Ove Grahn

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Ove Grahn
Personnel
Surname Jan-Olof Grahn
birthday May 9, 1943
place of birth Norra Fågelås ,  Sweden
date of death July 11, 2007
Place of death Alingsås ,  Sweden
size 180 cm
position Center Forward
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1961-1965 IF Elfsborg 91 (63)
1965-1971 Grasshoppers Zurich 133 (70)
1971-1973 FC Lausanne Sports 52 (31)
1973-1976 Grasshoppers Zurich 59 (20)
1976-1988 Örgryte IS 37 0(3)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1962-1976 Sweden 45 (10)
1 Only league games are given.

Jan-Olof Grahn , called Ove Grahn (born May 9, 1943 in Norra Fågelås , † July 11, 2007 in Alingsås ) was a Swedish football player . The striker , who spent much of his career in Switzerland , took part in two world championships . In 1971 he became a Swiss national champion and two years later, scorer of the National League A .

Career

Grahn began his football career in his hometown at the local sports club Norra Fågelås IF . As a 17-year-old, he scored 40 goals in 14 games for the club. In doing so, he helped the team, which scored a total of 52 goals this season, almost single-handedly to stay in the league, but also attracted high-class attention.

The first division team IF Elfsborg secured the services of Grahn. In the 1961 season he was used for the club in four games in the Allsvenskan and was celebrated as the Swedish champion at the end of the season. His talent did not go unnoticed by Svenska Fotbollförbundet and in 1962 he received his first nomination for an international match for the Swedish national team. In the 3-0 win over the Finnish national team on June 19 of that year, he crowned his national team debut with the goal of a 1-0 lead.

By 1965, Grahn had scored 62 goals in 91 games in the IF Elfsborg jersey. With this quota he made himself internationally interesting and, like his compatriots Bo Larsson , Ove Kindvall or Lars Granström, was courted by foreign clubs, although he had offers from Scotland and Switzerland. At the age of 22 he accepted an offer from the Swiss club Grasshopper Club Zurich . He quickly established himself at the club in attacking and in 1968, with 14 goals this season, he reached fourth place in the national league A's top scorer list.

In 1970 national coach Orvar Bergmark Grahn nominated for the World Cup in Mexico . After a 1-0 defeat against Italy , a 1-1 draw against Israel and a 1-0 win over Uruguay , the team was eliminated in third place in the group stage due to the poorer goal difference against the South Americans. Nevertheless, with the 1-0 winning goal in stoppage time, he managed one of his most important international goals in a direct comparison.

Even after the tournament, Grahn was one of the most important strikers in the Swiss league. In 1971 he ended the season with GCZ tied with FC Basel at the top of the table. In the subsequent playoff for the championship title, he contributed two goals to the 4-3 victory and winning the championship. In addition, he ranked second in the list of goalscorers with 16 goals behind Walter Müller , who scored 19 goals. Two years later, the attacker , who had meanwhile switched to Lausanne-Sports , was at the top of the list with 18 goals this season together with Ottmar Hitzfeld . In 1973 he moved back to Zurich after two years in Lausanne.

In the national team, Grahn was also one of the regulars. As a goal scorer and preparer, he helped the team to participate in the tournament again in qualifying for the 1974 World Cup in Germany . With the selection of the country he surprisingly reached the second group stage in the tournament, where the team finished third despite a 2-1 win over Yugoslavia after losing to Germany and Poland . He was used in all six games.

1975 Grahn triumphed with GCZ in the Swiss League Cup . A year later he returned to Sweden to Örgryte IS . In the same year ended after 45 international matches in which he could score ten goals, his national team career.

After the end of his active career, Grahn worked as a constable in Alingsås. There he died at the age of 64.

Web links

  • Ove Grahn in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d "Ove Grahn död" - Article at expressen.se ( Memento of the original from December 9, 2008 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. (accessed on February 5, 2009) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.expressen.se
  2. ↑ "Landskamper 1962" - unofficial statistics of the Swedish national team at hem.passagen.se (accessed on February 5, 2009)
  3. ↑ "Sweden is very popular" - Article at abendblatt.de ( Memento from July 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ a b "Hellström:" Jag såg upp till honom "" - article at aftonbladet.se (accessed on February 5, 2009)
  5. ↑ "Sverige behöver en Ove Grahn" - article at svd.se (accessed on February 5, 2009)
  6. ↑ "Alla Spelare. G "- Unofficial statistics of the Swedish national team at hem.passagen.se (accessed on February 5, 2009)
personal data
SURNAME Grahn, Ove
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grahn, Jahn-Olof
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Norra Fågelås , Sweden
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 2007
Place of death Alingsås , Sweden