After two decades in the NHL and as a player in the Toronto Maple Leafs, it was enough for one of the world’s all-time best hockey players. Yes, when the NHL celebrated 100 years, he entered the list of the 100 best players in the league – of all time. There he has good company from, among others Peter Forsberg and Nicklas Lidström.
We are of course talking about Mats ”Sudden” Sundin. The 196 centimeter long hockey legend went into “retirement” in September 2009.
That same fall, he married his love Josephine Johansson. The late summer wedding took place in Maria Magdalena Church on Södermalm, and among the guests were hockey colleagues such as both Foppa and Daniel Sedin.
In 2012, Foppa’s and Josephine’s daughter was born Bonnietwo years later the son arrived Nathanael and another two years later the little one arrived Julian.
The whole family lives in an almost 1000 square meter villa in Sweden’s most exclusive area Djursholm, or “Djursan” as it is called. Mats Sundin is often very private, but in an interview with Expressen in 2020, he told more about his everyday life.
– I drive our daughter to Manilla School (now Campus Manilla, ed. note) on Djurgården every morning and pick her up in the afternoon. It’s fun to be present and have the opportunity to do that, he said then.
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Campus Manilla is often referred to as an elite school, and according to Expressen, several celebrity children attend the exclusive school, located on the scenic Djurgården in Stockholm.
Parents you can run into when dropping off and picking up are, in addition to Mats Sundin and Josephine, among others Alex and Amanda Schulman, Carolina Neurath, Felix and Clara Herngren, Emilia de Poret and Isabel Adrian and the Swedish House Mafia star Steve Angello.
Isabel Adrian, who previously lived in the United States with her family, told in an interview with The Express about the benefits of school.
– The school uses the American model with a campus, where the children can stay at school and do activities before the parents pick them up at leisure. There is chess, ballet, yes lots of things, she told the newspaper.
Another so-called “elite school” is Carlssons in Östermalm. The princess is rumored to be there Madeleines children go – but there is a small catch with children going to school. There is one special person that “Madde” absolutely does not want to run into in the school corridors or in the school yard…
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Princess Estelle’s best friend – Mats Sundin’s daughter Bonnie
At school, Princess Estelle and Mats Sundin’s daughter Bonnie – who was born in the same year as Estelle – have become best friends, and fittingly enough, both Mats and Josephine are also close friends of the Crown Princess Victoria and prince Daniel.
In 2022, Mats Sundin, “Vickan” and Prince Daniel were seen with their respective children on one Veronica Maggio-concert at Borgholm’s Slottsruin, and Estelle and Bonnie have been seen together at the Stockholm Open tennis competition and in 2023 they ran Prince Daniel’s race during the PEP day in Hagaparken.
Recently, Mats Sundin was a guest on TV4 and Nyhetsmorgon, where the presenter Jenny Alversjö interviewed the hockey star due to the fact that he will soon release his autobiography Round trip – My story.
In the interview, Jenny asks what Mats is like as a father.
– It’s tough to live up to my parents, they were very good to me and my brothers. But we do our best, says Mats Sundin
When asked “Are you a funny dad?” so Mats answered:
– I try to be that anyway, said Mats Sundin in the interview – and then all the children were actually invited to the morning sofa where they had to describe their father.
So nice!
Source: nyheter24.se
