Per-Olof Eek

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Per-Olof Eek (born October 29, 1951 ) is a former Swedish football player . The defender played over 200 championship games for IFK Norrköping in the Allsvenskan in the 1970s .

Athletic career

Eek made his debut in the 1970 season for IFK Norrköping in the top division and immediately played all 22 league games. In the following season he was an undisputed regular when the club qualified third in the table for the UEFA Cup . After two wins against UTA Arad from Romania, the team failed after a 2-2 away draw with a 2-0 home defeat at the Italian representative Inter Milan in the 1972/73 UEFA Cup , while he had among others, at the side of Ove Kindvall and Benny Wendt , who scored five of the six goals scored by the Swedish club, played all four European games. In the summer of 1972 he was also with the club in the final of the national cup against Landskrona BoIS . After a 0-0 draw, a replay was scheduled. Despite a 2-0 half-time lead, to which Eek had contributed as a goal scorer, the game ended again in a draw after regular time and was decided by a goal by Torbjörn Lindström in extra time to the disadvantage of "Beijing".

At the same time she had played Eek in the junior national team of Svenska Fotbollförbundet . In July 1972 he made his debut on the defensive of the Swedish U-23 team , when they - driven by four-time goalscorer Ralf Edström - almost outclassed the German amateur national team in their preparation for the 1972 Summer Olympics with a 5-1 win at the Flensburg stadium . By 1975 he played a total of nine junior selection games, while he also played in the qualifying games for the U-23 European Championship in 1974 and the U-23 European Championship in 1976 , in which the selection team behind defending champions Czechoslovakia and the later semi-finalists Yugoslavia were promoted to second in the group missed the final round.

Eek remained a regular at his club in the following years. After he had ended the season in the 1974 season as third-bottom of the table on the last non-relegation place, the new coach Bengt Gustavsson led the team back into the midfield of the league in the following years. As fourth in the 1977 season she reached the European Cup again, in the 1978/79 UEFA Cup he said goodbye after two more appearances against Hibernian Edinburgh , in which a 2-3 away defeat and a 0-0 second leg draw meant the quick elimination from international soccer. At the end of the 1978 season , in which the team had landed again in the back of the table, he returned after 220 first division games and six goals scored the club the back.

For the season 1981 returned Eek as assistant coach of Bo Axberg the competition team of IFK Norrkoping back as third in the table, the club qualified for the UEFA Cup in 1982/83 . There the club failed in the second round at AS Roma only on penalties . After relegation from the first class at the end of 1982, he and Axberg had to give up their posts, Lars-Göran Qwist took over as head coach and led the team straight to promotion .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ landskronabois.se: "45 ÅR SEDAN BOIS BÄRGADE CUPGULDET" (accessed April 24, 2019)
  2. ↑ svenskfotboll.se: "Västtyskland 1-5 Sverige" (accessed April 24, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Eek, Per-Olof
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1951