Arne Larsson (footballer, born 1934)
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Born | Arne Larsson 30 December 1934 Stockholm, Sweden | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 26 April 1994[1] | (aged 59)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Arne Larsson (30 December 1934 – 26 April 1994) was a Swedish football and bandy player, known for representing Hammarby IF in both sports. He won three caps for the Sweden national football team.
Athletic career[]
Football[]
Club career[]
Larsson was born in Stockholm and started to play football with local club Mälarhöjdens IK in the Swedish lower divisions.[2]
In 1957, at age 23, Larsson joined Hammarby IF in Division 2. He won a promotion to Allsvenskan in his first season with the club.[3]
He was known as tall, elegant and reliable centre-back or full-back.[4][5] Larsson played six seasons for Hammarby in Allsvenskan, Sweden's top tier, and made a total of 138 league appearances for the club, before retiring in 1965.[6][7]
International career[]
Between 1959 and 1960, Larsson won three caps for the Swedish national team; playing in two friendlies against Finland and one against Hungary.[2][1][8][9]
Bandy[]
Larsson also played bandy for Hammarby IF for one season in 1959–60.[10]
Personal life[]
Long after has his playing career had ended, in the beginning of the 1990s, Arne Larsson was the chairman of the football section of Hammarby.[11][12]
References[]
- ^ a b "Arne Larsson". Worldfootball.net. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
- ^ a b "Landslagsdatabasen: Arne Larsson" (in Swedish). Swedish Football Association. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
- ^ "1958" (in Swedish). HIF Historia. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
- ^ "1962: Arne Larsson, Hammarby IF" (in Swedish). HIF Historia. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
- ^ "1964" (in Swedish). HIF Historia. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
- ^ "Hammarby IF:s historia" (in Swedish). HIF Historia. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
- ^ "Larsson, Arne". National Football Teams. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
- ^ "Sveriges landslagsmän 1908-2019" (PDF) (in Swedish). Swedish Football Association. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
- ^ "National football team player Arne Larsson". EU Football Stats. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
- ^ "1960" (in Swedish). HIF Historia. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
- ^ "HIF:s fotboll har mist en profil" (in Swedish). HIF Historia. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
- ^ "Strandh åter" (in Swedish). Dagens Nyheter. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
External links[]
- Arne Larsson at National-Football-Teams.com
- Sweden stats at Eu-Football
- 1934 births
- 1994 deaths
- Association football defenders
- Swedish footballers
- Swedish bandy players
- People from Stockholm
- Sportspeople from Stockholm
- Hammarby Fotboll players
- Allsvenskan players
- Hammarby IF Bandy players
- Sweden international footballers
- Hammarby Fotboll directors and chairmen