Jan Ekström

January Ekström ( born October 11, 1937) is a former Swedish football player. The offensive player ran 1956-1957 on five times for the Swedish national team.

Career

Ekström debuted in 1955 as a junior player in the first team Malmö FF in Allsvenskan. After he had helped by good performance in the season 1955/56, the runner-up, nominated the selection committee of the national team - the line at the time the MFF- chairman Eric Persson was for - him in May 1956 for a match against the England team as a replacement for injured Nils -Åke Sandell. At 0-0 in the Råsunda he made his debut as a 18 -year-old on the side of Kalle Svensson, Sven Axbom, Gösta Sandberg, Bengt Lindskog and Gösta Löfgren in the National Jersey.

While Ekström established himself with the club at the top table area, he lived first in parallel in the squad for the national team. In his second game he scored countries on the occasion of the 3-1 success over the Finnish national selection his first international goal. After he came in November 1957 its fifth international duty, he belonged to the preliminary squad of the selection committee for the World Cup 1958. Ultimately, he and Torbjörn Jonsson been withdrawn from the squad and replaced by a third goalkeeper and an experienced professional players.

After the end of the season In 1960, Ekström Malmö FF and moved along with his teammates Lennart " Lill- kick" Svensson for third division side IFK Hässleholm, with whom he missed promotion to the second division. He then joined the second division Sandvikens IF, with whom he played for the ascent to the Allsvenskan. By the end of the season the season of 1962, the club returned with IFK Eskilstuna a duel for the season victory, only on the final day outperformed the competitor the club from Gastrikland, so despite the 37 of a possible 44 points as the runner- missing out on promotion.

1964 returned Ekström back to Malmö FF. There Lars Granström and Bo Larsson, however, had become the key places in the storm occupied, so that he dodged to other playing positions. In 1966 he finished after a total of 222 games for the men's team his playing career at the club from Scania. Later he worked as a trainer in the lower league range Harlösa IF, Fram BK, BK Flagg, Kulladals FF and barricades, as well as a youth coach at Malmö FF. He was also responsible for " MFF: s Guldlag ", the former team of the club.

Ekstrom worked full-time as an electrician.