Gösta Sandberg

Gösta Sandberg
Gösta Sandberg
	Gösta Sandberg in 1964
Born	Gösta Sandberg; 6 August 1932; Knivsta, Sweden
Died	27 April 2006 (aged 73); Stockholm, Sweden
Position(s)
Position(s)	Striker
Youth career
Senior career*
Years	Team
0000–1950	Knivsta IK
1951–1966	Djurgårdens IF
National team
	Sweden B
1951–1961	Sweden
Teams managed
1959–1961	IF Brommapojkarna
1967–1971	Djurgårdens IF
1972–1978	IF Brommapojkarna
1979	Djurgårdens IF
Honours
Representing Sweden
Men's Football
Olympic Games
	* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only
Played for	Djurgårdens IF
National team	Sweden
Playing career	1957–1963

Sandberg (left) with Hans Mild at the 1961 World Ice Hockey Championships.

The Sweden national football team in 1961 with this players – from the left, standing: Bengt "Fölet" Berndtsson, Torbjörn Jonsson, Åke "Bajdoff" Johansson, Agne Simonsson, Rune Börjesson and Lennart Backman; crouched: Olle "Lappen" Hellström, Orvar Bergmark, Bengt "Zamora" Nyholm, Lennart Wing and Gösta "Knivsta" Sandberg.

Gösta "Knivsta" Sandberg (6 August 1932 – 27 April 2006) was a Swedish football, ice hockey, and bandy player in Djurgårdens IF. In 1956 he received the Guldbollen, and he was voted "Djurgårdare of the century" in 1991. His nickname derives from the town he was born and grew up in, Knivsta. He was capped 52 times for the national team in football, eight times in hockey, and three times in bandy.

"Knivsta" died on his way home from the derby between the archrivals AIK and Djurgårdens IF on 27 April 2006.^[3]

Honours[]

Ice Hockey[]

Winter Olympics bronze medal: 1952^[4]

Football[]

Djurgårdens IF

Allsvenskan (4): 1954–55, 1959, 1964, 1966^[5]
Division 2 Svealand: 1961

Individual

Guldbollen: 1956

References[]

^ Frantz, Alf; Glanell, Tomas; Persson, Gunnar, eds. (2008). Det svenska fotbollslandslaget 1908–2008 [The Swedish National Football Team 1908–2008] (in Swedish). Vällingby: CA Strömberg AB. ISBN 978-91-86184-69-8.
^ "Sweden national football team stats". passagen.se (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 2001-06-09.
^ http://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/fotboll/article10810066.ab^{[bare URL]}
^ "Gösta Sandberg". Olympedia. Retrieved 5 November 2021.
^ http://www.difarkivet.se/dif_sm_guld_seniorer.pdf

[1] Frantz, Alf; Glanell, Tomas; Persson, Gunnar, eds. (2008). Det svenska fotbollslandslaget 1908–2008 [The Swedish National Football Team 1908–2008] (in Swedish). Vällingby: CA Strömberg AB. ISBN 978-91-86184-69-8.

[2] "Sweden national football team stats". passagen.se (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 2001-06-09.

[3] ttp://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/fotboll/article10810066.ab^{[bare URL]}

[4] "Gösta Sandberg". Olympedia. Retrieved 5 November 2021.

[5] ttp://www.difarkivet.se/dif_sm_guld_seniorer.pdf

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