Börje Leander

Börje Leander

Personal information
Full name	Oscar Börje Leander
Date of birth	(1918-03-07)7 March 1918
Place of birth	Avesta, Sweden
Date of death	30 October 2003(2003-10-30) (aged 85)
Place of death	Mora, Sweden
Position(s)	Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1938–1953	AIK	249	(25)
International career
1941–1950	Sweden[1]	23	(4)
Medal record Men's football Representing  Sweden Olympic Games 1948 London Team competition
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Oscar Börje Leander (7 March 1918 – 30 October 2003) was a Swedish footballer. He played 249 matches as a midfielder for AIK and scored 25 goals, mostly successful penalty kicks. He also played 23 times for the Sweden national team, scoring four goals. He was on the Sweden squad that won the gold medal in the 1948 Summer Olympics.^[2] When Knut Nordahl was injured in the opening match against Austria, Leander stepped in as a substitute right-back, and stayed until the final, when Nordahl recovered.^[3][4]

Honours

Sweden^[4]

• Summer Olympics: 1948

References

1. "Sweden men's national football team stats". passagen.se (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 6 June 2012.
2. "Börje Leander". Olympedia. Retrieved 13 October 2021.
3. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Börje Leander". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 3 July 2017.
4. "Börje Leander". SOK.se (in Swedish). Swedish Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 4 February 2016.

External links

Media related to Börje Leander at Wikimedia Commons

• Börje Leander at the Swedish Football Association (in Swedish)
• Börje Leander national team profile at SvFF (in Swedish) (archived)
• AIK.se stats
• AIK.se profile
• Barje Leander at Olympics.com
• Börje Leander at Olympic.org (archived)