Sonny Johansson
Sonny Johansson ( born October 17, 1948) is a former Swedish football player. After the end of his active career was the striker who aground three times for the Swedish national team, for a time as a coach.
Career
Johansson began playing football at BK Kendora. From there he moved to Landskrona BoIS in the second class Division 2 Södra Götaland. With the club he reached the end of the season 1970 as the season winner ahead of Helsingborgs IF the promotion round in which the team after a win against Sandvikens IF and draw against IFK Luleå and Skövde AIK as a table first ascended in the Allsvenskan. In the promotion round he joined as a scorer in appearance.
In the Swedish Elite Series Johansson is established immediately as a regular scorer and led the team in the season in 1971 with nine goals as the third top scorer in the sixth. In the summer of the following year he reached Landskrona BoIS on the side of Roger Karlsson, Claes Cronqvist, Torbjörn Lindström and Dan Brzokoupil the cup final against IFK Norrköping, according to the goals by Cronqvist and the two -goal Lindström by a 3-2 victory extension was decided and led to the first title in the club's history. In the subsequent European Cup Winners' Cup 1972/73 the team failed despite a goal from Christer Lindgren fter a 1-0 win and a 0-3 defeat in the first round of Rapid Bucharest.
In the following years, Johansson placed in the front area of the scoresheet. In the seasons 1974 and 1976 he reached the club in fourth as each the best to date results of the club's history. He presented in 1974 with 16 goals this season to a personal record. However, it took until 1977 before he was first taken into account by national coach Georg Ericson in the national team. On June 15 of that year he made his debut in the 1-2 defeat against the Danish national team at the side of Olle Nordin by storm. At the next international match on July 20 against Iceland he succeeded in the 1-0 success of game-winning hit.
Over Johansson's active career has been reported interest from several European clubs such as Hamburger SV, Grasshoppers Zurich, Fortuna Cologne, Bosch, Twente and Royal Daring in AZ'67 he completed a trial. Ultimately, no change came into being abroad, so he was one of the most successful scorers in the Allsvenskan in the 1970s. His career up to the end of Landskrona BoIS played during 17 seasons, 637 games represent a club record, he is also with 309 goals scored second best scorer.
In 1997, Johansson the coach of his longtime club, which took now in its third-tier Division 2 Södra Götaland. After promotion to the second division at the end of the season he was until 1999 in office. Later he took over the coaching job at his home unterklassig antretenden BK Kendora.