"We Are All the Winners" is a song mixing lyrics in English and Swedish. Written by

Nick Borgen Nils Thore "Nick" Borgen (born 5 January 1952 in Andenes, Nordland, is a Norwegian–Swedish musician, singer and writer. Life and career He made the songs " We Are All the Winners" and " Den glider in". Between 1990 and 2003, he had his o ...

, it was and performed by himself at

Melodifestivalen 1993 Sweden was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 1993 with the song "Eloise", composed by Lasse Holm, with lyrics by Gert Lengstrand, and performed by the dansband Arvingarna. The Swedish participating broadcaster, (SVT), selected its ent ...

, where it ended up second behind

Arvingarna Arvingarna is a Swedish dansband formed in Gothenburg in 1989. The group consists of Casper Janebrink (vocals and bass guitar), Lars Larsson (guitars, vocals and keyboards), Kim Carlsson (vocals and guitars) and Tommy Carlsson (drums and vocals). ...

's Eloise. With the song, however, Nick Borgen scored a huge 1993 hit in Sweden, peaking at 17th position at the Swedish singles chart, and staying at Svensktoppen for 23 weeks between 11 April-11 September 1993, topping the chart during the first 14 weeks. During the original performance,

Erica Johansson Erica Johansson (born February 5, 1974) is a Swedish former athlete who specialized in the long jump. She is the 1992 World Junior Champion, the 1993 European Junior Champion, and the 2000 European Indoor Champion. She also competed at the 2000 ...

Frida Johansson Frida Svensson (born Johansson on 5 January 1970) is a Swedish track and field athlete who competed in the 400 metres hurdles. She represented Sweden at the IAAF World Championships in Athletics on three occasions, qualifying for the semifinals in ...

and Maria Akraka appeared as background singers, under the name "Team Sweden". While the song's lyrics describes a man standing outdoors playing the

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German language, German ', from '—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a Reed (mou ...

in all types of weather, the song has later become heavily associated with sports. In 1994, while keeping the title, he released a version in Norwegian, as his native Norway had qualified for the FIFA World Cup. He sang it together with

Jan Åge Fjørtoft Jan Åge Fjørtoft (born 10 January 1967) is a Norwegian former professional footballer. A powerful centre forward with goalscoring ability, he played professionally in Norway, Austria, England and Germany. In total, he scored 308 goals in 614 ga ...

.We Are All The Winners - Nick Borgen & Jan Åge Fjørtoft
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