Egon Jönsson (football player, 1926)

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Egon Jönsson , also Jonsson or Johnsson (born October 25, 1926 in Höganäs ; † July 20, 1985 ), was a Swedish football player who was active during the main part of his career in the French professional business and in Switzerland . As a 22-year-old, he played two A-internationals for Sweden, but then fell under the rule of non-consideration of professional athletes working abroad, which was widespread in Europe at the time. Because of his firing power, Jönsson was often referred to as "Atom-Egon" or "the bomber". After finishing his career, he settled in Switzerland.

Club career

societies from ... to Games
(goals) a
Oresunds BK
Utbynäs SK 1945
Vårgårda IK 1945-1947 021 0(?)
Höganäs BK
Redbergslids IK
GAIS Gothenburg Apr. 1948-1950 043 (23)
Stade Français Paris
(1951/52 and 1954/55 in D2) 		1950 – Dec. 1954 130 (74)
Racing Lens Jan. 1955-1957 066 (52)
FC Nancy (in D2) 1957/58 041 (29)
Lausanne Sports 1958 – Nov. 1959 034 (18)
SC Toulon Dec 1959-1960 017 0(9)
Yverdon-Sport (in NLB) 1960–1962 039 (25)
a league games only

In Sweden

Egon Jönsson grew up in Skåne , where he started playing football at Öresunds BK as a teenager , but was also active as a wrestler . From 1945 he did his military service in the artillery regiment "A2" near Gothenburg. During this time he played first for Utbynäs SK and after the transfer of the regiment to Vårgårda at the local club Vårgårda IK , for which he played 21 games until 1947. He then returned to his hometown, where he played for Höganäs BK . He later moved to Gothenburg , first to Redbergslids IK and then to the first division club GAIS . He made his debut for the " mackerel " -  makrillarna is the nickname commonly used in Sweden for the GAIS players - in April 1948 in a game against Djurgårdens IF on the left wing position and subsequently demonstrated his enormous scoring risk; by 1950 the striker scored 23 hits in 43 league appearances and was also a national player. GAIS finished both seasons as third and fifth place in the league. The fact that he was supposed to have played for Malmö FF for a long time in the 1940s seems very questionable in view of the literature used.

First professional years in Paris

For the 1950/51 season he left his home country and wore the dress of the French first division Stade Français Paris . The exact circumstances of his change are not known; But he was one of a number of Swedish footballers who came in the early 1950s to France and Italy in particular, where there was money to be made by playing football, and those from the clubs not only because of their qualities, but also because they were inexpensive were, gladly committed. In the same year as Jönsson, for example , three other Swedes came to Olympique Marseille : Gunnar Andersson , Gunnar Johansson and Dan Ekner . In Paris, Egon Jönsson needed a period of acclimatization, especially since Stade Français had a weak year, at the end of which the team even had to relegate to the second division . There, however, the strongly built attacker broke the knot with the hard, placed shot, and his 34 point game hits not only contributed significantly to the fact that the capitals returned to the top division just twelve months later, but he also shot himself with it the top of all goal scorers of the 1951/52 season and was soon referred to by the audience in the domestic Prinzenparkstadion as "the bomber" (le bombardier) . Also in the first division he formed a dangerous storm duo with Roger Vandooren and in 1953 was again among the most successful attackers in Division 1 . But although Stade Français continued to strengthen, especially from 1953 with players like Kees Rijvers , Kazimir Hnatow and Louis Hon , the team rose again in 1954 to the second division. When it became clear towards the end of the first half of the season that this time the immediate promotion would fail, the club sold Egon Jönsson in the winter of 1954/1955.

At Racing Lens and FC Nancy

This change to first division Racing Lens caused considerable discussions in the north of France, because it was unusual there to sign such an "excellent player who did not come from the local mining community and cost a lot of money". Some members of the club management, who were also on the board of the mining company of Lens-Liévin, who dominated the club, even accused President Michaux that this transfer was "absolutely insane". The Swede was one of only twelve full professionals in the 35-man squad, and Egon Jönsson also had to win over the Lenser audience. He benefited from the fact that he continued to score many goals himself - in total he scored 52 times for Lens in 66 games, which made him the fifth-best goalscorer in the club's history up to and including 2012 - and was at the top of the scorer list in both 1956 and 1957 ; his 29 goals in the 1956/57 season meant third place behind Thadée Cisowski and Just Fontaine . In addition, Racing Lens was very well staffed under its Austrian trainer Anton Marek : names such as Xercès Louis , Théodore Szkudlapski , Maryan Wisnieski , Michel Stievenard , Janusz "Jean" Templin or Erich Habitzl had a good reputation across the country, and the team counted Mitte in the 1950s one of the strongest in France, was third in the league in 1955 and runners-up in the following two years.

Still, Racing gave up its most successful striker in 1957, and Jönsson is said not to have been overly sad about it; because outside of the training grounds and stadiums, he had hardly been able to integrate socially in the small town of Lens . He committed the first division relegated FC Nancy , who had earned the money by selling his national player Roger Piantoni that he wanted to invest in the team for immediate promotion. And the investment in Egon Jönsson paid off: at the end of the 1957/58 season , the Lorraine team finished the table as champions of the second division, and the Swedish striker, who had an experienced assistent at his side in Léon Deladerrière , scored 29 goals for the second time after 1952 he was king of the league.

In Switzerland

However, he did not stay with Nancy, but accepted an offer from the Swiss A national league team Lausanne-Sports , with whom he was fifth in the championship in 1959 and personally twelfth NLA goalscorer. He also played his only two matches there in a European competition. In the first leg of the Messestädte Cup in the Belgrade city selection , "the Swedish center forward Egon Jonsson brought the Confederates [after two minutes] into the lead [and put] the 22,000 spectators ... under shock"; the Yugoslavs then turned the game around (final score: 6-1), and after a 3-5 defeat at their home stadium Stade Olympique de la Pontaise , Lausanne was eliminated after the first round. In late 1959, he left Lausanne to play again in the French Division 1 . It was a short interlude, because his club there, SC Toulon , was relegated at the end of the season, and Jönsson, now almost 34 years old, returned to Switzerland from the port city on the Mediterranean , where he then played for two seasons Yverdon sport wore. There, too, he scored an average of every second encounter in National League B into the opposing goal, but he was unable to return to the country's top division.

When Egon Jönsson ended his career in 1962, he had not won a national championship title or trophy with his teams. In France it was enough for two runners-up, three times to the Cup quarter- finals (1951, 1953, 1957) and twice in the final in the Coupe Charles Drago , which he won in 1957 with Lens 1: 3 against Olympique Marseille and 1960 with Toulon 2: 3 lost against Lens, where he managed at least one goal in 1960. But Jönsson could look back on an extraordinary success rate; In the 14 years since 1948 he has played a total of 370 point games and scored 230 goals, of which 43 (23) in Sweden, 163 (96) in France's first division, 91 (68) in the second division and 73 (43) in Switzerland . In France there were 27 more appearances with 24 goals in Coupe de France and Coupe Drago .

During his time in Switzerland, Jönsson completed his training as a chiropractor . After the end of his career, he stayed there, mainly treating sports injuries and was a sought-after rehabilitation specialist . In 1985 he died of an incurable disease at the age of 59.

In the national team

Egon Jönsson made two international appearances for Sweden in 1949 and also scored a goal in this circle. This goal was a powerful volley from 25 meters away, against which goalkeeper Ted Ditchburn had no chance of defense when the three-crown team defeated the favored English 3-1 in Stockholm on May 13 , and this goal is also responsible for it be that the goalscorer was henceforth nicknamed "Atom-Egon". In a review of Jönsson's career published in 2004, it is said of this spectacular process that it was “a shot like a brush stroke by Picasso ”.

Three weeks later, Jönsson came in the World Cup qualifier against Ireland, also won 3-1, for his second and last appearance in blue-yellow. The fact that he did not make it to more international games was partly due to the strong competition - Sweden was Olympic champion in 1948 (with the legendary " Gre - No - Li storm") and third in the world championship in 1950 (including his namesake and Lennart Skoglund as attackers in the World Cup squad ) - on the other hand, because the Swedish association then no longer considered foreign professionals.

Palmarès

  • French runner-up: 1956, 1957
  • French second division champions: 1952, 1958
  • Division 2 top scorer : 1952, 1958
  • Coupe Charles Drago: Finalist 1957, 1960

literature

  • Marc Barreaud: Dictionnaire des footballeurs étrangers du championnat professionnel français (1932–1997). L'Harmattan, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-7384-6608-7
  • Marion Fontaine: Le Racing Club de Lens et les "Gueules Noires". Essai d'histoire sociale. Les Indes savantes, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-84654-248-7
  • Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2009. Vecchi, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-7328-9295-5

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ Jönsson, for example, at Barreaud, Guillet / Laforge, Boisson / Vian and footballdatabase.eu (although French usually doesn't know -ö-), Jonsson at Fontaine, Wahl / Lanfranchi, Weinrich, on the side of the RC Lens (which is possibly the continuous Name writing is owed in capital letters, in which diacritical marks are generally omitted) and idrottonline.se (on a document from 1945 shown there, while the associated article writes it with -h-), Johnsson at pari-et-gagne.com and gais. se, which also calls him Johansson on the same page .
  2. ↑ date of birth according to Barreaud, p. 230; according to his data sheet at footballdatabase.eu (see links ) on October 8th - this is Egon “Todde” Jönsson's birthday (1921–2000) and therefore probably a mistake - according to http://iof4.idrottonline.se / VastergotlandsIdrottsforbund / Idrottshistoria / Idrottshistoriska-Sallskapen / WargardaIHS / Varidrottshistorik / Profiler / EgonAtom-EgonJohnsson1926-1985 / (link not available) and this French website on December 6th.
  3. ↑ a b c "Atom-Egon" from Höganäs sänkte engelsmännen ( memento from April 18, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (accessed on July 10, 2012)
  4. ↑ a b http://iof4.idrottonline.se/VastergotlandsIdrottsforbund/Idrottshistoria/Idrottshistoriska-Sallskapen/WargardaIHS/Varidrottshistorik/Profiler/EgonAtom-EgonJohnsson1926-1985/ (link not available)
  5. ↑ see the team roster for this game ( Memento from May 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) at gais.se
  6. ↑ according to his data sheet at gais.se (see under web links )
  7. ↑ According to his data sheet at footballdatabase (see under web links ), which may confuse him with his namesake five years older than him ; on the other hand, for example, Barreaud, p. 230.
  8. ^ Alfred Wahl / Pierre Lanfranchi : Les footballeurs professionnels des années trente à nos jours. Hachette, Paris 1995, ISBN 978-2-01-235098-4 , p. 132
  9. ^ Alain Pécheral: La grande histoire de l'OM. Des origines à nos jours. Ed. Prolongations, o. O. 2007 ISBN 978-2-916400-07-5 , pp. 137f.
  10. ↑ a b Guillet / Laforge, p. 252
  11. ↑ "Atom-Egon" by Höganäs sänkte engelsmännen ( memento from April 18, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) calls this le Bombiere , which is not linguistically correct
  12. ↑ All seasonal first division goalscorer lists, also for Jönsson's later years, according to Guillet / Laforge, pp. 150–159.
  13. ↑ Fontaine, pp. 145f., 150 (there one of the two quotations) and 157
  14. ↑ see the statistics of the best goalscorers in the club's history ( memento of the original from June 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the side of the RC Lens @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rclens.fr
  15. ↑ Photo of the cadre from 1955/56 ( Memento of the original from May 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the Racing Lens club website @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rclens.fr
  16. ^ Fontaine, pp. 159 and 164
  17. ↑ see the seasonal article 1958/59 at rsssf.com
  18. ^ Matthias Weinrich: The European Cup. 1955 to 1974. AGON, Kassel o. J. [2007], ISBN 978-3-89784-252-6 , p. 69
  19. ↑ according to the competition season data sheets for 1956/57 and 1959/60
  20. ↑ Use and hit numbers in France's first division according to Stéphane Boisson / Raoul Vian: Il était une fois le Championnat de France de Football. Tous les joueurs de la première division de 1948/49 à 2003/04. Neofoot, Saint-Thibault o. J., in the second division and the French cup competitions according to Jönsson's data sheet at footballdatabase (see under web links ) and in Switzerland according to pari-et-gagne.com .
  21. ↑ see the statistics ( memento of November 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) at passagen.se
  22. ↑ according to his data sheet at gais.se (see under web links )
  23. ^ Lorenz Knieriem, Matthias Voigt: Football World Cup 1950 Brazil (= "AGON World Cup history." Vol. 4). AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2003, ISBN 3-89784-217-3 , p. 103.


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personal data
SURNAME Jonsson, Egon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jonsson, Egon; Johnsson, Egon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Höganäs
DATE OF DEATH July 20, 1985