Reine Feldt

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Reine Arnold Feldt (born September 29, 1945 , † December 6, 1986 ) was a Swedish football player . The defender won the Swedish championship as team captain with IFK Göteborg . Posthumously he made headlines because of his secretive homosexuality and he is considered one of the first AIDS deaths in Sweden.

Career

Player career

Feldt grew up in the Gothenburg workers' district of Majorna . He played from 1965 for the IFK Göteborg competition team in Allsvenskan , where he quickly established himself as a regular player and never missed a league game in the 1967 season. Initially placed at the bottom of the table, he surprised the team around Björn Ericsson , Göran Nicklasson and top scorer Reine Almqvist in the 1969 season . With three points ahead of Malmö FF , she won the Von Rosens Cup for the Swedish national champions for the seventh time in the club's history eleven years after the last triumph . Here, too, the team captain was in action in all 22 games of the season.

The following season was unsuccessful for Feldt and his teammates. While in the first round of the 1970/71 European Cup, the Polish representative Legia Warsaw clearly prevailed with two wins, the team won only six of the 22 season games in the championship and ended the series on a relegation zone. Until 1975 he was still for IFK Göteborg in the second highest division on the field before he left the club in 1976 after more than 350 games in the direction of Trollhättans IF . With the league competitor he missed relegation at the end of the season, where he ended his active career.

After the end of his career, Feldt, who had studied political science and committed himself to communism , concentrated on his work as a journalist for the newspaper Arbetet , which he began parallel to his football career . Together with Tommy Öberg , he published the book "GDR: Undret i idrottsvärlden" in 1978, a benevolent discussion of GDR sport.

Homosexuality and AIDS

Feldt lived a double life , since during his active time homosexuality was a taboo subject, especially in sports. So he had started a family with two children. In 1980 he separated from his wife and moved to Amsterdam , where he lived with his partner. A few years later he fell ill with AIDS. He then returned to Sweden, where he explained the symptoms of the disease, including skin cancer . When he passed away in 1986, the actual cause of death was concealed.

In August 2013 the journalist Hans Burell , Feldt's colleague for over 15 years at the newspaper Arbetet, published a book about Feldt and the double life he led in Offside-Verlag under the title “Ärkeängeln - En hjältes hemlighet”. Feldt's two daughters helped him, among other things, to come to terms with his life story.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reine Feldt in: www.svenskagravar.se; accessed on May 26, 2017
  2. ↑ gp.se: "" Alla är inte hetero "" (accessed on August 19, 2013)
  3. ↑ a b aftonbladet.se: "Hela hans liv var ett spel" (accessed on August 19, 2013)
  4. ↑ a b bt.se: "Ärkeängelns hemliga himlafärd" (accessed on August 19, 2013)
  5. ↑ a b expressen.se: "" Dörren till pappas hemlighet öppnades "" (accessed on August 19, 2013)
personal data
SURNAME Feldt, Reine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Feldt, Reine Arnold (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1945
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1986