Börje Tapper (19 May 1922 – 8 April 1981) was a Swedish

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who played as a

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for

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, ...

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, and the Sweden national team. He won four

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for Sweden and was a squad member at the

1950 FIFA World Cup The 1950 FIFA World Cup was the fourth edition of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football championship for senior men's national teams and held in Brazil from 24 June to 16 July 1950. The planned 1942 and 1946 World Cups were ...

Career

Tapper started his playing career at Håkanstorp before moving on to

. He played for the club between 1939 and 1950, when he went to Italy and

. He did not succeed in Italy and when he came home to Sweden, he was not allowed to play in

Allsvenskan Allsvenskan (; en, the All-Swedish, also known as Fotbollsallsvenskan, en, the Football All-Swedish) is a Swedish professional league for men's association football clubs. It was founded in 1924 and is the top tier of the Swedish football lea ...

anymore due to the policy at the time. He is Malmö FF's second best goalscorer ever with 298 goals. He later coached

Lunds BK Lunds BK is a football club from Lund, Sweden founded in 1919. The club currently plays in Division 1 Södra. Despite their relative success Lunds BK has never competed in the Allsvenskan or Superettan, but has played nine seasons in the second ...

Personal life

He is the father of

Staffan Tapper Staffan Lars Anders Tapper (born 10 July 1948) is a Swedish former footballer who played as a midfielder for Malmö FF and the Sweden national team. A full international between 1971 and 1978, he won 36 caps for Sweden and played at the 1974 a ...

Career statistics

International

: ''Scores and results list Sweden's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Tapper goal''.

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tapper, Borje 1922 births 1981 deaths Swedish footballers Sweden international footballers Swedish expatriate footballers Malmö FF players Allsvenskan players 1950 FIFA World Cup players Swedish football managers Lunds BK managers Genoa C.F.C. players Serie A players Expatriate footballers in Italy Association football midfielders Footballers from Malmö