Holger Hansson

Holger Valdemar Hansson ( born January 26, 1927 in Gothenburg, † January 17, 2014 ) was a Swedish football player and coach. He denied 1952-1956 nine caps for the Swedish national team, with whom he participated in the 1952 Olympics.

Career

Hansson began playing football at BK Renitz, whom he left in the direction of IFK Gothenburg. There he made ​​his debut in the season 1946/47, for the club in Allsvenskan, where he ran aground on the side of Gunnar Gren and Rune Emanuelsson among others. In 1950 he went to the club from the second division, managed by the team but the direct resurgence. The promoted placed on the fourth place in the table and Hansson became the A-National player, having made ​​its debut in 1948 as the B national team at a meeting with a Danish selection in the national jersey. In May, he ran a 0-0 draw against the Netherlands for the first time, selected on, then he took this at the football competition of the 1952 Olympic Games in part. Until retirement in the semifinal against the Golden Eleven of the Hungarian national team, he came in all three games for use, in a 2-0 victory gained with goals from Rydell and Ingvar Gösta Löfgren the bronze medal match against the German national amateur replaced him Olle Åhlund.

While Hansson with the club reüssierte in the mid table area, he also moved out of the focus of the national team and was infrequently used. In 1956 he played his last international match, parallel decided by the Association in advance of taking place in their own country World Cup finals in 1958, opposed to the current practice professional players - this was particularly in Italy active players like Bengt Gustavsson, Nils Liedholm or Lennart Skoglund - use in the national team, which opportunities for further inserts reduced. With a tapered end of the decade team but he won his first title, driven by the later scorer Bertil Johansson he took in the season 1957/58 the von Rosen's Cup for the Swedish champions. Two years earlier he had received a personal award, as it the Göteborgs- Tidningen was named the best player of West Sweden.

After the end of his playing career with the completion of the 1960 season Hansson became a coach. As the successor of the interim solution Gunnar Gren, who replaced during the season Josef straw, he joined IFK Göteborg in directly from the field to the dugout. After two seasons in which he led the team on each of the third place, he handed the office to Yngve Brodd on. 1965-1967 and 1970-1972, he oversaw the local rivals GAIS. In 1974 he took over the post at his old club IFK, who was now relegated to the second division. Once the targeted re-emergence was clearly missed in fifth, replaced him after just one season Nils Berghamn. Under his leadership, the team returned two years later returned to the Allsvenskan.