Lennart Skoglund

Lennart Skoglund
Skoglund (left)
Personnel
Surname	Karl Lennart Skoglund
birthday	December 24, 1929
place of birth	Stockholm ,  Sweden
date of death	July 8, 1975
Place of death	Stockholm ,  Sweden
size	170 cm
position	Left winger
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1946-1950	Hammarby IF	57 (21)
1950	AIK Solna	5 (2)
1950-1959	Inter Milan	240 (53)
1959-1962	Sampdoria Genoa	78 (15)
1962-1963	US Palermo	6 (0)
1964-1967	Hammarby IF	53 (9)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1950-1964	Sweden	11 (1)
1 Only league games are given.

Karl Lennart Skoglund , nicknamed "Nacka", (born December 24, 1929 in Stockholm , † July 8, 1975 ) was a Swedish football player .

Career

Statue in honor of Lennart Skoglund in Stockholm

Striker Lennart Skoglund was one of the great stars of European football in the 1950s. Between 1944 and 1949 he played for Hammarby IF and had his first major international appearance after joining AIK Solna at the 1950 World Cup in Brazil . After this World Cup he moved to the Italian Serie A and became a professional footballer at Inter Milan . In 1953 and 1954 he was Italian champion with Inter. In total, he played 240 games for Inter and scored 57 goals.

After Sweden failed to qualify for the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland , Skoglund celebrated his greatest success in the national team at the 1958 World Cup in his own country : he became vice world champion. His only goal at this World Cup he scored in the semifinals in a 3-1 win over defending champions Germany .

After 13 years in the Italian professional league, where he played for Sampdoria Genoa and US Palermo after his time at Inter , he returned to Hammarby IF, where he ended his great career in 1967.

His grave is in Skogskyrkogården cemetery .

successes

• Italian champion (2): 1952/53 , 1953/54

Web links

Commons : Lennart Skoglund  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Lennart Skoglund in the database of weltfussball.de
• Lennart “Nacka” Skoglund