Gre-No-Li

The acronym Gre -No- Li stands for the three Swedish football player Gunnar Gren, Gunnar Nordahl and Nils Liedholm, in the Swedish national team and AC Milan were a feared trio in the 1950s.

The three players led coached by Rudolf Kock Swedish selection in 1948 to the gold medal in the football tournament of the Summer Olympic Games in London. In the final at Wembley against Yugoslavia, the trio all three goals for a 3-1 win.

In 1949, the three Swedes were taken from Italian giants AC Milan under contract. In the season 1950/51 Milan won the Italian league title under the Hungarian coach Lajos Czeizler. The Gre -No- Li made ​​56 of the 107 gates of Milan. Nordahl was with 34 hits on top scorer.

In 1953, Gunnar Gren joined Fiorentina. Liedholm and Nordahl led AC Milan in 1954/55 once again the Scudetto. After Nordahl in 1956 was changed to AS Roma, won Liedholm 1956/57 and 1958/59 Milan with his championship title number three and four.

Gunnar Nordahl was a total of five times top scorer in Italy's top flight and is with 255 hits behind Silvio Piola and Francesco Totti on third in the all-time scorers list of series A. With AC Milan he is between 1949 /50 and 1954/55 with 221 hits successful shooter in the club's history. Liedholm was for a long time with 394 games of the foreigner with the most appearances for Milan. In 2009, he was replaced by Clarence Seedorf, who played 432 games.

Gunnar Nordahl

Nils Liedholm