Bertil Nordahl
![]() Bertil Nordahl | |||||||||||||
Personal information | |||||||||||||
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Full name | Karl Bertil Emanuel Nordahl | ||||||||||||
Date of birth | 26 July 1917 | ||||||||||||
Place of birth | Hörnefors, Sweden | ||||||||||||
Date of death | 1 December 1998 | (aged 81)||||||||||||
Place of death | Degerfors, Sweden | ||||||||||||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||
–1948 | Degerfors IF | ||||||||||||
1948–1951 | Atalanta B.C. | 76 | (0) | ||||||||||
1951– | Degerfors IF | ||||||||||||
National team | |||||||||||||
1945–1948 | Sweden[1] | 15 | (0) | ||||||||||
Teams managed | |||||||||||||
1952–1953 | Örebro SK | ||||||||||||
1953–1955 | IK Brage | ||||||||||||
Honours
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
Bertil Nordahl (26 July 1917 – 1 December 1998) was a Swedish football player and manager who played as a midfielder.
He played for Degerfors IF and Atalanta B.C..[2] He won the gold medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics, along with his brothers Knut and Gunnar Nordahl.[3]
After the Olympics, he and Gunnar transferred to Italy and, due to being in a professional football league while the Swedish football was all amateur, they were not called to the 1950 FIFA World Cup.[4]
He was capped 15 times for the Sweden national football team.
After his playing career, he coached Örebro SK and IK Brage.[5]
References[]
- ^ "Sweden national football team stats". passagen.se (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 2012-06-06.
- ^ http://www.enciclopediadelcalcio.com/NordhalB.html[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Bertil Nordahl". Olympedia. Retrieved 13 October 2021.
- ^ "Nordahl: 'Il pompiere d'oro', André Melsohn Dayan, Trivela.com Archived 2009-06-15 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ http://www.ikbrage.se/index.php?newspage=63&open=3
External links[]
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Bertil Nordahl". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17.
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Categories:
- 1917 births
- 1998 deaths
- Swedish footballers
- Sweden international footballers
- Swedish expatriate footballers
- Olympic footballers of Sweden
- Olympic gold medalists for Sweden
- Footballers at the 1948 Summer Olympics
- Degerfors IF players
- Atalanta B.C. players
- Allsvenskan players
- Serie A players
- Expatriate footballers in Italy
- Swedish football managers
- Örebro SK managers
- IK Brage managers
- Olympic medalists in football
- Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics
- Association football midfielders