Rudolf Ragnar Lindbäck (13 November 1906,

Helsinki Helsinki () is the Capital city, capital and most populous List of cities and towns in Finland, city in Finland. It is on the shore of the Gulf of Finland and is the seat of southern Finland's Uusimaa region. About people live in the municipali ...

– 29 May 1974, Helsinki) was a Finnish

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who played for HIFK Fotboll from 1926 until the end of 1939. He played as a defender, and was part of the HIFK squad that won the

Mestaruussarja Mestaruussarja (Championship series) was the top division of Finnish football from 1930 to 1989. It was replaced by Veikkausliiga in 1990. In 1930 league format was used for the first time to decide the Finnish champion. Before that (1908-1929) ...

(Finnish Championship league) in 1930, 1931, 1933 and 1937. He ended his career after the 1939 season. Lindbäck also played eleven matches with the Finland National team, and he was the captain of the Finnish football team at the

1936 Berlin Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XI Olympiad () and officially branded as Berlin 1936, were an international multi-sport event held from 1 to 16 August 1936 in Berlin, then capital of Nazi Germany. Berlin won the bid to ...

, although he did not have any playing time during the Finnish team's only match, against Peru.

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* HIFK Fotboll players 1906 births 1974 deaths Finnish men's footballers Finland men's international footballers Olympic footballers for Finland Men's association football defenders Footballers from Helsinki 20th-century Finnish sportsmen {{Finland-footy-bio-stub