Börje Leander
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| Full name | Oscar Börje Leander | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 7 March 1918 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Avesta, Sweden | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 30 October 2003 (aged 85) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Mora, Sweden | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1938–1953 | AIK | 249 | (25) | ||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1941–1950 | Sweden[1] | 23 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Oscar Börje Leander (7 March 1918 – 30 October 2003) was a Swedish footballer. He played 249 matches as a midfielder for AIK and scored 25 goals, mostly successful penalty kicks. He also played 23 times for the Sweden national team, scoring four goals. He was on the Sweden squad that won the gold medal in the 1948 Summer Olympics.[2] When Knut Nordahl was injured in the opening match against Austria, Leander stepped in as a substitute right-back, and stayed until the final, when Nordahl recovered.[3][4]
Honours
Sweden[4]
References
- ^ "Sweden men's national football team stats". passagen.se (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 2012-06-06.
- ^ "Börje Leander". Olympedia. Retrieved 13 October 2021.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Börje Leander". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2017-07-03.
- ^ a b "Börje Leander". SOK.se (in Swedish). Swedish Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 2016-02-04.
External links
Media related to Börje Leander at Wikimedia Commons
- Börje Leander at the Swedish Football Association (in Swedish)
- Börje Leander national team profile at SvFF (in Swedish) (archived)
- AIK.se stats
- AIK.se profile
- Barje Leander at Olympics.com
- Börje Leander at Olympic.org (archived)
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- 1918 births
- 2003 deaths
- Swedish men's footballers
- Sweden men's international footballers
- Allsvenskan players
- AIK Fotboll players
- Olympic footballers for Sweden
- Olympic gold medalists for Sweden
- Footballers at the 1948 Summer Olympics
- Olympic medalists in football
- Vasalunds IF players
- Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics
- Men's association football midfielders
- People from Avesta Municipality
- Footballers from Dalarna County
- Swedish Olympic medalist stubs
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