Svenska herrlandslaget i fotboll 28 maj 1961 mot Schweiz

Åke "Bajdoff" Johansson (19 March 1928 – 21 December 2014) was a

Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

player. Johansson played as a center half in IFK Norrköping and capped 53 times for the national team between 1955 and 1965. With IFK Norrköping he owns the club record with 321 appearances.1957: Bajdoff Johansson, IFK Norrköping
aftonbladet.se, retrieved 2013-06-11 (Swedish) Johansson became Swedish champion with his club 6 times (1952, 1956, 1957, 1960, 1962 and 1963), won Guldbollen 1957Sweden - Footballer of the Year (Guldbollen)
RSSSF.com, retrieved 2013-06-11. and was a member of the silver winning team in

1958 FIFA World Cup The 1958 FIFA World Cup was the sixth FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial football tournament for men's senior national teams, and was played in Sweden from 8 to 29 June 1958. It was the first FIFA World Cup to be played in a Nordic country. Brazil be ...

but did not appear in the final. He also capped one time for the national team in ice hockey. He died after a brief illness, on 21 December 2014.

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More about Åke Johansson by Tomas Junglander(Swedish)
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Johansson, Aake 1928 births 1958 FIFA World Cup players 2014 deaths Allsvenskan players IFK Norrköping players Sweden men's international footballers Swedish ice hockey players Swedish men's footballers Men's association football defenders Footballers from Norrköping