Sylve Boris Bengtsson (2 July 1930 – 30 April 2005) was a Swedish
association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
forward.
[Sylve Bengtsson]
Swedish Olympic Committee
Career
Bengtsson started his career in
Halmstads BK
Halmstads Bollklubb, also known simply as Halmstad () or (especially locally) HBK or Bollklubben, is a Swedish football club located in Halmstad in the county of Halland. The club, formed 7 February 1914 and approved membership in the Swedish ...
at the age of 17 in 1947 against
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 name ...
, a 0–5 defeat. In 1948 as Halmstads BK was relegated from
Allsvenskan Sylve left for ''
Hälsingborgs IF'' (now Helsingborgs IF); during his time in Hälsingborg he made his first national team appearance for
Sweden; he was later part of the Swedish national team that won bronze medal in the
1952 Summer Olympics
The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad ( fi, XV olympiadin kisat; sv, Den XV olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952 ( sv, Helsin ...
in Helsinki after defeating West Germany.
Sylve Bengtsson
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After the Summer Olympics he returned to Halmstads BK and helped the club back up in Allsvenskan, in season Allsvenskan 1954-55, 1954–55 he won the Stora Silvret with the club and in the following season he became the top goalscorer with 22 goals. Halmstads BK was relegated yet again in 1959 and in 1961 Sylve left for Gnosjö IF where he played for three seasons before returning to Allsvenskan and ''Hälsingborgs IF'' to play between 1964 and 1965.
In 1967, he returned to Halmstads BK as a playing coach and in 1968 he became manager for Laholms FK, shortly south of Halmstad, he then returned to Halmstads BK as teamleader; he made a short time as manager yet again for the club during the summer of 1971 and led the club back to Allsvenskan.
Aside from playing football he also worked as a baker and confectioner.
Achievements
Club
Halmstads BK
* Allsvenskan: runners-up Allsvenskan 1954–55, 1954–55
International
Sweden
* Summer Olympics third place: Football at the 1952 Summer Olympics, 1952
Individual
* Allsvenskan top goalscorer: 1955–1956
References
External links
Halmstads BK article
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1930 births
2005 deaths
Men's association football forwards
Halmstads BK players
Helsingborgs IF players
Allsvenskan players
Swedish men's footballers
Sweden men's international footballers
Olympic footballers for Sweden
Footballers at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for Sweden
Bakers
Swedish football managers
Halmstads BK managers
Olympic medalists in football
Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Footballers from Halmstad