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 Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna Norrköping, more commonly known as IFK Norrköping or simply Norrköping, is a Swedish professional football club based in Norrköping. The club is affiliated to Östergötlands Fotbollförbund and play their ...

and capped 53 times for the

national team A national sports team (commonly known as a national team or a national side) is a team that represents a nation, rather than a particular club or region, in an international sport. The term is most commonly associated with team sports, for exam ...

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 Guldbollen (''Golden Ball'') is a Swedish football award given by ''Aftonbladet'' and the Swedish Football Association to the best male Swedish footballer each year. History The award was created by Bengt Liljedahl and between 1946 to 1965 it was ...

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

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 international footballers Swedish ice hockey players Swedish footballers Association football defenders People from Norrköping Sportspeople from Östergötland County