I was examined for cancer and HIV and anything you can think of. It was worrying" Freddie says concerning his lymphatic glands. "The doctors believed it was due to my tattoes. The glands were lead poisoned."
Life
(Ljungberg on his health)
[2008]
"When I quit (playng football) I`m going to miss the adrenaline kick from the big games. I might have to go parachuting or something, but I`ve got to find it somewhere."
Life
(Retirement)
[2008]
I`m planning to travel for one year first. I want to see the barrier reef, go on a safari, go snowboarding for a month..."
Life
(Plans after Retirement)
[2008]
Of course it is more fun to have the number 8 than number 34. In addition, it was Ian Wrights old number so it was of course an honour.
Sports
(On choosing a jersey number)
[2008]
You get used to [being the centre of attention and photographed], he laughs, there’s been a lot through the years, like with Calvin Klein. In the beginning it was unfamiliar. Essentially I don’t like being photographed, not even in normal circumstances. When you were younger there was a few that always wanted to be in the pictures, I wasn’t that type at all. But it becomes a routine.
OTHER
(Center of Attention)
[2008]
Normally I`m a jeans man, but I love suits too - Mastermind and Custume National make good ones. My favourite shop is Vertice on South Morton Street, London. And for underwear, it has to be Calvin Klein.
OTHER
(Ljungberg on Clothes)
[2005]
"If you have 11 individual players who only thinks for themselves you don´t have a good team."
Sports
(Teams)
[2000]
I think a play a lot better in the middle than on the sides because I´ve never played there before I came to Arsenal.
Sports
(Positions)
[2000]
When I first got here, I felt great, I had a couple of injures and I never
had the chance to settle down. I had played for 18 months on a row and it´s normal that the body feels tired.
(Entering the Premiership)
[2000]
"Football is my only sport right now, but
I was interested in handball a while."
Sports
(Handball)
[1998]
"To scored against Man United, created a connection between me and Arsenals fans."
Sports
(Arsenal Fans)
[1998]
" I have always enjoyed big games. There`s a special buzz round them. The pressure is bigger, and that`s why you play football. You raise your game."
Sports
(Big Games)
first, I think everybody is entitled to their opinion, and for me some gay people have a great sense of fashion and they`re articulate, so in that sense I really think it`s flattering that people think I`m gay. Some people might be embarrassed about it, but it really doesn`t bother me. My girlfriend knows what I am!
Sex
(Ljungberg on his sexuality)
I like to mix different styles. For me that`s fashion- when you can mix different stuff that maybe you don`t think fits together."
OTHER
(Fashion: Mixing)
I love the Scandinavian Furniture," he says, "I just saw too much of it as a kid"
Art
(Furniture)
"I am not gay," he tells me wearily. "But gay men can be very fashionable, so maybe it`s a compliment."
Sex
(Gay?)
"My game is all about speed and dribble, so I`ll always be a target, but sometimes I do get a little bit of stick when I buy something new, and sometimes the other players will laugh at what I`m wearing when I turn up in the dressing room, but then, at the end of training, they come up to me and say quietly, `Hey, Freddie! Where did you get that jacket?`"
Sports
(Soccer and Fashion)
I feel that girls are going to make me lose my concentration before a game," he laughs. "I want to keep the feeling in my feet. It sort of disappears if you have sex before a match. I`ve tried it and my feet felt like concrete when I was supposed to kick the ball," he says
(Sex Before Games)
Trivia
At 18 he went to university to study information technology and economics but found it tough to combine an academic timetable with the physically demanding commitments of professional football.
At school he was nicknamed "Sid", after Sid Vicious.
(dailymail.co.uk)
Freddie is particularly fond of the fashionable Wellington Club and Zuma, the modish Knightsbridge honeypot where London`s rich Eurotrash set gorge on blackened cod and tempura.
(dailymail.co.uk)
His favorite color is red
If he wasn´t a footballpayer, he would have been a combat pilot, thus the nickname Biggles.
Loves Salt Liquorice, Chocolate Mousse, and Tesco Custard filled donuts.
Shaved his head because children at school were getting in trouble for emulating his crazy hair styles
Since moving to London he`s seen Mamma Mia! three times, Miss Saigon and Saturday Night Fever. Saturday Night Fever is his favourite.
(dailymail.co.uk)
Studied Social and Natural Science at secondary school in Halmstad.
Wears Calvin Klein Boxer-Briefs
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