Rolf Björklund (footballer)
Rolf Björklund ( born October 2, 1938) is a Swedish former football player. The defender nicknamed " Tejpen " brought with Malmö FF several national titles and went to the Swedish national team.
Career
Björklund first played in Gyllebo and sterlen, before he in 1953 came to Malmö FF on a friend with whom he worked as an errand boy at Skånska Dagbladet. There he went through the junior level and moved in 1959 to the first team. On 11 May 1960 he made his debut for the club in Allsvenskan and established himself in the episode under coach Nils- Åke Sandell in the root formation of the club. Had the club under its line in the front league field set, stood under the successor of Antonio Durán one of the most successful periods in their history a. In the season 1965 Björklund on the side of Bo Larsson, Ingvar Svahn and Prawitz Öberg won by two points on IF Elfsborg the von Rosen's Cup for the Swedish championship title. Due to its good performance in the course of the season he played himself also in the circle for the national team and made his debut on 31 October of the year at 0-0 draw against Norway in blue and gold dress. As a result, he stayed in the national team and was in the qualification for the 1968 European Championship team regular under coach Orvar Bergmark. Although the team had this surprised to start off with a 2-1 away win at reigning bronze medalist Portugal by a double by Inge Danielsson, in third place but ultimately it was far from a finals appearance.
Also in the club stock power repeated Björklund in the season 1967 championship win, which was crowned by winning the doubles following a 2-0 final win against IFK Norrköping in Svenska Cupen. In the same year he ran on in the 0-3 defeat against Bulgaria for the last time in the National Jersey, according to miss qualifying for the European Championships, he was no longer considered by 13 countries playing in the national team. In his club but you sat still on him, so that he could celebrate his third championship title in the 1970 season. After the season he left after 192 first division matches for the club and worked for several years as player-manager of Trelleborg FF. Later he was responsible for various clubs in the league unterklassigen area.