Ice hockey legend Teemu Selänne, who lives in California, actively follows domestic issues and also takes a stand on them.
Teemu Selänne speaks directly about social issues. ATTE KAJOVA
A hockey legend Teemu Selänne has been enjoying lately Sliver-wife and Veera-with daughter from summer in Finland. He says that he participated in the filming of the Top Gear Suomi program, which has been going on forever. However, the most important project is related to my daughter’s tennis hobby in her spare time.
– I don’t go to Veera a couple of times a day for tennis training, I’m such a tennis yo-yo, he jokes at the Bermuda tournament at the Kalastajatorpa Tennis Club.
A proud father coaches his daughter towards her tennis dream.
– Veera wants to become a professional. He has a technique coach separately, maybe my gift is the mental side, which is required to be an athlete.
Selänne says her biggest lesson works for almost everyone: no bad days.
– It is mental strength not to let excuses influence you. Even if you sleep badly or eat badly, you can pull the day close to the good. We are all wonderful people when we have a good day. How good you are when you’re having a bad day – that’s what separates superstars and achievers.
– My thing is the level of demand: every day you give what you can. But yes, that tennis has to be fun, a pleasure. You have to fall in love with training.
“Twitter is a substitute for a psychiatrist”
Teemu Selänne has not been afraid to use his opportunities to influence the social debate. He has often taken a stand on social media on the nation’s talking points and political issues.
Statements made on Twitter have sometimes also made Selänte’s head hurt.
– Many have asked why you go along with such shit? I don’t see it that way. I have lived in many countries and I want to bring my own point of view to the soup, says Teemu Selänne.
– For some, Twitter is a substitute for a psychiatrist. They will feel good when they can tilt properly. It has to be taken in the right way. I’ve been called a jerk and a jerk. I say things out loud that others only think. I’m interested in Finnish affairs. I want us to have better things.
Teemu Selänne wants to encourage the able-bodied unemployed to work. ATTE KAJOVA
“Finland first”
For the hockey legend, it is important that Finland can manage financially on its own and that the nation can flourish.
– When I follow politics, I am of the opinion that Finland needs to be fixed first, and then attention should be paid elsewhere. I have no sympathy for debt money being used to finance other countries. Finland first, he downloads.
He has looked at the new government with approving eyes.
– Many of the same ideas that I cherish, such as entrepreneurship. We need to get the able-bodied unemployed to work. The incentive must be such that it is worth it. It’s such a bomb when you don’t have to go to work because you get the same amount of money anyway. It causes a snowball avalanche, you stay at home, you get mental health problems, and there is no meaning in life. It’s a social bomb, he says.
– I would like people to be hardworking. I have no sympathy for lazy people. I am the first to help those who need it. But then there are these intervening times. Not everyone finds a job they love, but something has to be done. There are many good things in the new government. I’ll be the first to criticize it if it doesn’t work, but it’s definitely on the right track.