Thomas Nordahl

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Thomas Nordahl
Personnel
birthday May 24, 1946
place of birth Norrkoping ,  Sweden
size 183 cm
position midfield
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1964 Degerfors IF 14 (4)
1965-1968 Örebro SK 77 (41)
1968-1971 RSC Anderlecht 75 (28)
1971-1978 Örebro SK 175 (55)
1979-1980 BK Forward 45 (21)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1967-1975 Sweden 15 (5)
1 Only league games are given.

Thomas Nordahl (born May 24, 1946 ) is a former Swedish football player and coach. The son of Gunnar Nordahl , one of the most important Swedish football players of all time, made 15 appearances for the Swedish national team between 1967 and 1975 .

Career

Nordahl grew up in Italy because his father moved there as a professional footballer and played in Serie A for AC Milan and AS Roma . After going to school in Italy, he returned to Sweden with the family in the late 1950s.

Nordahl began his adult career at Degerfors IF , where his father also started his first division career . In 1964 he made his debut for the club in the Allsvenskan, which was coached by his father at the time . After one season he moved on to Örebro SK within the league . In 1967 he reached the third place of the Allsvenskan with the club and was rewarded in September of that year with his national team debut in the 3-1 defeat against Norway , in which he scored the Swedish consolation goal.

In 1968 Nordahl moved abroad and signed a contract with Juventus Turin . However, the club loaned him directly to RSC Anderlecht . In 1970 he moved with the Belgian team in the finals for the trade fair cup against the English representative FC Arsenal . In the first leg in Belgium Johan Devrindt and Jan Mulder , who scored two goals, gave the club a 3-0 lead before Ray Kennedy scored the consolation goal for England. This hit turned out to be important as the London club won the competition after a 3-0 win in the second leg, in which Nordahl was on the pitch as in the first leg for the entire game.

In the same year, Nordahl took part with the country selection at the 1970 World Cup, in which the team failed in the group stage as third due to the poorer goal difference behind Italy and Uruguay . The following year he returned to Sweden to Örebro SK. Until the club's relegation from the Allsvenskan in late 1978, he ran for the team, before ending his career with the lower class BK Forward between 1979 and 1980 after 252 games in which he had managed 106 goals for the club .

After the end of his active career, Nordahl moved to the coaching bench and looked after, among others, BK Forward, Sandvikens IF , Motala AIF and IFK Norrköping .

In recent years, Nordahl has also been in demand as a TV expert. Among other things , he commented on the 2006 World Cup for Viasat .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ hem.passagen.se: “Alla Spelare. N " (accessed on July 13, 2009)
  2. ↑ rsca.be: "European Finals" ( Memento from April 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Nordahl, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish football player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1946