Gunnar Andersson, this name is perfectly known to OM supporters. And for good reason, this Swedish striker is the top scorer in the history of the Marseille club with 194 achievements. The star player of the Vélodrome stadium from 1950 to 1958, author of two seasons at 36 achievements, has never been champion of France. He lost the 1954 French Cup final, against the OGC Nice in Colombes, but raised the Charles Draco 1957 Cup at the Parc des Princes. This competition brought together the clubs eliminated before the CDF quarter -finals.
Andersson, who was naturalized French and played a match in France B team (against Italy at the Vélodrome), is obviously part of the casting of the book The 50 best OM playerspublished a few months ago by Fabrice Lampeti (journalist of Provence) at Scotty editions.
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French Football Weeklyreturns to 13 crazy stories told in this work bringing together the legends of the only French club winner of the Champions League in 1993.
The love of pastis with OM …
Regarding Andersson, we first discover that the attacker recruited in Copenhagen was … kidnapped by daily journalists The evening. In conflict with the president of the OM at the time, they asked the player to get off the train in Avignon to avoid the crowd at Saint-Charles station, before recovering it in order to carry out an exclusive interview. The Marseille club then filed a complaint for violation of individual freedom!
Whoever is nicknamed “Monsieur 50%”, according to his doubles and even quadrupled, unfortunately discovered the pastis, the emblematic spirits of the region … In a letter sent to his mother, Gunnar Andersson explained having problems linked to
“Small yellow drinks distilled by the devil”. Retired, after playing in Montpellier, Aix or Oran, he disappears from the world of football and becomes an alcoholic. He died on October 1, 1969 at the age of 41, after a heart attack near the newspaper writing The Provençal. The top scorer in OM history had come to get tickets there for a cutting cutting match against the Dukla Prague. The terrible end …
