Olle Olsson

Olle Olsson
Personal information
Full name	Nils Olle Bernhard Olsson
Born	(1948-06-01)1 June 1948 Lund, Sweden
Died	29 June 2024(2024-06-29) (aged 76)
Nationality	Swedish
Playing position	Back
Club information
Current club	Retired
Youth career
Years	Team
1960–1964	Lugi HF
Senior clubs
Years	Team
1964–1970	Lugi HF
1970	IF Saab
1970–1975	Lugi HF
1975–1980	AIK
National team
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1967–1977	Sweden	73	(127)
Teams managed
1975–1980	AIK (as player-coach)
1980–1982	IFK Kristianstad
1982–1990	Lugi HF
1990–1993	IL Norrøna ( Norway)
1993–1995	Virum-Sorgenfri HK ( Denmark)
1995–1997	Japan national team
1997–1998	VfL Gummersbach ( Germany)
1999–2000	Lugi HF
2000–2002	Saudi Arabia national team

Olle Olsson (1 June 1948 – 29 June 2024)^[1] was a Swedish handball player and handball coach.^[2] In 1972 he was part of the Swedish team which finished seventh in the Olympic tournament.^[2] He played four matches and scored two goals.

Club career

Olsson started playing handball at the age of 12 in Lugi HF in Lund. It was also here he started his career in 1964 when he was only 16 years old. Lugi was at that time the Swedish 2nd division, the second highest level in Sweden. The same year Lugi was promoted to the highest tier, Allsvenskan, and thus Olle Olsson made his top flight debut the next year.^[3]

In 1970 he was in military service, and therefore he played a single year at IF Saab, only to return to Lugi HF. He played a total of 136 matches, scoring 523 goals. In 1975 he stopped playing at Lugi to study at the Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences in Stockholm. Therefore he started playing for the Stockholm club AIK, where he was a playing manager. He played for AIK for 5 years, while he was studying. In 1980 he retired as player to coach full time.^[4]

National team

Olsson played for the Swedish national team for 10 years between 1967 and 1977, where he represented Sweden at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Münich and the 1974 World Cup in East Germany.

Coaching career

Olsson started coaching as a player-coach at AIK, where he was until 1980. AIK closed the handball department that year, which ended his tenure. He moved on to IFK Kristianstad where he was the coach from 1980 to 1982. In 1982 he returned to coach his childhood club Lugi HF, where he was the coach for 8 years.

References

1. Skånesport (30 July 2024). "LUGI-legendaren Olle Olsson ur tiden". Skånesport (in Swedish). Retrieved 30 July 2024.
2. "Olle Olsson" (in Swedish). Swedish Olympic Committee. Retrieved 12 May 2010.
3. https://web.archive.org/web/20171005175254/http://www.lugihandboll.se/media/121345/Spelare-t-o-m-2016-17.pdf
4. Göransson, Glenn (15 February 2018). "Olle Olsson: "Vi höll på att slå ut CSKA Moskva ur Europa cupen med Lugi"". Sveriges Radio.