Reine Feldt (1945–1986) was a Swedish footballer and journalist that played football for

Utsiktens BK The Utsiktens BK is a Swedish football club located in Västra Frölunda, near Gothenburg. Background Since their foundation in 1935 Utsiktens BK has participated mainly in the middle and lower divisions of the Swedish football league system. ...

and

IFK Göteborg Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna Göteborg (officially IFK Göteborg Fotboll), commonly known as IFK Göteborg, IFK (especially locally) or simply Göteborg, is a Swedish professional football club based in Gothenburg. Founded in 1904, it is the ...

Career

Felt started his senior career in

and joined

in 1965. He made a total of 355 senior appearances for

and was the captain of the

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 ...

winning team of 1969. He ended his career in 1975.

Personal life

Feldt also worked as a journalist at

Arbetet ''Arbetet'' (Swedish: ''The Labour'') was a Swedish-language social democrat newspaper published in Malmö, Sweden, between 1887 and 2000. History and profile ''Arbetet'' was first published in Malmö on 6 August 1887. Axel Danielsson was the f ...

. Feldt was secretly homosexual and died of

AIDS Human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is a spectrum of conditions caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a retrovirus. Following initial infection an individual m ...

in 1986 as one of the first victims in Sweden.

Honours

Club

;

: *

(1): 1969

Individual

* Årets ärkeängel (1): 1973

References

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