Gunnar Nordahl
Swedish association football player (1921-1995) · Sweden · Footballers · Died at 73
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Something wrong?AC Milan's all-time leading scorer wasn't Italian. Gunnar Nordahl arrived from Sweden in 1949 and spent seven years dismantling Serie A defenses with such ruthless consistency that he won five top scorer titles - a record that still stands - and earned the nickname "Il Cannoniere," the gunner.
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1950-51 Serie A - Inter Milan v AC Milan - Nordahl scores
1951-52 AC Milan - Gunnar Nordahl, Nils Liedholm and Gunnar Gren
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Born 19 October 1921, Nordahl played for Sweden through the 1940s, scoring 43 goals in 33 international appearances and finishing joint top scorer as Sweden took gold at the 1948 Olympics. Milan signed him in 1949, and what followed was a seven-year siege: two scudetti, five capocannonieri crowns, and a goalscoring rate per appearance that no one in Italian league history has matched. He left Milan in 1956 as their all-time leading scorer, a mark that stood alone until Francesco Totti's total Roma goals overtook it in 2012, though Nordahl's Milan record remains untouched. He died 15 September 1995, having been his son Thomas's father and, by most measures, one of the finest strikers the game has seen.
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