Verner Eklöf

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Verner Edmund Eklöf (born March 8, 1897 in Helsinki ; † December 2, 1955 ibid) was a Finnish football and bandy player as well as Nordic combined .

Life

Eklöf was a member of Helsingfors IFK from 1913 to 1920 , then HJK Helsinki until his retirement in 1927 , with whom he won the Finnish football championship in 1923 and 1925.

For the Finnish national football team , Eklöf completed 32 games between 1919 and 1927 and scored 17 goals. He was Finland's record scorer until 1995. From 1923 to 1926 he was captain of the national team.

In the bandy Eklöf reached with Helsingfors IFK in 1916 and 1920 the finals for the Finnish championship, in 1916 also the final in the HIFK with 3: 8 to the club Viipurin Bandy & Jalkapalloseura . With HJK Helsinki he won the Finnish championship in 1921, 1923 and 1924. In the winter of 1921/22 he coached the SK Tallinna Sport bandy team . Eklöf also played three times for the Finnish national bandy team .

In addition to soccer, Eklöf also played winter sports. At the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix , he was ninth in the Nordic Combined.

successes

Bandy:

  • Finnish champion: 1921, 1923 and 1924
  • Finnish runner-up: 1916, 1919

Soccer:

  • Finnish champion: 1923 and 1925
  • Finnish runner-up: 1921

Nordic combination:

  • two Finnish champions: 1923 and 1924

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ rsssf.com: Finland - International Player Records (accessed December 20, 2011)
  2. ↑ finbandy.fi: Suomen maajoukkuepelaajat ( RTF ; 70 kB)
  3. ↑ Verner Eklöf in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
personal data
SURNAME Eklöf, Verner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eklöf, Verner Edmund (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish soccer and bandy player and Nordic combined athlete
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Helsinki , Finland
DATE OF DEATH 2nd December 1955
Place of death Helsinki , Finland