SOCCER PLAYER

Sven Axbom

1926 - 2006

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Sven Axbom (15 October 1926 − 8 April 2006) was a Swedish footballer who was capped on 31 occasions by Sweden between 1955 and 1960. He played in all six games for Sweden at the 1958 FIFA World Cup, including the final against Brazil. He was born in Kimstad near Norrköping. He played club football for IFK Norrköping, and in the 1960 season appeared in 16 games for them, whilst in 1956-57 he played two games for them in the European Cup. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sven Axbom is the 2,215th most popular soccer player (down from 1,864th in 2019), the 630th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 564th in 2019) and the 52nd most popular Swedish Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Sven Axbom ranks 2,215 out of 21,273. Before him are Yakubu, Roberto Aballay, Jozef Móder, Gervinho, Raul Meireles, and Giuseppe Baldo. After him are Mehmet Scholl, Georg Braun, Kurt Schmied, Tomáš Pospíchal, Olaf Thon, and João Cancelo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Sven Axbom ranks 297. Before him are Joe Slovo, Theo Adam, Rafiq Nishonov, Baltazar, Rodrigo Carazo Odio, and Danièle Delorme. After him are Kurt Schmied, Samuel Goldwyn Jr., Geoffrey Howe, Ludvík Vaculík, Jacques Rozier, and Christine Jorgensen. Among people deceased in 2006, Sven Axbom ranks 220. Before him are André Schwarz-Bart, Francisco Fernández Ochoa, Ted Schroeder, Akira Ifukube, Gert Fredriksson, and Kazimierz Górski. After him are Georgios Rallis, Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, Kent Andersson, Teresa Ciepły, Yitzhak Kaduri, and Mohammad Yunus Khalis.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Sven Axbom ranks 630 out of 1,879. Before him are Eivar Widlund (1905), Gert Fredriksson (1919), Thomas Wassberg (1956), Sigvard Ericsson (1930), Ernst Josephson (1851), and Sara Lidman (1923). After him are John Mikaelsson (1913), Gunnar Olsson (1908), Åse Kleveland (1949), Nils Poppe (1908), Pia Degermark (1949), and Carl Skottsberg (1880).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Sweden

Among soccer players born in Sweden, Sven Axbom ranks 52. Before him are Bror Mellberg (1923), Torbjörn Nilsson (1954), Hasse Jeppson (1925), Karl-Erik Palmér (1929), Tore Svensson (1927), and Eivar Widlund (1905). After him are Gunnar Olsson (1908), Arne Nyberg (1913), Henock Abrahamsson (1909), Harry Andersson (1913), Kent Karlsson (1945), and Sven Jonasson (1909).

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