Tore Bertil Gottfrid Keller (4 January 1905 – 15 July 1988) 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 ...

who played as a striker. He was part of the Sweden team that won the bronze medal at the 1924 Summer Olympics. He played 305 matches for

IK Sleipner Idrottsklubben Sleipner is a sports club in Norrköping, Sweden; the main sports are football and ten-pin bowling. It was founded in 1903, and named after the deity Odin's horse Sleipnir from Norse mythology. Currently, the club's senior men's te ...

and scored 152 goals and became the Swedish champion with the club in 1938. Internationally he appeared in the

1934 Events January–February * January 1 – The International Telecommunication Union, a specialist agency of the League of Nations, is established. * January 15 – The 8.0 Nepal–Bihar earthquake strikes Nepal and Bihar with a maxi ...

and 1938 FIFA World Cups. Keller was also a keen bandy,

table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...

and

bowling Bowling is a target sport and recreational activity in which a player rolls a ball toward pins (in pin bowling) or another target (in target bowling). The term ''bowling'' usually refers to pin bowling (most commonly ten-pin bowling), thou ...

player.

Career statistics

International

: ''Scores and results list Sweden's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Keller goal.''

Honours

IK Sleipner * Allsvenskan: 1937–1938 Sweden * Summer Olympics bronze:

1924 Events January * January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after. * January 20– 30 – Kuomintang in China holds ...

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1905 births 1988 deaths Swedish footballers Sweden international footballers 1934 FIFA World Cup players 1938 FIFA World Cup players Olympic bronze medalists for Sweden Olympic footballers of Sweden Footballers at the 1924 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in football Allsvenskan players Medalists at the 1924 Summer Olympics Association football forwards IK Sleipner players Swedish bandy players Swedish male table tennis players Swedish bowling players Sportspeople from Norrköping Footballers from Östergötland County {{Sweden-footy-forward-stub