Karl Gösta Herbert "Lövet" Löfgren (29 August 1923 – 5 September 2006) was a Swedish

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

player who won a bronze medal at the

1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics (, ), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad (, ) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952, were an international multi-sport event held from 19 July to 3 August 1952 in Helsinki, Finland. After Japan declared in ...

and a silver medal at the

1958 FIFA World Cup The 1958 FIFA World Cup was the 6th FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial football tournament for men's senior national teams. It was played in Sweden from 8 to 29 June 1958. It was the first and only FIFA World Cup to be played in a Nordic country. Br ...

. Between 1951 and 1961, he played 40 international matches and scored 12 goals.Gösta Löfgren
Swedish Olympic Committee Gösta played for Motala AIF and took the team to

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in 1957. In 1960, he began playing for

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and won the Swedish National Championship. He later coached

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* http://wwwc.aftonbladet.se/sport/guldbollen/1955.html * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lofgren, Gosta 1923 births 2006 deaths Swedish men's footballers Sweden men's international footballers Footballers at the 1952 Summer Olympics 1958 FIFA World Cup players Olympic bronze medalists for Sweden Olympic footballers for Sweden IFK Norrköping players Swedish football managers IFK Norrköping managers Olympic medalists in football Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics Men's association football forwards Sportspeople from Motala Footballers from Östergötland County 20th-century Swedish sportsmen Motala AIF players