Kjell Hjertsson (1 August 1922 – 8 February 2013) was a Swedish

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who played his career at

Malmö FF Malmö Fotbollförening (), commonly known simply as Malmö FF or MFF, is a Swedish professional football club based in Malmö, Scania. They compete in the Allsvenskan, the top division of Swedish football, and play home matches at the Eleda S ...

and

Råå IF Råå Idrottsförening, commonly known as Råå IF, is a football club located in Råå at Öresund, Scania, south of Helsingborg. The club became the Swedish Cup champions in 1948, and the vice champions of the Allsvenskan, the highest league ...

as a

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. His brothers

Arne Hjertsson Arne Hjertsson (4 September 1918 – 12 June 1987) was a Sweden, Swedish Association football, footballer who played as a Forward (association football), forward. References

1918 births 1987 deaths Men's association football forwards Swed ...

and

Sven Hjertsson Sven Hjertsson (7 March 1924 – 12 November 1999) was a Swedish footballer who played as a defender. He was also part of Sweden's squad at the 1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics (, ), officially known as the Games of the XV Oly ...

were also footballers. He died 8 February 2013. In 1950 he was recruited to

, together with his Malmö FF clubmates Walle Ek and Gustaf Nilsson. With these reinforcements, Råå IF, immediately after promotion from the second tier, in the 1950–51 season, sensationally captured the top tier

Allsvenskan Allsvenskan (; ), also known as Fotbollsallsvenskan (, ) is a professional association football league in Sweden and the highest level of the Swedish football league system. Founded in 1924, it operates on a system of promotion and relegatio ...

's big silver medal.Idrottsbladet 1950, 1951

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hjertsson, Kjell 1922 births 2013 deaths Swedish men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Sweden men's international footballers Allsvenskan players Malmö FF players Råå IF players 20th-century Swedish sportsmen