Bengt Persson

Bengt Persson (1982)
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Bengt Persson (* 1942 ) is a Swedish former football coach . He worked for Hammarby IF and Djurgårdens IF in Allsvenskan before he mainly looked after clubs in the Swedish amateur sector.

Career

At the end of the 1960s Persson studied at the Stockholm Gymnastik- och idrottshögskolan and became a sports teacher. He coached IFK Eskilstuna in the second division in the early 1970s . After several places in the middle of the table, the first division club Djurgårdens IF signed him in early 1975 as the successor to Antonio Durán . In the following season, the team played for a long time with Malmö FF for the championship title. In the last seven games of the season, however, the team around Tommy Berggren , Harry Svensson , Björn Alkeby and Sven Lindman missed the connection with only six out of 14 possible points and finished third in the table at the end of the season. In the following seasons, however, the club slipped into relegation battle. In the 1976 season , the team followed by bad luck with injuries - in particular the top performers Sven Lindman, Tommy Davidsson and Anders Grönhagen - were sometimes on the list of injuries for a long time - in the first half of the following season without a win of the season. With his decision to replace Tommy Berggren in the striker, Persson made a groundbreaking decision, the player helped as a regular goalscorer to stay in the league and finally crowned himself the league's top scorer in the 1979 season . After the final spurt of the previous year, the club was also in the front of the league during the season and ended the season in fifth place. Nevertheless, the club decided to change coach and hired Alan Ball as the new trainer.

Initially, Persson took over the coaching position at the second division club Vasalunds IF in 1979 , before he worked as a representative for the German-Danish sportswear company Hummel . In 1982 he returned to the Allsvenskan as a coach and became the head coach of Hammarby IF. He led the team around Michael Andersson , Sten-Ove Ramberg , Ulf Eriksson , Per Holmberg and Thomas Dennerby at the end of the regular season in 1982 as second in the table in the championship finals. There she prevailed against Örgryte IS and IF Elfsborg and reached the final. In the first leg on October 27 of that year, Jonnie Efraimsson and Peter Gerhardsson turned the lead achieved by Håkan Sandberg against reigning UEFA Cup winners IFK Göteborg to a 2-1 away win. However, the second leg, which took place four days later, was dominated by the team supervised by Gunder Bengtsson and won the championship title after a 3-0 lead with a 3-1 victory. In the summer of the following year Persson led the team into the next final, in the national cup it was again against IFK Göteborg. With a goal by Dan Corneliusson in extra time, the competitor also won this title, but as a defeated finalist Hammarby IF was qualified for the European Cup Winners' Cup 1983/84 . First against KS 17. Nëntori Tirana , the team was eliminated against the Finnish representative Valkeakosken Haka after extra time in the second round. In the championship, too, the team made it to the finals again as fifth in the table, but flew straight out of the competition in the quarter-finals against local rivals AIK . Although the championship made it to the semi-finals in the 1984 season, Persson was unable to agree on a new contract with the club's officials and was replaced by the reactivated Björn Bolling .

Persson took after his departure at Hammarby IF an offer from the second division IFK Västerås and trained the team until they were relegated to the third division in 1987 for three seasons. He then returned to IFK Eskilstuna, with whom he narrowly missed promotion to Allsvenskan in 1988 as runner-up behind Örebro SK . In the summer of the following year he was unexpectedly released.

Persson then worked for Svenska Fotbollförbundet for a long time, especially in the youth sector, while he was a full-time teacher. At the end of the 2000s he was the coach of the IF Blå amateur club in the eighth division, where his son played.

Web links

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