SOCCER PLAYER

Kalle Svensson

1925 - 2000

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Karl-Oskar Svensson (11 November 1925 – 15 July 2000), often nicknamed Rio-Kalle, was a Swedish football goalkeeper from Helsingborg. He played on elite level for Helsingborgs IF during his whole career, debuting in Allsvenskan only 18 years old on 4 June 1944. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kalle Svensson has received more than 63,721 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Kalle Svensson is the 956th most popular soccer player (down from 909th in 2019), the 361st most popular biography from Sweden (up from 383rd in 2019) and the 15th most popular Swedish Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Kalle Svensson ranks 956 out of 21,273Before him are Bernd Bransch, Adrian Mutu, Paolo Di Canio, Joseph Alcazar, Herbert Chapman, and Hulk. After him are Juan Ramón Verón, Kikuzo Kisaka, Ronald de Boer, Fernando Muslera, César Sampaio, and Michihiro Ozawa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Kalle Svensson ranks 163Before him are Rabah Bitat, Mario Merz, John Cocke, Bill Gates Sr., Emilio Eduardo Massera, and Johnny Carson. After him are Bauer, Nancy Roman, Alexei Tupolev, Elmore Leonard, Doris Hart, and June Whitfield. Among people deceased in 2000, Kalle Svensson ranks 100Before him are George Volkoff, Ahmad Shamlou, Rabah Bitat, Domingos da Guia, Ursula Kuczynski, and Svetozar Vukmanović. After him are Christian Marquand, Bernhard Wicki, L. Sprague de Camp, Penelope Fitzgerald, Claude Autant-Lara, and Nancy Marchand.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Kalle Svensson ranks 361 out of 1,879Before him are Ola Ullsten (1931), Erik Nilsson (1916), Marika Green (1943), Svante Nilsson (1460), Anders Sparrman (1748), and Ivan Eklind (1905). After him are Hjalmar Hammarskjöld (1862), Noomi Rapace (1979), Thomas Ravelli (1959), Sofia Helin (1972), Princess Amalia of Sweden (1805), and Sophia Albertina, Abbess of Quedlinburg (1753).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Sweden

Among soccer players born in Sweden, Kalle Svensson ranks 15Before him are Agne Simonsson (1935), Ove Kindvall (1943), Lennart Skoglund (1929), Ronnie Hellström (1949), Tomas Brolin (1969), and Erik Nilsson (1916). After him are Thomas Ravelli (1959), Björn Nordqvist (1942), Kennet Andersson (1967), Sven Rydell (1905), Knut Nordahl (1920), and Tore Keller (1905).