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Gunnar Nordahl
Nils Gunnar Nordahl (; 19 October 1921 – 15 September 1995) was a Swedish professional footballer. A highly prolific, powerful, and physically strong striker, with an eye for goal, he is best known for his spell at AC 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 in January 2012. He still holds the record for goals per appearance in Italy. He had several nicknames in Italy, whereof the most famous was ''Il Cannoniere'' ("The Prime Gunner"). He was also known as ''Il Pompiere'' ("The Fireman") and ''Il Bisonte'' ("The Bison'"). A full international between 1942 and 1948, he won 33 caps and sco ...
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Hörnefors
Hörnefors () is a locality situated in Umeå Municipality, Västerbotten County, Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ... with 2,542 inhabitants in 2010. References Populated places in Umeå Municipality {{Västerbotten-geo-stub ...
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Francesco Totti
Francesco Totti (; born 27 September 1976) is an Italian former professional Association football, footballer who played solely for AS Roma, Roma and the Italy national football team, Italy national team. He was a technically gifted and creative offensive playmaker who could play as an attacking midfielder or as a forward (association football), forward (second striker, lone striker (association football), striker, or winger (association football), winger). Totti List of one-club men in association football, spent his entire career at Roma, winning a Serie A title, two Coppa Italia titles, and two Supercoppa Italiana titles. A prolific goalscorer, he is the Football records in Italy#Goalscoring, second-highest scorer of all time in Italian league history with 250 goals, and is the Football records in Italy#Highest-scoring Italian players in all competitions, sixth-highest scoring Italian in all competitions with 316 goals. Totti is the AS Roma statistics and records#Top all-tim ...
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Serie A
The Serie A (), officially known as Serie A Enilive in Italy and Serie A Made in Italy abroad for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Italy and the highest tier of the Italian football league system. Established in the 1929–30 Serie A, 1929–30 season, it restructured the existing Italian Football Championship, which had been played since 1898 Italian Football Championship, 1898, into a national round-robin format alongside Serie B. It functions under a promotion and relegation system with Serie B and has historically served as the pinnacle of professional football in Italy. The league was organised by the Direttorio Divisioni Superiori until 1943, the Lega Nazionale Professionisti, Lega Calcio from 1946 to 2010, and the Lega Serie A ever since. The 29 championships played from 1898 to the formation of the Serie A in 1929 are officially recognised by the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) as equal to later Serie A titles. Similarly the 1945� ...
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Gre-No-Li
Gre-No-Li is a contraction of the surnames of three Swedish footballers: Gunnar Gren, Gunnar Nordahl and Nils Liedholm. The denomination was colloquially used after these players composed a formidable trio of attacking players while playing for the Sweden national team and Italian club A.C. Milan in the 1950s. The three forwards led Sweden to Olympic gold at the 1948 Olympic tournament in London. Shortly after that success, in January 1949, centre-forward Nordahl joined Milan, and was accompanied by Gren and Liedholm in the summer of the same year. The impact of the trio was immediate. Nordahl scored 16 goals in 15 matches in the second half of the 1948–49 season, and in the 1949-50 season Milan scored 118 goals in 38 matches (a record in 20-teams Serie A seasons). The trio's most notable achievement at the club came the following season, when Milan won the ''scudetto''; their first was won 44 years previously. Others have won the title: 1955 (Liedholm and Nordahl); 1957 ...
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Nils Liedholm
Nils Erik Liedholm (; 8 October 1922 – 5 November 2007) was a Swedish association football, football midfielder and coach. ''Il Barone'' (the Baron), 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 AC Milan and the Sweden men's national football team, Sweden national team, with which he achieved notable success throughout his career. Liedholm was an intelligent and technically gifted attacking midfielder, offensive advanced playmaker, playmaker who was renowned for his range of passing and his elegant style of play; he is regarded as one of Milan's and Sweden's greatest ever players, and considered one of the best players of the post-war era. 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''. As a coach, he was in charge of several teams in Italy, managing for nearly ...
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Gunnar Gren
Johan Gunnar Gren (; 31 October 1920 – 10 November 1991) was a Swedish professional association football, football player and coach. He is best remembered for playing for IFK Göteborg and AC Milan. A second striker, creative forward, known for his technical skill, vision, tactical intelligence, and passing ability as a playmaker, he was part of the famous "Gre-No-Li" trio of forward (association football), forwards at Milan and the Sweden men's national football team, Sweden national team. He was also capable of playing as an attacking midfielder, as an offensive–minded central midfielder, known as the ''mezzala'' role in Italian football jargon, or even as a striker (association football), striker. A full international between 1940 and 1958, he won 57 Cap (sport), caps and scored 32 goals for the Sweden men's national team. He was a part of the Sweden team that won gold at the Football at the 1948 Summer Olympics, 1948 Summer Olympics, as well as the team that finished sec ...
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Gunnar Nordahl
Nils Gunnar Nordahl (; 19 October 1921 – 15 September 1995) was a Swedish professional footballer. A highly prolific, powerful, and physically strong striker, with an eye for goal, he is best known for his spell at AC 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 in January 2012. He still holds the record for goals per appearance in Italy. He had several nicknames in Italy, whereof the most famous was ''Il Cannoniere'' ("The Prime Gunner"). He was also known as ''Il Pompiere'' ("The Fireman") and ''Il Bisonte'' ("The Bison'"). A full international between 1942 and 1948, he won 33 caps and sco ...
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Thomas Nordahl
Thomas Gunnar Nordahl (born 24 May 1946) is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a forward. He is also a former manager. He played his club football for Degerfors IF, Örebro SK, R.S.C. Anderlecht, and BK Forward during a career that spanned between 1964 and 1980. A full international between 1967 and 1975, he won 15 caps and scored 5 goals for the Sweden national team. He represented Sweden at the 1970 FIFA World Cup. After his playing career he worked as a manager with BK Forward, Sandvikens IF, Motala AIF, and IFK Norrköping. He is the son of former professional footballer Gunnar Nordahl.Gunnar Nordahl
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FourFourTwo
''FourFourTwo'' is an association football magazine published by British company Future. Issued monthly, it published its 300th edition in May 2019. It takes its name from the football formation of the same name, 4–4–2. Future acquired the magazine from Haymarket Media Group in 2018. Haymarket previously acquired Future's earlier football magazine ''Total Football'' in 2001 in exchange of subscriber list and the rights to the masthead of its defunct internet magazine ''The Net'', Haymarket later absorbed ''Total Football'' into ''FourFourTwo''. In 2008 ''FourFourTwo'' entered into a three-year shirt sponsorship deal with Swindon Town. Rankings and awards ''FourFourTwo'' has a number of annual rankings and awards. In 2007, the magazine put together its first ''FFT100'', their list of the 100 best footballers in the world. At the end of the 2012–13 Premier League season, FourFourTwo announced its first Stats Zone Awards. In May 2015, the inaugural list of the 50 best A ...
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Bleacher Report
''Bleacher Report'' (often abbreviated as B/R) is a website that focuses on sports and sports culture. Its headquarters are in San Francisco, with offices in New York City and London. ''Bleacher Report'' was acquired by Time Warner's Turner Broadcasting System in August 2012 for $175 million. In March 2018, ''Bleacher Report'' and Turner Sports launched B/R Live, a subscription video streaming service featuring live broadcasts of several major sports events, although the service was discontinued in 2021 and merged with the company's mobile app. ''Bleacher Report'' owns multi-media social network House of Highlights, and its branding was used for Max's sports coverage prior to 2025. History Founding: 2005–2011 ''Bleacher Report'' was formed in 2005 by Sam Erez, Harry Ryan, Bryan Goldberg, and Dave Nemetz—four friends and sports fans who were high school classmates at Menlo School in Atherton, California. Inspired by Ken Griffey Jr., they wanted to start writing ...
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John Hansen (footballer, Born 1924)
John Angelo Valdemar Østergaard Hansen, known simply as John Hansen, (24 June 1924 – 12 January 1990) was a Danish footballer who played as a forward. He played professionally for seven years in Italy: he scored 124 goals in 187 matches for Juventus FC, and won two Serie A championships with the club, finishing as ''Capocannoniere'' top-goal scorer in the 1951–52 Serie A season; he later also played for Italian club S.S. Lazio. He won the 1944 Danish championship with childhood club BK Frem. Hansen scored 10 goals in eight games for the Denmark national football team in 1948, and won a bronze medal with Denmark at the 1948 Summer Olympics. In 1985, Hansen received the Italian order of chivalry. He was the son of Danish international goalkeeper Niels Peder Hansen, who also played for BK Frem, and was the father of Henning Hansen, who played for BK Frem in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Playing career Amateur career Born in Frederiksberg, Hansen started his career with C ...
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Denmark National Football Team
The Denmark national football team ( or ''herrelandsholdet'') represents Denmark and Greenland in men's international Association football, football competitions. It is controlled by the Danish Football Association (DBU), the governing body for the football clubs which are organised under DBU. Denmark's home stadium is Parken Stadium in the Østerbro district of Copenhagen. Denmark were winners of the unofficial Football at the 1906 Intercalated Games, 1906 Intercalated Games football competition and silver medalists at the Football at the 1908 Summer Olympics, 1908 and Football at the 1912 Summer Olympics, 1912 Olympics. However, as amateurs who prohibited their internationals from becoming professionals at foreign clubs, Denmark did not qualify for the FIFA World Cup until 1986 FIFA World Cup, 1986, although they won another Olympic silver in Football at the 1960 Summer Olympics, 1960. Since the 1980s and the "#Danish Dynamite (1980–1990), Danish Dynamite" team, Denmark has ...
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