Nils Liedholm

Midfielder, Football player

1922 – 2007

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Who was Nils Liedholm?

Nils Liedholm was a Swedish football midfielder and coach. Il Barone, as he is affectionately known in Italy, was renowned for being part of the Swedish "Gre-No-Li" trio of strikers along with Gunnar Gren and Gunnar Nordahl at A.C. Milan and the Swedish national team. As a coach, he was in charge of several teams in Italy, managing for nearly four decades. At the end of the 20th century Liedholm was voted the best Swedish player of the millennium by the readers of Sweden's largest newspaper, Aftonbladet.

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Born
Oct 8, 1922
Valdemarsvik
Nationality
  • Sweden
Profession
Employment
  • A.C. Milan
    (1949 - )
  • IFK Norrköping
    (1946 - 1949)
  • IK Sleipner
    (1942 - 1946)
Lived in
  • Valdemarsvik
Died
Nov 5, 2007
Cuccaro Monferrato
Resting place
Monumental Cemetery of Turin

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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