Tore Cervin

Goals Cervin ( born August 2, 1950 in Malmö) is a former Swedish football player. The striker, who with Malmö FF won the Swedish national champion twice, ran four times for the Swedish national team. The European Cup finalist in 1979 is now working as a youth coach.

Career

Cervin began playing football at the club until the age of twenty, when he was taken to the training of siebtklassig antretenden Malmö club BK Lydia of friends. After he had scored six goals in a game for the second team, he was taken into the first team. There, too, he shone as a regular goal scorer, so that the first division side Malmö FF was aware of him.

1972 Cervin moved to MFF in the Allsvenskan. At his Erstligadebüt against the Stockholm club Djurgårdens IF he scored the game -winning goal. After the English coach Bob Houghton took over the management of the team, the club returned to the top flight of the league. 1974 and 1975 won Cervin with Malmö FF twice in a row the championship. In addition, he placed himself in the season in 1975 with 20 goals this season as the best club of internal scorer in second place scorer behind January Mattsson of Östers IF. Consequently coach Georg Ericson appointed him to the national team. In the 0-0 draw against Denmark on 25 September 1975 he made his debut in the Swedish National Jersey, but could not prevail against the regulars in the storm Thomas Sjöberg and Ralf Edström in the sequence.

After the runner-up in the following year Malmo FF leveled the playing time in 1977 once again at the top of the Allsvenskan. Since Cervin not one of the eleven players with most inserts season, he missed the distinction of being national champion. Probably the biggest success of his career succeeded in the European Cup of Champions 1978/79, when the team matches, as Roland Andersson, Staffan Tapper, Robert Prytz, Ingemar Erlandsson and Jan -Olov Kinnvall after beating AS Monaco, Dynamo Kiew, Wisla Krakow and FK Austria Wien moved into the final of the national champion trophy. 57,000 spectators at the Olympic Stadium in Munich, the team defeated the English representatives Nottingham Forest with a goal by Trevor Francis 0:1.

At the end of the season 1980 Cervin left after 258 games Malmö FF and joined the North American Soccer League. On the side of players like José Velásquez, Bruce Wilson and Jomo Sono, he ran to a season for Toronto Blizzard. Then he returned as player-coach for Limhamns IF in Sweden. In 1984 he returned with Helsingborgs IF in the higher-class football back, in the two seasons he was injured but infrequently used, and then ended his active career.

Later Cervin returned as a youth coach for his old club Malmö FF. With the supervised together with Anders Palmér U-16 team of the club, he won the 2007 Swedish championship title. A year later, the team once again to the final one, losing to the young IFK Norrköping.