Börje Leander
Appearance
Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 7 March 1918 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Avesta, Sweden | ||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 30 October 2003 | (aged 85)||||||||||||||||
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 Swedish national team, scoring four goals. He was part of the Swedish Olympic squad that won a gold medal in 1948 Summer Olympics. 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.[2][3]
References
- ^ "Sweden national football team stats". passagen.se (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 2012-06-06.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Börje Leander". SOK.se (in Swedish). Swedish Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 2016-02-04.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Börje Leander.
- {{SvFF player}} template missing ID.
- Börje Leander national team profile at SvFF (in Swedish) (archived)
- AIK.se stats
- AIK.se profile
- Börje Leander at Olympics.com
Categories:
- 1918 births
- 2003 deaths
- Swedish footballers
- Sweden international footballers
- Allsvenskan players
- AIK Fotboll players
- Olympic footballers of 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
- Association football midfielders
- Swedish Olympic medalist stubs
- Swedish football midfielder stubs