Personal information | |||
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Full name | Egon William Sundberg | ||
Date of birth | 27 February 1911 | ||
Place of birth | Ockelbo, Sweden | ||
Date of death | 4 September 2015 | (aged 104)||
Position(s) | Left winger | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
1934–1941 | Sandvikens IF | 113 | (23) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Egon William Sundberg (27 February 1911 – 4 September 2015) was a Swedish football left winger who played for Sandvikens IF in Allsvenskan. [1] He made his debut in August 1934 against Sundsvall IF. He decided to retire from football in 1939, but made a comeback in 1941 during the Second World War. In total, he played 113 games and scored 23 goals.
Sundberg was also a musician with his own orchestra and later had a job adding music to silent films that were shown in the cinema. [1] [2] On his 102nd birthday, he was noted as being the oldest living person to have played in the Swedish Allsvenskan. [2] He died at the age of 104 in 2015. [3] [4]