Olle Olsson (born 1 June 1948 in

Lund Lund (, , ) is a city in the southern Swedish provinces of Sweden, province of Scania, across the Øresund, Öresund strait from Copenhagen. The town had 91,940 inhabitants out of a municipal total of 121,510 . It is the seat of Lund Municipali ...

, Sweden) is a former Swedish

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the g ...

player and handball coach. In 1972 he was part of the Swedish team which finished seventh in the Olympic tournament. He played four matches and scored two goals.

Club career

Olle Olsson started playing handball at the age of 12 in

Lugi HF Lugi HF is a handball team from Lund, Sweden. Both the men's and women's teams play in the top division in 2021-22, Handbollsligan and Svensk handbollselit respectively. Sports Hall information *Name: – Sparbanken Skåne Arena *City: – ...

in Lund. It was also here he started his career in 1964 when he was only 16 years old. Lugi was at that time the swedish 2nd division, the second highest level in Sweden. The same year Lugi was promoted to the highest tier, Allsvenskan, and thus Olle Olsson made his top flight debut the next year. In 1970 he was in military service, and therefore he played a single year at

IF Saab Idrottsföreningen Saab was a Swedish sports club from Linköping, Östergötland County founded in 1941 by people working at Saab and most known for its association football and handball teams.http://www.bolletinen.se/sfs/allsvenskan/grundades. ...

, only to return to Lugi HF. He play a total of 136 matches, scoring 523 goals. In 1975 he stopped playing at Lugi to study at the

Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences The Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences ( sv, Gymnastik- och idrottshögskolan, GIH) in Stockholm is a Sweden, Swedish institution offering higher education in the fields of teaching profession in Physical Education, Sports coaching and Pr ...

in Stockholm. Therefore he started playing for the Stockholm club AIK, where he was a playing manager. He played for AIK for 5 years, while he was studying. In 1980 he retired as player to coach full time.https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/6887571

National team

Olsson played for the Swedish national team for 10 years between 1967 and 1977, where he represented Sweden at the

1972 Summer Olympics The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and commonly known as Munich 1972 (german: München 1972), was an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972. ...

in Münich and the 1974 World Cup in East Germany.

Coaching career

Olsson started coaching as a player-coach at AIK, where he was until 1980. AIK closed the handball department that year, which ended his tenure. He moved on to IFK Kristianstad where he was the coach from 1980 to 1982. In 1982 he returned to coach his childhood club

, where he was the coach for 8 years.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Olsson, Olle 1948 births Living people Swedish male handball players Olympic handball players for Sweden Handball players at the 1972 Summer Olympics Swedish handball coaches Handball coaches of international teams