SOCCER PLAYER

Putte Kock

1901 - 1979

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Rudolf "Putte" Kock (29 June 1901 – 31 October 1979) was a Swedish football, ice hockey and bridge player who won a bronze medal in the 1924 Summer Olympics as a football player, being voted the best left winger after the tournament. He also made six caps for the Swedish ice hockey team, including the Ice Hockey European Championship 1922, and scored five goals. After having to end his career prematurely due to a knee injury, he worked as a football coach with AIK's rivals Djurgården and with the national team (1943–1956). Together with George Raynor he qualified Sweden for the 1948 Summer Olympics where they won gold, the 1950 FIFA World Cup (bronze) and the 1952 Summer Olympics (bronze). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Putte Kock is the 6,332nd most popular soccer player (down from 5,531st in 2019), the 1,206th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 1,149th in 2019) and the 169th most popular Swedish Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Putte Kock ranks 6,332 out of 21,273. Before him are Danny, Davy Klaassen, Claudinho, Alan Dzagoev, Cristian Brocchi, and Zdeněk Šreiner. After him are Moussa Sow, Juan Carlos Unzué, Gabriel Barbosa, Walter Smith, M'Baye Niang, and Juan Pablo Ángel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Putte Kock ranks 346. Before him are Rudy Vallée, George Tobias, E. B. Ford, Chester Morris, John C. Stennis, and Gilda Gray. After him are Alex James, Nikolai Khmelyov, Mary Eaton, George Moorhouse, Donald Howard Menzel, and Oliver La Farge. Among people deceased in 1979, Putte Kock ranks 285. Before him are J. G. Farrell, Yuri Krylov, Gracie Fields, Zoltán Várkonyi, Sally Rand, and Angus MacLise. After him are Vladimir Fyodorov, Walter Dietrich, Vivian Vance, John Glascock, Jimmy McCulloch, and Laurie Bird.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Putte Kock ranks 1,206 out of 1,879. Before him are Margreth Weivers (1926), Johan Andersson (1974), Kristina Hautala (1948), Petter Hansson (1976), Rudolf Degermark (1886), and Frank Andersson (1956). After him are Eva Korpela (1958), Rick Falkvinge (1972), Roine Stolt (1956), Magnus Gustafsson (1967), Joakim Brodén (1980), and Jimmie Åkesson (1979).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Sweden

Among soccer players born in Sweden, Putte Kock ranks 169. Before him are Olle Nordin (1949), Rami Shaaban (1975), Joachim Björklund (1971), Emil Forsberg (1991), Jan Eriksson (1967), and Petter Hansson (1976). After him are Joakim Nilsson (1966), Mattias Jonson (1974), Sven Andersson (1963), Sanny Åslund (1952), Lotta Schelin (1984), and Daniel Andersson (1977).

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