Knut Nordahl Explained

Knut Nordahl
Fullname:Knut Erik Alexander Nordahl
Birth Date:13 January 1920
Birth Place:Hörnefors, Sweden
Death Place:Föllinge, Sweden
Position:Midfielder
Years1:1941–1949
Years2:1950–1952
Years3:1952–1953
Clubs1:IFK Norrköping
Clubs2:A.S. Roma
Clubs3:Degerfors IF
Caps2:61
Goals2:1
Nationalyears1:1945–1950
Nationalteam1:Sweden[1]
Nationalcaps1:26
Nationalgoals1:1

Knut Erik Alexander Nordahl (13 January 1920 – 28 October 1984) was a Swedish footballer who played as a midfielder.

Career

Nordahl played for IFK Norrköping and A.S. Roma.[2] He won the gold medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics along with his brothers Bertil and Gunnar Nordahl.[3] The two went to Italy after the Olympics (Bertil to Atalanta B.C. and Gunnar to A.C. Milan) and, due to playing in a professional football league while Swedish football was all amateur, they were not called to the 1950 FIFA World Cup.[4] Knut stayed in Sweden and was called to the tournament. After the World Cup, he was finally transferred to Italy, when he played for A.S. Roma. He was capped 26 times for the Sweden men's national football team between 1945 and 1950.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sweden men's national football team stats . sv . passagen.se . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120606000450/http://hem.passagen.se/fotbollslandslaget/statistiktest.htm . 2012-06-06 .
  2. Web site: Knut Nordahl. Enciclopedia del Calcio. it. 31 March 2017. dead. https://archive.today/20120730010506/http://www.enciclopediadelcalcio.com/NordhalK.html. 30 July 2012.
  3. Web site: Knut Nordahl . Olympedia . 13 October 2021.
  4. http://www.trivela.com/Conteudo.aspx?secao=31&id=20418 "Nordahl: 'Il pompiere d'oro', André Melsohn Dayan, Trivela.com