Ronney Pettersson (26 April 1940 – 26 September 2022) was a Swedish

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who played as a

goalkeeper In many team sports which involve scoring goals, the goalkeeper (sometimes termed goaltender, netminder, GK, goalie or keeper) is a designated player charged with directly preventing the opposing team from scoring by blocking or intercepting o ...

Career

Pettersson joined

Djurgårdens IF Djurgårdens Idrottsförening, commonly known simply as Djurgårdens IF, Djurgården (), and (especially locally) Djurgår'n (), Dif or DIF – is a Swedish sports association with several sections, located in Stockholm. Name The club is named ...

from

IFK Skövde IFK Skövde is a Swedish handball club from the city of Skövde, whose roots can be traced back to 1907. The current organization, however, got its shape through a reorganization in 1991. The team has been in the Handbollsligan (Swedish highes ...

in 1958 and made his debut in 1962 for

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 ...

. He became champion with the team in 1966. He also made 17 appearances in the Sweden national team and was a part of the squad in the

1970 FIFA World Cup The 1970 FIFA World Cup was the ninth edition of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international Association football, football championship for List of men's national association football teams, men's senior national teams. Held from 31 May t ...

Personal life and death

Pettersson died on 26 September 2022, at the age of 82.

Honours

Djurgårdens IF *

:http://www.difarkivet.se/dif_sm_guld_seniorer.pdf 1966

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pettersson, Ronney 1940 births 2022 deaths Swedish men's footballers Men's association football goalkeepers Sweden men's international footballers 1970 FIFA World Cup players Allsvenskan players Djurgårdens IF Fotboll players