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.
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| Born | Arne Larsson 30 December 1934 Stockholm, Sweden | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 26 April 1994 (aged 59)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Athletic career edit
Football edit
Club career edit
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 edit
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 edit
Larsson also played bandy for Hammarby IF for one season in 1959–60.[10]
Personal life edit
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 edit
- ^ 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.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "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 edit
- Arne Larsson at National-Football-Teams.com
- Arne Larsson at EU-Football.info