Nils-Åke Sandell (5 February 1927 – 29 May 1992) was a Swedish

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player and manager.

Club career

Sandell started his playing career in his birth city

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at local club Lunds BK. After a brief period at IFK Malmö he returned to Lund before moving to

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in the 1952 season. After spending 4 years in Malmö Sandell had quite a reputation for being a goalscorer and tried his luck in Italy and SPAL 1907. After his period in Italy Sandell returned to Malmö FF and played one last season there in 1958. Malmoffplayers1955

International career

He played a crucial role in Sweden's triumph at the

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, being the top goal scorer of the tournament with 10 goals in 8 caps, and he was also part of Sweden's squad for the football tournament at the

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, but he did not play in any matches.

Managerial career

After returning from Italy and playing for a couple of games during the 1958 season Sandell were asked to become manager of the club. He managed the club from 1959 to 1963 winning no titles. Sandells manager career continued throughout regional clubs in

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and finished his career at IFK Malmö, nearly managing to promote them to

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 ...

in 1980.

Honours

Sweden *

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bronze medal:

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: 1952–1955 Individual * Nordic Football Championship top scorer: 1952–1955

References

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