Bengt “foal” Berndtsson will no longer be on training that IFK Gothenburg Oldboys every Saturday.
On Thursday died Blåvitts legendary players on the way home from the match between IFK and IF Elfsborg.
Bengt “foal” Berndtsson is dead and Comrade estate is understood the mood printed on Friday morning.
– Incredibly sad. I got chills when I walked in here this morning. What the hell had happened? He was up here last Saturday. He’s been so damn perky, says Gothenburg sporting director Mats Gren.
The blue and white legend died on the way home from the soccer match between IFK Goteborg and Elfsborg on Thursday.
Hisings boy Bengt Berndtsson started his football career in Hising Urban ice before his career continued in division three club Lundby IF. Football had intermingled with the work of Götaverken and a promising baseball career.
But the love of football took over and IFK Göteborg became aware of the young right winger who made Allsvenskan debut against Jönköping Södra at 18 1951st
– We came from the same club, Lundby IF. And when I began there as a lad had to hear that Bengt “foal” Berndtsson came from there. It was the first contact. Since there was such a pride, that it was there, so big he was, say Gothenburg Honorary Chairman Gunnar Larsson and continues:
– It is clear that there is sorrow and personally. He was one of the greatest symbols of good IFK. After the active time involved in gubbafotbollen on Saturdays. And active in old comrades, and not least the “old man’s kindergarten”, he hath taken hold of. It is so difficult to assimilate. So active he was in the game the same player.
“Old Man Kindergarten” is a Thursday sitting where football interested retirees coming to Old Ullevi bowels to talk, refreshments and listen to lectures.
– He has meant a lot for the “old man’s kindergarten. I have been there and talked, has been out with him on Öckerö. His whole heart was Blåvitt, says Mats Gren.
17 seasons (1951-1967) and 599 matches, of which 348 in the headlines, it became Bengt “foal” Berndtsson in the blue and white shirt. In addition, he recorded 125 goals and lots of målgivande passes to his teammates’ Bebben “Johansson and Owe Ohlsson. allsvenskt gold became the season 1957/1958.
– Since I went on this in 1982, he has been a very close friend, shall I say. So incredibly active. Come and played football here for two three weeks ago. It’s almost inconceivable that he Friske, strongman’s gone, says Gunnar Larsson.
Berndtsson also participated in the World Cup in 1958 where he “only” played a match since it was difficult to move on Kurt Hamrin was regular at right winger position. Berndtsson got to play the inconsequential 0-0 match against Wales. In total, he played 29 international matches.
Every Saturday has Berndtsson been on Comrade farm to train with IFK’s Oldboys. On Saturday, learn many miss him.
– “foal” were comrades Comrade and a role model for us all. He was a football fan I like guys read about in sports magazines and as I later, which was quite amazing, got to play football with the Oldboys gang of Comrade farm on Saturdays mornings. He always gave everything in all circumstances and always with a twinkle in his eye. The foal is one of the largest in the association’s history, a sympathetic man, a true gentleman and I, and all of us who knew him will miss tremendously, says club director Martin Kurzwelly and concludes:
– The Today our thoughts go primarily to the wife Britt and other relatives, but also to all the comrades who lost a loved one.
Bengt “foal” Berndtsson was 82 years old.
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