Agne Simonsson

Agne Simonsson
Personal information

Full name	Tore Klas Agne Simonsson
Date of birth	(1935-10-19) 19 October 1935
Place of birth	Gothenburg, Sweden
Playing position	Striker
Youth career
	BK René
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1959–1960	Örgryte IS	42	(25)
1960–1963	Real Madrid	3	(1)
1961–1962	→ Real Sociedad (loan)	22	(8)
1963–1970	Örgryte IS	120	(80)
Total		187	(114)
National team
1957–1967	Sweden	51	(27)
Teams managed
1971–1972	Örgryte IS
1977–1982	BK Häcken
1983–1986	Örgryte IS
1988–1990	Iraklis
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Tore Klas Agne Simonsson (born 19 October 1935) is a former Swedish footballer. He played for the Sweden national football team, earning 51 caps and scoring 27 goals. He was a participant in the 1958 FIFA World Cup, scoring 4 goals, when Sweden reached the final on home soil, losing the game 5-2 to Brazil (one of his goals came in the final itself).^[1] On the club level, he played for Örgryte IS, Real Madrid and Real Sociedad.

Simonsson was awarded the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal in 1959.

References

Sweden squad – 1958 FIFA World Cup Runners-up

1 K. Svensson 2 Bergmark 3 Axbom 4 Liedholm (c) 5 Johansson 6 Parling 7 Hamrin 8 Gren 9 Simonsson 10 Selmosson 11 Skoglund 12 T. Svensson 13 Öberg 14 Gustavsson 15 Börjesson 16 Haraldsson 17 Håkansson 18 Löfgren 19 Källgren 20 Mellberg 21 Berndtsson 22 Ohlsson Coach: Raynor

Agne Simonsson managerial positions

Örgryte IS – managers

BK Häcken – managers

Iraklis 1908 F.C. – managers

Preceded by Richard Dahl	Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal 1959	Succeeded by Jane Cederqvist

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