Prawitz Öberg
Prawitz Öberg ( born November 16, 1930 in Gislöv; † November 4, 1995 in Västra Skrävlinge ) was a Swedish football player. The defender and midfielder, who was vice-champion with the Swedish national team without Stakes, won with Malmö FF once the Swedish championship title.
Career
Oberg played in youth at Trelleborg FF. There, however, he did not make the leap into the competition team, so he left the club at the age of 19 years and moved to unterklassig antretenden Gislöv IF. Here he was an immediate success and stood out from the team, so that after a year, the higher class antretenden Trelleborg FF and IFK Trelleborg vying for his services. After he had chosen the latter, he was the second division promoted in the season 1951/52, one of the performers.
Before the start of season 1952/53, Öberg joined Malmö FF in the Allsvenskan. While the team to Egon Jönsson, Arne Månsson, Nils- Åke Sandell and Henry Thill mountain at the end of the season secured the Von Rosen's Cup for the Swedish championship, a game used to missing him to be awarded with a gold medal. First, he played on the left wing, partly also on the offensive. After the departure of Arne Månssons in the summer of 1955, he inherited it on the left back position. There he established himself as a regular player and came to the fore of the selection committee ( Uttagningskommittén ) for the Swedish national team. In October 1957, he debuted on the side of Orvar Bergmark, Sigvard Parling, Gunnar Gren and Agne Simonsson in a 5-2 victory over Norway in the national jersey and became the team regular in the squad. Also for the 1958 World Cup in their own country nominated him those responsible alongside his teammates goals Svensson, during the tournament, the two did not come, however, to use.
In the meantime, moved back to left midfield, Oberg had the early 1960s, its best days as a player. The undisputed master players in the club and the national team, he was in 1962 awarded the Guldbollen as a Swedish footballer of the year. Had he missed with the national team to qualify for the 1962 FIFA World Cup, he reached with it the elimination round of the European Championship 1964. Coached by Lennart Nyman missed the team in May 1964 in the quarter -final against the USSR to participate in the final round. In October of that year he played during a 3-3 draw against the Polish national team its 26th and last international match, which he crowned his fifth international goal.
Was Öberg twelve years previously remained almost denied the champion medal, he won under the leadership of coach Antonio Durán on the side of Ingvar Svahn, Krister Kristensson and Bo Larsson for his playing career ended the championship. As a player, a coach, he took over Gunnarstorps IF and reached the second division at the end of the season 1966, the promotion round to the Allsvenskan, failed with the team but behind Hammarby IF and IFK Holmsund. Later he trained Lunds BK, Anderslöv BoIK, Trelleborg FF, Malmö BI and Limhamns IF.
Öberg was diagnosed with bone cancer and succumbed to the ailment shortly before his retirement in the fall of 1995.