Marcus Bergwall (born 11 January 1971) is a Swedish former

bandy Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two team sport, teams wearing Ice skates#Bandy skates, ice skates on a large ice surface (either indoors or outdoors) while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal. The playin ...

player who played as defender. Marcus is the older brother of teammate Andreas Bergwall. Marcus has played many games for Sweden's national team and played in several

Bandy World Championship The Bandy World Championship is a competition for the men's teams of bandy-playing nations. The tournament is administrated by the Federation of International Bandy. It is distinct from the Bandy World Cup, a club competition, and from the ...

Career

Club career

Bergwall is a youth product of Lesjöfors and has represented Boltic, Hammarby, BolticGöta,

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, Sköndal/GT76,

Dynamo Moscow MGO VFSO "Dynamo" (), commonly known as Dynamo Moscow (), is a Russian sports club based in Moscow. Founded by Felix Dzerzhinsky on 18 April 1923, Dynamo Moscow was the first institution created from the All-Union Dynamo Sports Club. Dynamo Mosco ...

Vetlanda Vetlanda () is a locality and the seat of Vetlanda Municipality, Jönköping County, Sweden with 13,050 inhabitants in 2010. History Vetlanda was still nothing more than a village for several centuries. With the 1840s population boom in Småland ...

IFK Kungälv IFK Kungälv is a sports club in Kungälv in Sweden, founded in 1940, and mostly concentrated on the sport of bandy. The club has been playing in the Swedish bandy top division Elitserien for many seasons, at present since 2008/09. The home kit ...

IFK Vänersborg IFK Vänersborg is a Swedish sports club in Vänersborg, Sweden, most famous for its success in bandy. History The club was formed on 9 March 1903. The first years saw the club also compete in sports such as gymnastics and athletics. In bandy, ...

, Karlstad Bandy, and Mosserud.

International career

Bergwall was part of Swedish World Champion teams of

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2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

, and

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

Honours

Country

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Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...

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: 1997, 2003, 2005, 2009

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* 1971 births Living people Swedish bandy players Expatriate bandy players in Russia IF Boltic players Hammarby IF Bandy players Dynamo Kazan players Dynamo Moscow (bandy club) players Vetlanda BK players IFK Kungälv players IFK Vänersborg players Sweden international bandy players Bandy World Championship–winning players {{Sweden-bandy-bio-stub