Legendary footballer and sole survivor of 1958 World Cup ultimate dies aged 89

Tributes are being paid to Kurt Hamrin, the only real surviving participant from the 1958 World Cup ultimate, who has died on the age of 89.

Hamrin scored essential objectives in victories in opposition to the Soviet Union and West Germany, propelling host nation Sweden to the ultimate. Sadly, they confronted a 5-2 defeat in opposition to a Pele-inspired Brazil within the ultimate match.

Hamrin was primarily a winger throughout a profitable profession that spanned from the Fifties to the Nineteen Seventies, and is taken into account one of many biggest Swedish footballers of all time.

Commencing his profession with AIK in Stockholm at simply 17, Hamrin later joined a number of prestigious Italian golf equipment, in the end securing the European Cup with AC Milan in 1969.

He performed for 9 seasons for Fiorentina, for whom he stays their file goalscorer, and settled within the metropolis when his enjoying profession got here to a detailed in 1972.

In a press release, Fiorentina known as Hamrin “a real legend”, whereas the Swedish Soccer Federation additionally paid tribute, writing: “Swedish soccer has misplaced certainly one of its greats.

“It wasn’t simply the monitor file, the objectives, the passes and the laborious work on the suitable wing that made ‘Kurre’ a legend who was by no means forgotten. He was a loyal and in style particular person wherever he performed.

“Swedish soccer remembers Kurre Hamrin with nice heat and gratitude. Our ideas are together with his household and family members proper now.”