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Nils Liedholm

1922 - 2007

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Nils Erik Liedholm (pronounced [ˈnɪlːs ˈlîːdhɔlm]; 8 October 1922 – 5 November 2007) was a Swedish football midfielder and coach. Il Barone (the Baron), as he is affectionately known in Italy, was renowned for being part of the Swedish "Gre-No-Li" trio of strikers along with Gunnar Gren and Gunnar Nordahl at AC Milan and the Sweden national team, with which he achieved notable success throughout his career. Liedholm was an intelligent and technically gifted offensive playmaker who was renowned for his range of passing and his elegant style of play; he is regarded as one of Milan's and Sweden's greatest ever players, and considered one of the best players of the post-war era. At the end of the 20th century, Liedholm was voted the best Swedish player of the millennium by the readers of Sweden's largest newspaper, Aftonbladet. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nils Liedholm is the 137th most popular soccer player (down from 122nd in 2019), the 120th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 107th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Swedish Soccer Player.

Nils Liedholm is most famous for being a Swedish football player and coach. He played for the Swedish national team, winning the gold medal in the 1948 Olympics. He played for AC Milan, winning two Serie A titles and two European Cups. He coached AC Milan, winning two more Serie A titles.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Nils Liedholm ranks 137 out of 21,273. Before him are Berti Vogts, Simone Inzaghi, Daniel Passarella, Allan Simonsen, Ko Arima, and Dunga. After him are Pavel Nedvěd, Tostão, Jorge Jesus, Didier Deschamps, Ademir de Menezes, and Yukio Tsuda.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Nils Liedholm ranks 47. Before him are Julius Nyerere, Nikolay Basov, Miguel Muñoz, Liliane Bettencourt, Arthur Ashkin, and Jacques Piccard. After him are Leon M. Lederman, Ademir de Menezes, Seymour Martin Lipset, Roger Etchegaray, Renata Tebaldi, and Yang Chen-Ning. Among people deceased in 2007, Nils Liedholm ranks 33. Before him are Barry Nelson, Jerry Falwell, Deborah Kerr, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Arthur Kornberg, and Paul Tibbets. After him are Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Ryszard Kapuściński, Abdul Rahman Arif, Alan MacDiarmid, Paul Lauterbur, and Richard Rorty.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Nils Liedholm ranks 120 out of 1,879. Before him are Princess Margaretha, Mrs. Ambler (1934), Elias Magnus Fries (1794), Jenny Lind (1820), Carl Peter Thunberg (1743), Franz Berwald (1796), and Peter Stormare (1953). After him are Lennart Torstensson (1603), Charles VII of Sweden (1130), Ingemar Stenmark (1956), Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland (1861), Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld (1938), and Toomas Hendrik Ilves (1953).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Sweden

Among soccer players born in Sweden, Nils Liedholm ranks 3. Before him are Gunnar Nordahl (1921), and Zlatan Ibrahimović (1981). After him are Gunnar Gren (1920), Kurt Hamrin (1934), Freddie Ljungberg (1977), Henrik Larsson (1971), Agne Simonsson (1935), Ove Kindvall (1943), Harry Bild (1936), Lennart Skoglund (1929), and Ronnie Hellström (1949).

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