Gunnar Nordahl
Nordahl playing for IFK Norrköping in 1948
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| Full name | Nils Gunnar Nordahl | ||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 19 October 1921 | ||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Hörnefors, Sweden | ||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 15 September 1995 (aged 73) | ||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Alghero, Italy | ||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Striker | ||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||
| 1937–1940 | Hörnefors IF | 41 | (68) | ||||||||||||
| 1940–1944 | Degerfors IF | 77 | (56) | ||||||||||||
| 1944–1949 | IFK Norrköping | 95 | (93) | ||||||||||||
| 1949–1956 | Milan | 257 | (210) | ||||||||||||
| 1956–1958 | Roma | 34 | (15) | ||||||||||||
| Total | 504 | (442) | |||||||||||||
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| 1942–1948 | Sweden | 33 | (43) | ||||||||||||
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| 1958–1959 | AS Roma (player-manager) | ||||||||||||||
| 1959–1961 | Karlstads BIK | ||||||||||||||
| 1961–1964 | Degerfors IF | ||||||||||||||
| 1967–1970 | IFK Norrköping | ||||||||||||||
| 1971–1973 | IF Saab | ||||||||||||||
| 1974 | IK Sleipner | ||||||||||||||
| 1975–1976 | Östers IF | ||||||||||||||
| 1977–1978 | AIK Fotboll | ||||||||||||||
| 1979–1980 | IFK Norrköping | ||||||||||||||
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Nils Gunnar Nordahl (19 October 1921 – 15 September 1995) was a Swedish football player. A highly prolific, powerful, and physically strong striker, with an eye for goal, he is best known for his spell at A.C. Milan from 1949 to 1956, in which he won the Scudetto twice, and also the title of pluricapocannoniere, with an unprecedented five top scorer (Capocannonieri) awards, more than any other player in the history of the Italian championship. Nordahl is Milan’s all-time record goalscorer, and he long held the record for most goals for a single club in the history of Italian league, before being surpassed by Francesco Totti on January 2012. Nordahl is considered to be one of the greatest Swedish football players of all-time, and regarded as one of the best strikers in football history. He is the father of Thomas Nordahl.
Nordahl started out at Hörnefors IF in Sweden before moving to first Degerfors IF and then IFK Norrköping. He won four Swedish championships with IFK Norrköping and once scored seven goals in one game. During his time in Swedish clubs, Nordahl scored 149 goals in 172 matches.
Nordahl transferred to A.C. Milan on 22 January 1949. Later, he would team up with his national team strike partners, Gunnar Gren and Nils Liedholm to form the renowned Gre-No-Li trio. Playing eight seasons with Milan, he is Serie A's multi-top-scorer a record five times (1949–50, 1950–51, 1952–53, 1953–54 and 1954–55). Nordahl is also Milan's all-time top-scorer, with 210 league goals. Nordahl held the second-highest Serie A goalscorer of all time, with 225 goals in 291 matches. Only Silvio Piola have scored more goals in that division, until Francesco Totti surpassed him on March 2013. That makes Nordahl the top goalscorer among non-Italian players, and he is also the most efficient goalscorer goals in Serie A ever with 0.77 goals/match.
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