Gates Cervin

Gates Cervin
Personnel
birthday	2nd August 1950
place of birth	Malmo ,  Sweden
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
1970-1972	BK Lydia
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1972-1980	Malmö FF	126 (55)
1981	Toronto Blizzard	9 0(2)
1982-1983	Limhamns IF
1984-1985	Helsingborgs IF	18 0(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1975-1979	Sweden	4 (1)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1982-1983	Limhamns IF
	Malmö FF Youth
1 Only league games are given.

Tore Cervin (born August 2, 1950 in Malmö ) is a former Swedish football player . The striker , who won the Swedish national championship twice with Malmö FF , played four times for the Swedish national team . The European Cup finalist from 1979 now works as a youth coach.

Career

Cervin only started playing football at the club when he was twenty, when he was taken by friends to training at the seventh-class Malmö club BK Lydia . After he scored six goals in a game for the second team, he was taken over to the first team. There, too, he shone as a regular goalscorer, so that the first division team Malmö FF noticed him.

In 1972 Cervin moved to MFF in the Allsvenskan . In his first division debut against the Stockholm club Djurgårdens IF , he scored the decisive goal. After the English coach Bob Houghton took over the management of the team, the club returned to the top flight of the league. 1974 and 1975 Cervin won the championship title twice in a row with Malmö FF. In addition, he placed himself in the 1975 season with 20 goals this season as the club's best internal goalscorer in second place on the list of goalscorers behind Jan Mattsson of Östers IF . Consequently, national coach Georg Ericson appointed him to the national team. In the 0-0 draw against Denmark on September 25, 1975, he made his debut in the Swedish national jersey, but was not able to prevail against the regular forces in the storm Thomas Sjöberg and Ralf Edström .

After the runner-up in the following year, Malmö FF placed in the 1977 season again at the top of the Allsvenskan table. Since Cervin was not one of the eleven players with the most season appearances, he missed the award as national champion. Probably the greatest success of his career came in the 1978/79 European Cup when the team around players like Roland Andersson , Staffan Tapper , Robert Prytz , Ingemar Erlandsson and Jan-Olov Kinnvall after victories over AS Monaco , Dynamo Kiev , Wisła Krakow and FK Austria Wien moved into the final for the national championship cup. In front of 57,000 spectators at the Olympic Stadium in Munich, the team was defeated by the English representative Nottingham Forest with a goal from Trevor Francis with 0: 1.

At the end of the 1980 season , Cervin left after 258 games Malmö FF and moved to the North American Soccer League . At the side of players like José Velásquez , Bruce Wilson and Jomo Sono , he ran a season for Toronto Blizzard . He then returned to Sweden as a player- coach for Limhamns IF . In 1984 he returned to Helsingborgs IF in the higher class football, but in the two seasons he was injured only irregularly and then ended his active career.

Cervin later returned to his old club Malmö FF as a youth coach. He won the Swedish championship title in 2007 with the club's U-16 team, which was supervised by Anders Palmér . A year later, the team moved into the final again, but lost to the offspring of IFK Norrköping .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ nasljerseys.com: "North American Soccer League Rosters - Toronto Blizzard" (accessed August 4, 2009)
2. ↑ svenskfotboll.se: "Pojkallsvenskan 2007 - Malmö FF svenska pojkmästare 2007" ( memento of the original from February 24, 2010 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 August 4, 2009) 

Web links

• sydsvenskan.se: "Spelade aldrig juniorfotboll"
• Tore Cervin in the database of weltfussball.de