SOCCER PLAYER

Putte Kock

1901 - 1979

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Rudolf "Putte" Kock (29 June 1901 – 31 October 1979) was a Swedish football, ice hockey and bridge player who won a bronze medal in the 1924 Summer Olympics as a football player, being voted the best left winger after the tournament. He also made six caps for the Swedish ice hockey team, including the Ice Hockey European Championship 1922, and scored five goals. After having to end his career prematurely due to a knee injury, he worked as a football coach with AIK's rivals Djurgården and with the national team (1943–1956). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Putte Kock has received more than 27,922 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Putte Kock is the 5,532nd most popular soccer player, the 1,149th most popular biography from Sweden and the 157th most popular Swedish Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Putte Kock ranks 5,532 out of 21,273Before him are Boubacar Barry, Jonathan Soriano, Alan Dzagoev, José Leandro Ferreira, Sargis Hovsepyan, and Lars Elstrup. After him are Rio Mavuba, Pablo Pacheco, Manuel Preciado Rebolledo, Santiago Ezquerro, Yngve Brodd, and Nikolai Manoshin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Putte Kock ranks 338Before him are Nelson Eddy, Jimmy Gallagher, Louis Kuehn, Nikolay Akimov, John C. Stennis, and Edmund Rubbra. After him are George Vernot, Chester Morris, Rudy Vallée, George Tobias, Nikolai Khmelyov, and Paul Martin. Among people deceased in 1979, Putte Kock ranks 272Before him are Klaus Egge, Laurie Bird, Gracie Fields, Arthur Fiedler, Carl Laemmle Jr., and Lowell George. After him are Carlyle S. Beals, Jan Pijnenburg, Zoltán Várkonyi, Jimmy McCulloch, Peter Donlon, and Angus MacLise.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Putte Kock ranks 1,149 out of 1,879Before him are Lena Philipsson (1966), Sven-Åke Lundbäck (1948), Andreas Palicka (1986), Sverrir Gudnason (1978), Lisa Ekdahl (1971), and Pernilla Wiberg (1970). After him are Gun Röring (1930), Pernilla Wahlgren (1967), Yngve Brodd (1930), Lotta Engberg (1963), Jonas Eriksson (1974), and Knut Torell (1885).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Sweden

Among soccer players born in Sweden, Putte Kock ranks 157Before him are Magnus Hedman (1973), Kosovare Asllani (1989), Markus Rosenberg (1982), Jesper Blomqvist (1974), Olle Nordin (1949), and Joachim Björklund (1971). After him are Yngve Brodd (1930), Alexander Isak (1999), Thomas Ahlström (1952), Jan Eriksson (1967), Albin Ekdal (1989), and Bertil Johansson (1935).