Bengt Lindskog (25 February 1933 – 27 January 2008) was a Swedish

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who played at both professional and international levels, as a

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Career

Club career

Born in

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, Lindskog played club football in Sweden and Italy for

Helsingborg Helsingborg (, , , ) is a city and the seat of Helsingborg Municipality, Scania (Skåne), Sweden. It is the second-largest city in Scania (after Malmö) and ninth-largest in Sweden, with a population of 113,816 (2020). Helsingborg is the cent ...

Malmö FF Malmö Fotbollförening, commonly known as Malmö FF, Malmö, or MFF, is a professional football club and the most successful football club in Sweden in terms of trophies won. Formed in 1910 and affiliated with the Scania Football Association, ...

Udinese Udinese Calcio, commonly referred to as Udinese, is a professional Italian football club based in Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, that currently plays in Serie A. It was founded on 30 November 1896 as a sports club, and on 5 July 1911 as a fo ...

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and

IFK Malmö Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna Malmö, more commonly known as IFK Malmö, is a Swedish sports club with several departments, located in Malmö. The club was founded on 23 April 1899. The football department of IFK Malmö is one of the oldest footb ...

International career

Lindskog earned 14 caps for the Swedish national team between 1955 and 1965. Before the 1958 World Cup, which was held on home soil in Sweden, Lindskog transferred from Udinese to Inter; his new contract did not allow him to participate in the tournament. He did, however, participate in qualifying matches for the 1966 World Cup.

References

1933 births 2008 deaths Swedish footballers Sweden international footballers Swedish expatriate footballers Serie A players Serie B players Allsvenskan players Helsingborgs IF players Udinese Calcio players Inter Milan players Calcio Lecco 1912 players Malmö FF players Expatriate footballers in Italy Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Italy Association football midfielders {{Sweden-footy-midfielder-stub