Lars Granström

Lars " Lasse " Granström (* December 8, 1942 ) is a former Swedish football player. The striker, who was an international match for the Swedish national team in 1965, played his career in Sweden and Germany.

Career

Granström grew up in Helsingborg, where he began playing football at Stattena IF. At the age of 14 he moved with his family to Malmö. In a tournament of school teams he fell to the charge of Malmö FF, which brought him into their youth department. On the side of Bo Larsson he played in the attack of the youth team of the club and took his leave early for higher tasks. On 11 May 1960 he made ​​his debut for the men's team in the Allsvenskan - at the age of 17 years and 145 days as at that time the youngest player in the club's history. Four days later, he was wearing for the first time in the club 's top scorer in the Swedish House of Lords a.

Initially Granström still played in parallel in the youth team. In his debut season in the Swedish Elite series, he took the young Swedish championship title. Soon, however, he established himself in the men's team. Under coach Antonio Durán he won at the side of Ingvar Svahn, Prawitz Öberg, Rolf Eriksson Bosse Larsson and Jan Ekström in the season 1965 Von Rosen's Cup for the Swedish national champion. In particular, the role of the preparer for Larsson came to him, like two years before the title of the scorer of the Allsvenskan secured. He played himself into the notebook of coach Lennart Nyman. As part of the qualification for the World Cup 1966, he made ​​his debut on November 7, 1965 at the jersey selection. Although he scored twice as left the pitch in the 5-0 win over the Cypriot National Team, this was his last appearance in the National Jersey. The selection team had missed in their group behind Germany the qualification.

Granström and his strike partner Larsson had made international attention. The Dutch club FC Groningen showed interest in signing the two strikers, but there were no concrete negotiations. So they exchanged in the summer of 1966 at various clubs in Germany: Larsson landed at VfB Stuttgart, Granström signed a two -year contract at the Baden-Württemberg rivals Karlsruher SC. Abroad, however, the offensive player was nothing but headaches and barely came over the role of the banking oppressor addition. After three matches in the Bundesliga, he returned after a season in Sweden.

Granström ran again for his former club Malmö FF. On the side of Krister Kristensson, Dag Szepanski and Bertil Elmstedt he helped the club in the second half of the season 1967 on the re- championship, but was not excellent champion team. The reinforced with players like Staffan Tapper or Roland Andersson team he belonged in the years to continue to the permanent employees and celebrated in 1970 and 1971 his second respectively third Swedish championship title. After the end of the season 1971 Granström left after a total of 359 games for the club Malmö FF. At Trelleborg FF, which was temporarily coached by his former teammate Rolf Björklund, he trailed off his career.

Parallel to his footballer career Granström began his full-time career with the Swedish company Tetra Pak. There he rose to become head of the personnel department in Sweden, before he retired at the age of 60 years. He continued to be the sports connected, although it is now mostly played tennis in his spare time.