Prawitz Öberg

Öberg (r.) Receives the Guldbollen in 1962

Prawitz Öberg (born November 16, 1930 in Gislöv , † November 4, 1995 in Västra Skrävlinge ) was a Swedish football player . The defender and midfielder , who was vice world champion with the Swedish national team without playing, won the Swedish championship once with Malmö FF .

Career

Öberg played in his youth at Trelleborgs FF . There he did not make the leap into the competition team, so he left the club at the age of 19 and moved to the lower class Gislöv IF . Here he was immediately successful and stood out from the team, so that after a year the higher-class Trelleborg FF and IFK Trelleborg vied for his services. After he had decided on the latter, he was one of the top performers in the second division in the season 1951/52.

Before the start of the 1952/53 season, Öberg moved to Malmö FF in the Allsvenskan . While the team around Egon Jönsson , Arne Månsson , Nils-Åke Sandell and Henry Thillberg secured the Von Rosens Cup for the Swedish championship at the end of the season , he missed a game to be awarded a gold medal. First he played on the left wing, sometimes on the offensive. After the departure of Arne Månssons in the summer of 1955, he inherited this on the left defender position. There he established himself as a regular player and moved into the field of vision of the selection committee ( Uttagningskommittén ) for the Swedish national team. In October 1957, he made his debut alongside Orvar Bergmark , Sigvard Parling , Gunnar Gren and Agne Simonsson in a 5-2 win over Norway in the national jersey and became a regular in the squad. Also for the 1958 World Cup in their own country, those responsible nominated him alongside his teammate Tore Svensson , but the two were not used during the tournament.

Meanwhile moved back to the left midfield, Öberg had his best time as a player in the early 1960s. Undisputed regular player in the club and the national team, he was awarded the Guldbollen as Swedish footballer of the year in 1962 . If he missed qualifying for the 1962 World Cup with the national team , he reached the elimination round for the 1964 European Championship with her . Under coach Lennart Nyman , the team only missed participation in the finals in May 1964 in the quarter-finals against the USSR . In October of that year he played his 26th and last international match on the occasion of a 3-3 draw against the Polish national team , which he crowned with his fifth international goal.

If Öberg had narrowly been denied the championship medal twelve years earlier, he won the championship title at the end of his active career under the direction of coach Antonio Durán at the side of Ingvar Svahn , Krister Kristensson and Bo Larsson . As a player-coach he took over Gunnarstorps IF and reached the promotion round to Allsvenskan with the second division team at the end of the 1966 season, but failed with the team behind Hammarby IF and IFK Holmsund . He later trained Lunds BK , Anderslöv BoIK , Trelleborgs FF, Malmö BI and Limhamns IF .

Öberg fell ill with bone cancer and succumbed to the disease shortly before his retirement in autumn 1995.

Web links

• sydsvenskan.se: "Nära modern satte stopp"