Dag Szepanski

Szepanski with the award as top scorer

Dag Szepanski ( born December 25, 1943 in Bromölla ) is a former Swedish football player. The striker, who came to a use in the Swedish national team in 1972, won with Malmö FF in the season 1967, the double of league title and cup in the same year and was top scorer in Allsvenskan.

Career

Szepanski began in 1950 with the football games and played in his youth at Ifö / Bromölla IF. The mid-1960s he moved up in the men's team of the club, which contested the Division 1 second-rate.

There Szepanski was discovered by the person in charge of Malmö FF and 1967, he joined the club from Skåne. In his first season he was top scorer with 22 goals the Allsvenskan and led the club in order to mastery. In the same year the win was in the first edition of Svenska Cupen. After two runner-up with the club he left after the 1969 season the club.

New club Szepanskis was the League rival AIK. The great success but did not set up, only 1972 managed the runner-up behind Åtvidabergs FF. Subsequently, however, he came on October 15, 1972, as part of the qualification for the 1974 World Cup to his only use in the National Jersey. In the 7-0 victory over Malta, he scored in the 57th minute the goal for a 6-0 scoreboard. For the supporters of clubs from Solna he endeared himself by a strong performance in the derby against Djurgårdens IF in the season 1973. In addition to his participation in the strike in a 1-0 intermediate and the 4-0 final score, he managed a truly inspiring goal for intermediate 3-0.

At the beginning of 1974 changed Szepanski professional reasons to Jönköping Södra IF. The club was in the third- highest division, the Division 3, descended. With Szepanski by storm succeeded the immediate resurgence. From 1976, he had two seasons of his career at IF Väster in Gothenburg finish.

During and after the end of his sporting career Szepanski worked as Marketing Director and General Manager at Tetra Pak in Sweden. In 2003, he sat down to rest in Spain, where he wrote occasionally for the Swedish-speaking newspaper Costa Blanca magasinet.

Worth mentioning

The Stockholm amateur to a football team has named after Szepanski. The Club badge Zepanski FC is adorned by a photograph Szepanskis after scoring a goal in the jersey of AIK.

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