Olle Olsson (handball player)

Olle Olsson

Player information
Full name	Nils Olle Bernhard Olsson
birthday	June 1, 1948  (age 72)
place of birth	Lund , Sweden
citizenship	Swedish
height	1.91 m
Club information
society	Career ended
Clubs in the youth
from ... to	society
0000-1967	LUGI HF
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
1965-1974	LUGI HF
1974-1975	IF Saab
1975-1980	AIK handboll
National team
Debut on	April 1, 1966 December 29, 1967
against	Denmark U-21 in Helsinki Denmark in Kristianstad
	Games (goals)
Sweden U-21 Sweden	29 (75) 73 (127)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to	society
1975-1980	AIK Handboll (player coach)
1980-1982	IFK Kristianstad
1982-1990	LUGI HF
1990-1993	IL Norrøna
1993-1995	Virum-Sorgefri HK
1995-1997	Japan
1997-12 / 1997	VfL Gummersbach
1998–9 / 1998	VfL Gummersbach
1999-2000	LUGI HF
2000-2001	Saudi Arabia
As of June 4, 2020

Nils Olle Bernhard Olsson (born June 1, 1948 in Lund , Sweden ) is a former Swedish handball player and coach .

Career

Olsson started playing handball in his hometown at LUGI HF , where he became a national player at an early age. He only left the club at the age of 26 and switched to IF Saab in 1974 . After just one season he was for five years player-coach of AIK Handboll . He then trained for ten more years in Sweden (two at IFK Kristianstad and eight at LUGI HF). From 1990 to 1993 he coached a team abroad for the first time with the Norwegian club IL Norrøna . This was followed by two years at the Danish club Virum-Sorgenfri HK , before he was the Japanese national coach from 1995 to 1997 and took part with the team in the 1997 World Cup. Immediately afterwards he took over VfL Gummersbach in the handball Bundesliga . After only five months he was released, but appointed sports director. In this role, he sat seven months later at the beginning of the 1997/98 season again as a coach. However, he resigned two days before the start of the season. After training his hometown club LUGI HF again for a season, he became the coach of the Saudi Arabian national team in 2000 . After participating in the 2001 World Cup , Olsson ended his engagement and later voiced the suspicion that corrupt structures were prevalent in Asian handball . He turned down an offer to prepare the Egyptian national team for the 2003 World Cup after a two-week period and ended his career.

In the period from 1967 to 1977 Olsson played 73 senior international games for Sweden and took part with the national team at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich .

Private

Olsson lived in Spain for many years before suffering a heart attack in February 2018 after running training in Malaga and having to be resuscitated four times. After that, Olsson moved back to Sweden, where he lives outside of Markaryd .

Web links

• Olle Olsson in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Match statistics Olle Olsson. In: handboll.capmind.se. Retrieved June 4, 2020 (Swedish). 
2. ↑ sparial statistics. In: handbollslandslaget.se. Svenska Handbollslandslaget, accessed June 4, 2020 (Swedish). 
3. ↑ olympedia.org: Olle Olsson . As of June 4, 2020.
4. ^ Dpa Deutsche Presse-Agentur GmbH : Olsson trains VfL Gummersbach . In: Rainer Thomas (Ed.): Mindener Tageblatt . 140, week 25 JCC Bruns Betriebs-GmbH, Minden June 20, 1997, p. 29 , here: top right .
5. ^ Erik Eggers , Christoph Bertling, Wolfgang Gütschow: Directory of persons - TRAINER . In: VfL Gummersbach 1861: the chronicle . Erik Eggers, with contributions by Christoph Bertling and Wolfgang Gütschow. Verlag Die Werkstatt GmbH, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-7307-0199-7 , p. 204 , here: Column 2 : "As such, he used himself as a trainer in the summer of 1998, [...]."
6. ↑ Jan Gustafson: Egypt Nästa för Olle Olsson. Globetrotters Olle Olsson kan inte lämna sin kära handboll ... In: sydsvenskan.se. May 10, 2002, Retrieved September 12, 2019 (Swedish). 
7. ↑ Jan Gustafsson: Egypt inget för Olle Olsson. Directly efter det att Egypt förlorat VM-kvalet i handboll mot Tunisien fuck förbundskaptenen Klajic sparken. Några dagar senare gick budet till Olle Olsson att ta över. In: sydsvenskan.se. May 23, 2002, Retrieved September 12, 2019 (Swedish). 
8. ^ ^{A b} Jan Peter Andersson: Landslagsmannen: ”Hjärtat slutade slå”. In: expressen.se. Kvällsposten - södra Sveriges kvällstidning, 23 March 2018, accessed on 12 September 2019 (Swedish).