Kurt Weckström Explained

Kurt Weckström
Fullname:Kurt Gunnar Weckström
Birth Date:4 December 1911
Birth Place:Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland
Death Place:Helsinki, Finland
Position:Forward
Years1:1929–1931
Clubs1:Vesa
Caps1:
Goals1:
Years2:1931–1934
Clubs2:KIF
Caps2:19
Goals2:4
Years3:1935–1949
Clubs3:HJK
Caps3:129
Goals3:37
Nationalyears1:1931–1943
Nationalteam1:Finland
Nationalcaps1:35
Nationalgoals1:10

Kurt Gunnar Weckström (4 December 1911 – 7 January 1983) was a Finnish footballer. He earned 35 caps for the Finland national football team and was a member of the Finland squad at the 1936 Summer Olympics.[1]

Career

Weckström started his career in the Helsinki working class side Töölön Vesa, playing in the Finnish Workers' Sports Federation (TUL) Championship series. Due to the 1918 Civil War, Finnish football was divided, TUL and the Finnish Football Association (SPL) had their own leagues and the national team was composed of SPL players only.[2]

Weckström won the TUL Championship title in 1930 and was a member of the TUL football team at the 1931 Workers' Summer Olympiad in Vienna. Soon after the Olympiad, he defected to the ″bourgeoisie″ KIF Helsinki, which made him eligible for the national team.[2] Weckström debuted for Finland in October 1931 against Denmark.[3] In the Finland squad at the 1936 Summer Olympics, he was one of the eight former TUL players who had defected to the Finnish Football Association side.[2]

Club honours

1930

1936, 1938

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Kurt Weckström . Olympedia . 27 September 2021.
  2. Book: Syrjäläinen, Antti . 2008 . Miksi siksi loikkariksi? Huippu-urheilijoiden loikkaukset TUL:sta SVUL:oon 1919–1939 . Joensuu . University of Joensuu . 46, 159 . 978-952-21913-7-3 .
  3. Web site: Football PLAYER: Kurt Weckström. European National Football Teams 1872–2017 Database. 10 June 2017.