GUNNAR NORDAHL, The King Of Top Scorer

Nation : Sweden
Born : Hornefors, Northern Sweden October 19 1921
Height : 185 cm
Weight : 80 kg
Position : Striker
Descriptions :The greatest goal scorer collected, very sharp on the penalty area by his both of feet, as a front line who trusted by team mate to finish the attack he always be the destination of ball distribution.

He was one of the famous trio Sweden Gre-No-Li (Gren-Nordahl-Liedholm) who took Italian football by storm during the 1950's. At his most dangerous spearheading the front line, he maintained a remarkable scoring record at all levels of the game.

Nordahl got his nickname “Pompiere” based on his career before transferd to AC Milan in 1949, he was worked as a fireman. Prior to that he bagged 77 goals in 58 games for Degerfors and 93 goals in 92 games for Norrkoping the club where he collected four consecutive league titles, and brought his country to the gold medal at the 1948 Olympic Games. His striking prowess was not dimmed in the notoriously tough Italian Serie A.
Indeed he successfully linked up with fellow Swedes Gunnar Gren and Nils Liedholm at Milan and later continued his terrific form at Roma. Nordahl finished as the league's top scorer no fewer than five times, scoring 225 times at the rate of almost one goal per game for the two clubs. He eventually returned home in 1957 to serve as player-manager of Karlstad.

Nordahl appeared in two World Cup campaigns, unfortunately he missed out on Sweden's 1958 World Cup Final date against Brazil. Only played 33 international appereances, amazingly he could scored 44 goals by that time, undoubt he became the greatest Swedish goalscorer of all time.