How Carl Hagelin is giving back to his Swedish hometown of Nykvarn

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Washington Capitals ahead Carl Hagelin is entering into the development enterprise in his hometown of Nykvarn, Sweden. Swedish newspaper Länstidningen is reporting that he’s within the technique of constructing a padel middle.
This may want some clarification.

Initially, padel? It’s a racket sport initially from Mexico, however as we speak hottest in Spain – and Sweden. Sort of a combination between tennis and squash, it’s performed on a court docket with glass partitions. Through the pandemic 12 months, it has turn out to be immensely fashionable in Sweden. In every single place, in each little city, there’s now a padel middle.
Picture: Artur Kornakov on Unsplash
And I occur to reside in Nykvarn, just some hundred yards from the place Hagelin needs to develop his new sporting middle. This can be a very small city, simply outdoors of Stockholm the place simply over 11,000 folks reside. We now have a soccer subject and simply this 12 months, they completed an indoor sports activities middle primarily constructed for floorball.
The venture can be spearheaded by Carl and his older brother Bobbie and pal Joakim Sjödell-Wiklander. They’re forming the corporate “Bröderna Hagelin Make investments” (Translation: “The Hagelin Brothers Make investments”) and have signed an settlement of intent, which town council authorised simply this week.
“It’s very encouraging to see the brothers, with their big curiosity in sports activities, need to spend money on their very own neighborhood,” Chairman of town council Gunilla Lindstedt stated to Länstidningen.
Talking to LT’s Mathias Jonsson on Friday, Hagelin talked about his love for his hometown.
“My primary precedence is to work with town of Nykvarn, town I grew up in and town I can be residing in once I transfer again residence,” Carl stated including “I need to give one thing again. I believe Nykvarn has executed a very good job, making investments round sports activities. When this chance arose, I received on board instantly.”
The plans started again when Hagelin introduced again the Stanley Cup to Nykvarn, again within the spring of 2016. Metropolis council chairman Gunilla Lindstedt confirms the discuss has been occurring for a while.

“The administration has mentioned this with the Hagelin brothers for an extended time frame. Now we’re speaking in regards to the space round Furuborg, the place we would like completely different sorts of sports activities facilities. We love the curiosity from non-public actors, town doesn’t should do all of it by itself.”
Whereas padel is the brand new folks sport in Sweden, the trio of buyers all have a background in hockey. Carl clearly had the most effective profession, however his his brother Bobbie and their pal Joakim have all performed. At this level, Nykvarn doesn’t have a hockey rink in any respect. When the climate is chilly sufficient – like this week, we had -5.8 F, town makes use of the gravel soccer fields at a few playgrounds to make ice ponds. Carl Hagelin plans to alter that.
“It could be enjoyable to construct an indoor rink too,” Hagelin stated. “Nykvarn will want one sooner or later. There’s a whole lot of prospects and it’s enjoyable being part of making the world develop and maintain being part of it once I get again residence.”

Headline photograph: Elizabeth Kong/RMNB

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