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Gösta Löfgren

1923 - 2006

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Karl Gösta Herbert "Lövet" Löfgren (29 August 1923 – 5 September 2006) was a Swedish association football player who won a bronze medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics and a silver medal at the 1958 FIFA World Cup. Between 1951 and 1961, he played 40 international matches and scored 12 goals. Gösta played for Motala AIF and took the team to Allsvenskan in 1957. In 1960, he began playing for IFK Norrköping and won the Swedish National Championship. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gösta Löfgren is the 3,274th most popular soccer player (down from 2,747th in 2019), the 821st most popular biography from Sweden (down from 728th in 2019) and the 86th most popular Swedish Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Gösta Löfgren ranks 3,274 out of 21,273Before him are Jesé, Nélson Luís Kerchner, Sándor Gellér, Constantin Stanciu, Hirohide Adachi, and Juninho Paulista. After him are Hélder Postiga, Florea Dumitrache, Valentin Bubukin, Manuel Almunia, , and Éver Banega.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Gösta Löfgren ranks 333Before him are N. T. Rama Rao, Jorge Daponte, Ivor Bueb, Jim Marshall, Jean Stapleton, and Somnath Sharma. After him are Oskar Fischer, Latifa al-Zayyat, Hedy Schlunegger, Otar Korkia, Mother Angelica, and Hassan Ali Mansur. Among people deceased in 2006, Gösta Löfgren ranks 268Before him are S. Yizhar, Valentin Muratov, Alvin M. Weinberg, Peter Osgood, Oskar Pastior, and Zdravko Rajkov. After him are Gene Pitney, Vojislav Melić, Duygu Asena, Alan Shugart, Lyubov Polishchuk, and Mario Francesco Pompedda.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Gösta Löfgren ranks 821 out of 1,879Before him are Quorthon (1966), Sven Gustaf Wingqvist (1876), Ingemar Johansson (1924), Inger Berggren (1934), Birger Rosengren (1917), and Tim Sköld (1966). After him are Esbjörn Svensson (1964), Stig Sollander (1926), Nils Skoglund (1906), May-Louise Flodin (1934), Alf Kjellin (1920), and Glenn Hysén (1959).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Sweden

Among soccer players born in Sweden, Gösta Löfgren ranks 86Before him are Stellan Nilsson (1922), Tom Turesson (1942), Kurt Axelsson (1941), Jean-Paul Vonderburg (1964), Gunnar Johansson (1924), and Birger Rosengren (1917). After him are Glenn Hysén (1959), Gunnar Andersson (1928), Marcus Allbäck (1973), Carl-Erik Holmberg (1906), Andreas Isaksson (1981), and Olle Åhlund (1920).