Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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Full name | Bror Lars Astley Mellberg | |||||||||||||
Date of birth | 9 December 1923 | |||||||||||||
Place of birth | Ambjörby, Sweden | |||||||||||||
Date of death | 8 September 2004 80) | (aged|||||||||||||
Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||||
Position(s) | Forward | |||||||||||||
Youth career | ||||||||||||||
1936–1940 | Ambjörby IK | |||||||||||||
1941–1947 | IK Viking | |||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
1947–1948 | Karlstad BK | |||||||||||||
1948–1950 | AIK | 21 | (15) | |||||||||||
1950–1952 | Genoa | 65 | (23) | |||||||||||
1952–1953 | Toulouse | 33 | (27) | |||||||||||
1953–1956 | Red Star | 103 | (72) | |||||||||||
1956–1957 | Sochaux | 25 | (7) | |||||||||||
1957–1961 | AIK | 62 | (18) | |||||||||||
International career | ||||||||||||||
1948–1949 | Sweden B | 2 | (1) | |||||||||||
1949–1958 | Sweden | 6 | (2) | |||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Bror Lars Astley Mellberg (9 December 1923 − 8 September 2004)[1] was a Swedish footballer who played as a forward. He played for the Sweden national team at the 1950 FIFA World Cup and 1958 FIFA World Cup where Sweden finished third and second, respectively.
Career statistics
International
National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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Sweden | 1949 | 1 | 1 |
1950 | 2 | 1 | |
1951 | 0 | 0 | |
1952 | 0 | 0 | |
1953 | 0 | 0 | |
1954 | 0 | 0 | |
1955 | 0 | 0 | |
1956 | 0 | 0 | |
1957 | 0 | 0 | |
1958 | 3 | 0 | |
Total | 6 | 2 |
- Scores and results list Sweden's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Mellberg goal.
No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition | Ref. |
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1 | 23 October 1949 | Parken, Copenhagen, Denmark | Denmark | 2–2 | 2–3 | 1948–51 Nordic Football Championship | [3] |
2 | 16 July 1950 | Pacaembu Stadium, São Paulo, Brazil | Spain | 2–0 | 3–1 | 1950 FIFA World Cup | [4] |
Honours
Sweden[5]
- FIFA World Cup runner-up: 1958
- FIFA World Cup third place: 1950
References
- ↑ Bror Mellberg, eu-football.info. Retrieved 18 September 2016
- ↑ "Bror Mellberg - Spelarstatistik - Svensk fotboll". www.svenskfotboll.se. (in Swedish). Retrieved 6 December 2022.
- ↑ "Danmark - Sverige - Matchfakta - Svensk fotboll". www.svenskfotboll.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 6 December 2022.
- ↑ "Sverige - Spanien - Matchfakta - Svensk fotboll". www.svenskfotboll.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 29 March 2021.
- ↑ "500 AIK:are - Bror Mellberg". www.aik.se. Retrieved 6 December 2022.
External links
- Bror Mellberg at WorldFootball.net
- "Profile". Archived from the original on 7 October 2007. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
- Bror Mellberg at National-Football-Teams.com
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