He has the best goals/games average of all time on the Swedish national team with 5.06 goals pr match.

His brother Pär Jilsén was also a handball player on the national team.

He was a part of the golden generation of the Swedish national team which started with the in the 1984 Summer Olympics.

At the end of his career he became a player-coach in Switzerland, Sweden and later Germany.

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