Lennart Larsson (footballer)

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Lennart Larsson
Personal information
Date of birth (1953-07-09) 9 July 1953 (age 71)
Place of birth Stockholm, Sweden
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1970–1972 IFK Malmö
1973–1975 Hässleholms IF
1976–1977 Halmstads BK 51 (16)
1977–1979 Schalke 04 26 (3)
1979–1982 Halmstads BK 53 (10)
International career
1976–1981 Sweden [1] 26 (4)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Lennart Larsson (born 9 July 1953) is a Swedish former footballer who played as a midfielder. [2]

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Career

Born in Stockholm, Larsson began his career in Hässleholms IF in 1976 when he went to play with Halmstads BK and won Allsvenskan the same year. In 1977, he was sold to FC Schalke 04 in the Bundesliga. He played two seasons there as a midfielder and went back to Halmstad in 1979–82 for a second time and became Swedish champion again in 1979, the club's second title.

Larsson was capped 26 times for the Sweden national team between 1976 and 1981 and was a part of the squad in the 1978 FIFA World Cup.

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References

  1. "Sweden men's national football team stats". passagen.se (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 6 June 2012.
  2. Lennart Larsson at WorldFootball.net