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Gunnar Löfgren

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Playing position
  
Midfielder

Years
  
Team

Died
  
11 March 2012

1925–?
  
IFK Göteborg

Team
  
Apps

Position
  
Midfielder

Date of birth
  
(1910-11-30)30 November 1910

Date of death
  
11 March 2012(2012-03-11) (aged 101)

Gunnar Löfgren (30 November 1910 – 11 March 2012) was a Swedish football midfielder. He joined the IFK Göteborg youth team in 1925 and the senior squad in 1933. He remained with IFK Göteborg through 1939, scoring 19 goals in 186 appearances and earning a Swedish national title with the team in 1935. He made his international debut for Sweden on 23 September 1934, during the 1933–36 Nordic Football Championship, in a 5-4 loss to Finland. He earned four other caps with the national team in 1937, participating in the 1937–47 Nordic Football Championship and the 1938 FIFA World Cup qualification. He was also selected to represent Sweden at the 1936 Summer Olympics in football, but chose not to attend in protest of Nazism. He died at the age of 101 in March 2012.

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Gunnar Löfgren Wikipedia