 Sylve Bengtsson in May 1959 | ||||||||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Sylve Bengtsson | |||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1930-07-02)2 July 1930 | |||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Halmstad, Sweden | |||||||||||||
| Date of death | 30 April 2005(2005-04-30) (aged 74) | |||||||||||||
| Place of death | Halmstad, Sweden | |||||||||||||
| Position | Forward | |||||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||||
| Halmstads BK | ||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
| 1947–1948 | Halmstads BK | |||||||||||||
| 1949–1952 | Hälsingborgs IF | |||||||||||||
| 1953–1960 | Halmstads BK | |||||||||||||
| 1961–1963 | Gnosjö IF | |||||||||||||
| 1964–1965 | Hälsingborgs IF | |||||||||||||
| 1967 | Halmstads BK | |||||||||||||
| International career | ||||||||||||||
| 1950–1958 | Sweden | 28 | (7) | |||||||||||
| Managerial career | ||||||||||||||
| 1967 | Halmstads BK | |||||||||||||
| 1968 | Laholms FK | |||||||||||||
| 1971 | Halmstads BK | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | ||||||||||||||
Sylve Boris Bengtsson (2 July 1930 – 30 April 2005) was a Swedishassociation footballforward.[1][2]
Bengtsson started his career inHalmstads BK at the age of 17 in 1947 againstDjurgårdens IF, a 0–5 defeat. In 1948 as Halmstads BK was relegated fromAllsvenskan Sylve left forHälsingborgs IF (now Helsingborgs IF); during his time in Hälsingborg he made his first national team appearance forSweden. He was part of the Sweden national team that defeatedWest Germany to win a bronze medal in the1952 Summer Olympics inHelsinki.[3]
After the Summer Olympics he returned to Halmstads BK and helped the club back up in Allsvenskan, in season1954–55 he won the Stora Silvret with the club and in the following season he became the top goalscorer with 22 goals. Halmstads BK was relegated yet again in 1959 and in 1961 Sylve left for Gnosjö IF where he played for three seasons before returning to Allsvenskan andHälsingborgs IF to play between 1964 and 1965.
In 1967, he returned to Halmstads BK as a playing coach and in 1968 he became manager forLaholms FK, shortly south ofHalmstad, he then returned to Halmstads BK as teamleader; he made a short time as manager yet again for the club during the summer of 1971 and led the club back to Allsvenskan.
Aside from playing football he also worked as abaker andconfectioner.
Halmstads BK
Sweden
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