SOCCER PLAYER

Bengt Gustavsson

1928 - 2017

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Bengt Olov Emanuel "Julle" Gustavsson (13 January 1928 – 16 February 2017) was a Swedish professional footballer and manager. As player he played as a defender and represented Sweden; he participated in the final of the 1958 FIFA World Cup on home soil, losing out to Brazil, and won national championships with IFK Norrköping. As coach he led Åtvidabergs FF into its golden era at the beginning of the 1970s. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bengt Gustavsson is the 1,356th most popular soccer player (down from 1,158th in 2019), the 459th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 404th in 2019) and the 25th most popular Swedish Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Bengt Gustavsson ranks 1,356 out of 21,273Before him are Stefan Abadzhiev, Dick van Dijk, Patrick O'Connell, Kiril Ivkov, Mariano Martín, and Felipe Melo. After him are Pietro Serantoni, Pavol Molnár, Aníbal Paz, Étienne Mattler, Paul Robinson, and Huh Jung-moo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Bengt Gustavsson ranks 248Before him are Warren Oates, Pal Benko, Alexander Gomelsky, Natalie Zemon Davis, Saw Maung, and Giacomo Biffi. After him are Bob Cousy, Stuart Whitman, Marcel Bozzuffi, Eric Porter, Pernell Roberts, and Irena Veisaitė. Among people deceased in 2017, Bengt Gustavsson ranks 212Before him are Željko Perušić, Seijun Suzuki, A. R. Penck, Colin Groves, Sonny Landham, and William Baumol. After him are Gretel Bergmann, Gustavo Rojo, Katalin Szőke, Charles Robert Jenkins, Roger Ailes, and David Cassidy.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Bengt Gustavsson ranks 459 out of 1,879Before him are Gösta Ekman (1890), Gösta Pettersson (1940), Marika Green (1943), Pehr Kalm (1716), Carl Axel Magnus Lindman (1856), and Victoria Silvstedt (1974). After him are Johan Andreas Murray (1740), Wilhelm Peterson-Berger (1867), Robert Themptander (1844), August Nilsson (1872), Augustin Ehrensvärd (1710), and Victoria Benedictsson (1850).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Sweden

Among soccer players born in Sweden, Bengt Gustavsson ranks 25Before him are Kennet Andersson (1967), Kalle Svensson (1925), Sven Andersson (1907), Knut Nordahl (1920), Björn Nordqvist (1942), and Erik Nilsson (1916). After him are Knut Kroon (1906), Conny Torstensson (1949), Sigge Parling (1930), Sven Tumba (1931), Nils Axelsson (1906), and Roland Sandberg (1946).