Agne Simonsson

Agne Simonsson (* October 19, 1935 in Gothenburg, Sweden) is a former football player. The striker, who played some of his playing career in Spain, participated with the Swedish national team at the World Cup 1958. Later he worked as a trainer and once won the From Rosen's Cup for the Swedish national champion.

Career

Simonsson started his career at Örgryte IS. With the multiple Swedish champion he succeeded in 1955 as the winner of the Season Division 3 Västra Götaland promotion to the second division. After a fifth place in the first season he reached with the club in 1957 season victory in Division 2 Västra Götaland, after two defeats against Motala AIF in the promotion round, however, the rise in the Allsvenskan was missed. Nevertheless, he played in parallel in the circle of the national team, in which he came as a second division player on October 13 of the year for his debut in a 5-2 win against Norway and as a two time scorer addition to the other goal scorers Gösta Sandberg, Gunnar Gren and Jan Ekström shone. As a result, he established himself in the national jersey and belonged to the squad at the World Championships in 1958. As a regular player, he played five of the six tournament matches for the team, with whom he moved to the final. In the 2:5 - final defeat against Brazil, he scored his fourth Turniertor with the goal to 2:4 standings.

At the end of the year Simonsson repeated with Örgryte IS the relay victory. With two wins against Landskrona BoIS succeeded this time, the rise in the excellence. In the Erstligaspielzeit 1959, he led the team with eleven goals this season on the side of center forward Rune Börjesson, the scorer, as newly promoted to fourth place in the table. Also on the international stage he knew to persuade and scored in a 3-2 away victory of the Swedish national team at Wembley against England team - the second home loss to a continental European team - two goals and prepared the third, scored by Bengt Salomonsson gate in front. Due to these achievements he received at the end of the Guldbollen as Sweden's Footballer of the Year.

Simonsson had made ​​an international name and changed in the summer of 1960 to Spain to Real Madrid. There he could not displace the attacker to Alfredo Di Stéfano and was awarded after a few uses for a season at Real Sociedad. Here he was often used, but decided in 1963 to return to Sweden.

At his old club Örgryte IS Simonsson showed his old Torgefahr and belonged in the season 1965 to the three most accurate players in the Allsvenskan. In the following year he succeeded before he was only surpassed in the season 1967 by Dag Szepanski Malmö FF. In the same year he finished after 51 international matches in which he scored 27 goals, his international career. The following year, he scored eight goals and had to play with the club as Table the transition into the second division. As Season Winner Division 2 Norra Götaland and the loss -spot free survive the promotion round, he managed the club straight back rise, before he short time later his active career ended.

Simonsson took over after the end of his active player career in 1971 as coach at Örgryte IS, which he held until the following year. Between 1977 and 1982, he supervised the Gothenburg club BK Hacken before he again ÖIS took over. After he had only occupied the eighth or ninth in the first two years, he led the team to players like Sören Börjesson Jan Hellström and Glenn Martin Dahl in the 1985 season in third place in the championship round. After two victories over Kalmar FF in the semi-finals he met with the Association on local rivals IFK Göteborg, who was defeated after a 4-2 first-leg win in spite of a 2:3 defeat in the return leg. He was the success with the club not confirm the European Cup of Champions 1986/87 failed the team in the first round on GDR representatives BFC Dynamo and finished second in the league only ninth. Therefore, it was after the end of the season replaced by Bob Houghton.

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