Oscar Börje Leander (7 March 1918 – 30 October 2003) was a Swedish

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby ...

. He played 249 matches as a

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for

AIK AIK Fotboll (), more commonly known simply as AIK (), an abbreviation for Allmänna Idrottsklubben (meaning ''the public'' or ''general sports club''), is a Swedish football club competing in Allsvenskan, the top flight of Swedish football. The ...

and scored 25 goals, mostly successful penalty kicks. He also played 23 times for the Swedish national team, scoring four goals. He was part of the Swedish Olympic squad that won the gold medal in

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. When

Knut Nordahl Knut Erik Alexander Nordahl (13 January 1920 – 28 October 1984) was a Swedish footballer who played as a midfielder. Career He played for IFK Norrköping and A.S. Roma. He won the gold medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics along with his brothe ...

was injured in the opening match against

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, Leander stepped in as a substitute right-back, and stayed until the final, when Nordahl recovered.

Honours

Sweden * Summer Olympics: 1948

References

External links

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AIK.se stats

* 1918 births 2003 deaths Swedish footballers Sweden international footballers Allsvenskan players AIK Fotboll players Olympic footballers of Sweden Olympic gold medalists for Sweden Footballers at the 1948 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in football Vasalunds IF players Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics Association football midfielders People from Avesta Municipality Sportspeople from Dalarna County {{sweden-footy-midfielder-stub