Bertil Andersson (soccer player, 1929)

Bertil "Jompa" Andersson (born December 16, 1929 in Gothenburg , † June 8, 2009 ibid) was a Swedish ice hockey and football player .

Career

Andersson grew up in the Gothenburg district of Krokslätt . There he started playing soccer in summer when he was 13 or 14 years old, while playing bandy in winter . It aroused the interest of the Allsvenskan clubs AIK and Hammarby IF . While he was in Stockholm for a trial training session, Holger Jernsten , the coach of the Gothenburg club GAIS , persuaded him to return to his hometown and so in 1950 he joined the “Mackerel”.

Andersson made his debut in the game against Helsingborgs IF in the Allsvenskan. In the 3-2 success, he directly contributed his first first division. In the following years he stormed alongside Karl-Alfred Jacobsson , Hans Olsson and Frank Jacobsson and won with the team in the 1953/54 season for the fourth time in the club's history the Von Rosens Cup for the Swedish national champions. In 1959 he finished after 133 games in the Allsvenskan, in which he scored 43 goals, his active career for the club. An official international match for the Swedish national team was denied to him, only in an unofficial game against a press selection he was in the national shirt on the soccer field.

In 1954 GAIS initiated an ice hockey team. In this, Andersson was one of the first players. First, he competed with her in the Gothenburg series class 1 , before moving up to the then first-class HockeyAllsvenskan in 1957 . Here he played two seasons for the team until 1959.

After the end of his active sports career, Andersson moved to the coaching bench. At the amateur clubs Töllsjö IF and later Bollebygds IF , he coached the football teams and was partly active in the youth work.

Andersson died in 2009 at the age of 79 in an old people's home in the Göteborg district of Kärra on Hisingen .

Web links

• Bertil Andersson on the GAIS club website