Knut Nordahl

Knut Nordahl
Personnel
Surname	Knut Erik Alexander Nordahl
birthday	January 13, 1920
place of birth	Hörnefors ,  Sweden
date of death	October 28, 1984
Place of death	Föllinge ,  Sweden
size	186 cm
position	Middle runner
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1937-1940	Hörnefors IF
1940-1950	IFK Norrköping	167 (40)
1950-1952	AS Roma	61 0(1)
1952-1954	IFK Norrköping
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1945-1950	Sweden	26 0(1)
1 Only league games are given.

Knut Erik Alexander Nordahl (born January 13, 1920 in Hörnefors , † October 28, 1984 in Föllinge , Krokom municipality ) was a Swedish football player .

Life

Nordahl came from a family of footballers. His brothers Bertil , Gunnar and the twins Gösta and Göran also played in the highest Swedish league.

In 1949 Knut Nordahl was awarded the Guldbollen as Sweden's Footballer of the Year , after his brothers Gunnar (1947) and Bertil (1948) had previously received the award.

Club career

In the 1940s he played for IFK Norrköping , with whom he was Swedish champion several times. In 1950, like many Swedes, he moved to Italy. He signed with AS Roma , where he played with fellow countrymen Stig Sundqvist and Sune Andersson .

National team

Nordahl played 26 times for the Swedish national team between 1945 and 1950 and was able to score one goal. In 1948 he won the gold medal at the Olympic Games , his brothers Gunnar and Bertil were also in the squad. Two years later, with the selection, he achieved third place at the 1950 World Cup . After moving to Italy, he was no longer included in the national selection, as the Swedish Football Association rejected professional football at the time.

successes

• Swedish champions (5): 1942/43 , 1944/45 , 1945/46 , 1946/47 , 1947/48
• Swedish Cup Winner (2): 1943, 1945
• Olympic champion 1948

Web links

• Article about the award for Sweden's Footballer of the Year 1949 (Swedish)
• Knut Nordahl in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )