Karl Bertil Emanuel Nordahl (26 July 1917 – 1 December 1998) was a Swedish footballer who played as a midfielder. He was also a football manager.
 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 | |||||||||||||
| International career | ||||||||||||||
| 1945–1948 | Sweden[1] | 15 | (0) | |||||||||||
| Managerial career | ||||||||||||||
| 1952–1953 | Örebro SK | |||||||||||||
| 1953–1955 | IK Brage | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | ||||||||||||||
Playing career edit
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.
Managerial career edit
After his playing career, he coached Örebro SK and IK Brage.[5]
References edit
- ^ "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
- ^ "IK Brage – Tillsammans är vi IK Brage".
External links edit
- 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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