SOCCER PLAYER

Lennart Samuelsson

1924 - 2012

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Torsten Lennart Samuelsson (7 July 1924 – 27 November 2012) was a Swedish footballer who played as a defender and won bronze medals at the 1950 FIFA World Cup and 1952 Summer Olympics. Between 1950 and 1955 Samuelsson was capped in 36 international matches and scored no goals. Domestically he played for Elfsborg (126 matches, 2 goals in 1947–1954), and in 1951 he appeared in nine matches with the French club Nice. His career was cut short due to a broken leg. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lennart Samuelsson is the 3,078th most popular soccer player (up from 3,318th in 2019), the 784th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 840th in 2019) and the 79th most popular Swedish Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Lennart Samuelsson ranks 3,078 out of 21,273Before him are Tibor Csernai, Eugen Meier, Milan Damjanović, Eusebio Di Francesco, Georginio Wijnaldum, and Ferdinand Adams. After him are Severino Minelli, Pierluigi Casiraghi, Viktor Kolotov, Léopold Anoul, Ljubomir Lovrić, and Jesús María Zamora.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Lennart Samuelsson ranks 354Before him are Emmanuel Scheffer, Hans Kalt, Yoshiaki Arata, Arthur Harnden, Heinz Müller, and Don Knotts. After him are Yasuzo Masumura, Ruhi Sarıalp, Boris Vasilyev, Kenny Dorham, Li Li-hua, and Kihachi Okamoto. Among people deceased in 2012, Lennart Samuelsson ranks 304Before him are Roland Moreno, Richard D. Zanuck, Nils Karlsson, Hans Nowak, Mahmoud El-Gohary, and Tibor Csernai. After him are Viktor Kosichkin, Friedhelm Konietzka, Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, Phyllis Diller, Klaus Köste, and Ian Abercrombie.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Lennart Samuelsson ranks 784 out of 1,879Before him are Margaretha Krook (1925), Nils Karlsson (1917), Bengt Berndtsson (1933), Uschi Digard (1948), Gustaf Weidel (1890), and Jens Johansson (1963). After him are Axel Cadier (1906), Peter Tägtgren (1970), Bertil Antonsson (1921), Stellan Nilsson (1922), Frithiof Mårtensson (1884), and Göran Therborn (1941).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Sweden

Among soccer players born in Sweden, Lennart Samuelsson ranks 79Before him are Victor Carlund (1906), Kurt Svensson (1927), Nils Rosén (1902), Sven Jacobsson (1914), Glenn Strömberg (1960), and Bengt Berndtsson (1933). After him are Stellan Nilsson (1922), Tom Turesson (1942), Kurt Axelsson (1941), Jean-Paul Vonderburg (1964), Gunnar Johansson (1924), and Birger Rosengren (1917).