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Torbjörn Nilsson

1954 - Today

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Torbjörn Anders Nilsson (born 9 July 1954) is a Swedish footballer and manager who played as a striker. Considered one of the best Swedish footballers of all time, he is best remembered for his time with IFK Göteborg with which he won two Swedish championship titles, the 1981–82 UEFA Cup, and reached the semi-finals of the 1985–86 European Cup. He also represented PSV Eindhoven in the Netherlands and 1. FC Kaiserslautern in Germany during a career that spanned between 1971 and 1990. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Torbjörn Nilsson is the 2,109th most popular soccer player (up from 2,231st in 2019), the 610th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 633rd in 2019) and the 47th most popular Swedish Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Torbjörn Nilsson ranks 2,109 out of 21,273. Before him are Martí Vergés, Píndaro de Carvalho Rodrigues, Michel Leblond, Jean-Luc Ettori, Masato Kudo, and Bror Mellberg. After him are Delfín Benítez Cáceres, Giuseppe Signori, Josef Uridil, Ehrenfried Patzel, David Watson, and Diego.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Torbjörn Nilsson ranks 260. Before him are Sam J. Jones, Mark Tornillo, Viktor Zolotov, Susumu Hirasawa, Frank Bainimarama, and Rekha. After him are Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf, Kazuhiko Inoue, Sergei Sidorsky, Jean Bourgain, Alex Salmond, and Jesús María Satrústegui.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Torbjörn Nilsson ranks 610 out of 1,879. Before him are Gustaf Söderström (1865), Jarl Kulle (1927), Bo Svenson (1941), Ruben Östlund (1974), Elena Paparizou (1982), and Bror Mellberg (1923). After him are Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz (1716), Kjell Bäckman (1934), Hasse Jeppson (1925), Karl-Erik Palmér (1929), Tore Svensson (1927), and Sven Lindqvist (1932).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Sweden

Among soccer players born in Sweden, Torbjörn Nilsson ranks 47. Before him are Victor Lindelöf (1994), Gösta Dunker (1905), Klas Ingesson (1968), Pia Sundhage (1960), Anders Rydberg (1903), and Bror Mellberg (1923). After him are Hasse Jeppson (1925), Karl-Erik Palmér (1929), Tore Svensson (1927), Eivar Widlund (1905), Sven Axbom (1926), and Gunnar Olsson (1908).

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