Bo "Bosse" Johansson (born 28 November 1942) is a Swedish former

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player and current football coach.

Biography

Johansson was a player for fourteen years with

Kalmar FF Kalmar Fotbollförening, more commonly known as Kalmar FF, is a Swedish professional football club based in Kalmar. The club is affiliated to Smålands Fotbollförbund and play their home games at Guldfågeln Arena. Formed on 15 June 1910, the cl ...

and

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, though he did not win any trophies as a player. In 1977, he was appointed coach for his former club of Kalmar FF, a job he held for two years before switching to local rivals Öster IF. He would remain there for three years, leading Östers IF to back-to-back Swedish

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championships in 1980 and 1981. Bo Johansson went on to coach

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club FK Jerv,

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club Panionios NFC, and started an international career coaching the Iceland national team. He would have to wait 13 years for his next title, until 1994 when he led Danish team

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to the national

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championship. In 1996, he was appointed Danish national team coach, taking over from

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who had managed the Danish team to the 1992 European Championship (Euro 1992) title, but had subsequently suffered lacklustre results. Bo Johansson presented a more offensive way of playing and he was successful in revitalising the Danish team, leading it to the

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, which was to become one of the heights in Danish football. Despite a loss in the group stage to later tournament winners

, Denmark managed to go through to the final 16 where they put an attractive style of football on display, beating

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4-1 before losing out 2-3 in the quarter-final to the later silver medalists from

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. "Bosse" couldn't live up to the result and play at the 1998 World Cup two years later at the

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in the

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and

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. The Danish team lost all the games in the group stage and was eliminated. In 1999, Bo Johansson had made public that he wouldn't continue with the team after the tournament but he always remained popular. Following the Danish exit he was applauded off the pitch by the Danish fans. Totally, he coached the Danish national team throughout 40 matches, resulting in 17 victories, nine draws and 14 losses. In 2003, he was appointed coach for the Swedish club

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, he retired in 2004. He made a comeback in 2005, leading Molde F.K. to victory in the

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. However, the club had a disappointing season in the league, and Johansson quit after the season. 2010, he returned to coaching as assisting coach in the Swedish club Åtvidaberg.

Honours

Östers IF *

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, 1981 Silkeborg IF *

: 1994 Molde FK *

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External links

Danish national team statistics

Philosophy
{{DEFAULTSORT:Johansson, Bo 1942 births Living people Swedish footballers Swedish football managers Expatriate football managers in Denmark 1998 FIFA World Cup managers UEFA Euro 2000 managers Kalmar FF managers Östers IF managers Panionios F.C. managers Swedish expatriate football managers Expatriate football managers in Iceland Iceland national football team managers Silkeborg IF managers Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi managers Denmark national football team managers IFK Göteborg managers Molde FK managers Expatriate football managers in Greece Expatriate football managers in Finland Expatriate football managers in Norway Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Norway Association footballers not categorized by position FK Jerv managers People from Kalmar Sportspeople from Kalmar County