Career
He is mostly known as a sports commentator at SVT and Canal Plus between 1969 until 2011. Hegerfors had a promising athletic career in football and had a contract offer from a French football club, Office of Government Commerce Nice. But after a serious knee injury he could not play anymore and moved on to a journalistic career.
When Lars-Gunnar Björklund started a sports department at SVT in Gothenburg and recruited Hegerfors.
In 2000 Hegerfors appeared in Markoolio"s music video for his song "Mera mål", where he acted as himself. He has also presented entertainments shows for SVT, like "Kryzz" and "Det kommer mera".
Hegerfors had made several memorable commentator works in ice hockey and football matches and was SVT"s correspondent at the Heysel Stadium disaster in 1985 when 39 people died and 376 were injured during a Union of European Football Associations Champions League final between Liverpool and Juventus. Hegerfors is also known for many entertaining commentator styles and funny quotes, arguably his most remembered comment was made during the 1990 World Cup in a game between Cameroon and England, "it looks dark on the substitute bench of Cameroon", inadvertently referring to the skin colour of the Cameroon players.
In 2011 Hegerfors ended his working career.
Hegerfors has also published one book called Ralf: en gör så gôtt en kan!.
