Swedish ice hockey player
Sigfrid Öberg
Born Sigfrid Emil Öberg
(1907-02-22 ) 22 February 1907Died 2 April 1949(1949-04-02) (aged 42) Ice hockey player
Association football career
Position(s)
Forward
Hammarby IF Years
Team
Apps
(Gls ) 1925–1935
Hammarby IF
124
(54)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals
Bandy career
Playing position
Forward Years
Team
Apps†
(Gls)† 1925–1939
Hammarby IF
1929–1933
Sweden
3
(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).
Sigfrid "Sigge" Öberg (22 February 1907 – 2 April 1949) was a Swedish ice hockey , football and bandy player, known for representing Hammarby IF in all three sports.
He won a silver medal with the Swedish national hockey team at the 1928 Winter Olympics and four domestic league titles with Hammarby.[1] [2]
Athletic career
Ice hockey
In 1926, at age 18, Öberg made his debut for Hammarby IF in Elitserien , Sweden's top tier.[3] He would go on to form a feared forward line with Helge Johansson and Erik Larsson in the upcoming years.[4] [5]
Öberg won four Swedish championships – in 1932, 1933, 1936 and 1937 – with the club,[6] their first domestic titles.[7]
He was known as a physical right winger and a particularly skilled skater,[8] who possessed a great shooting ability and stickhandling.[9]
Öberg won 25 competitive caps for the Swedish national team , scoring a total of 6 goals, and represented his country at several major tournaments; the biggest achievement was winning the silver medal in the 1928 Winter Olympics .[8] Öberg is a recipient of the honorary award Stora Grabbars Märke and was inducted into the Swedish Hockey Hall of Fame in 2012; both awards are handed out by the Swedish Ice Hockey Association .[10]
He retired from ice hockey in 1939.[11]
Öberg also played football with Hammarby IF and made his debut for the senior team in 1926, at age 18.[3]
Up until his retirement from the sport in 1935, Öberg made 124 league appearances for Hammarby in the Swedish second tier Division 2 , scoring 54 goals playing as a forward.
Bandy
Öberg was also a prominent bandy player for Hammarby IF between 1925–1939. He was a member of the Swedish national team and won a total of five caps for his country.[9] As well as in ice hockey, Öberg was a recipient of the honorary award Stora Grabbars Märke in bandy, an award that is handed out by the Swedish Bandy Association .[13]
Personal life
He grew up in a working-class home in a southern part of Stockholm known as Södermalm , where he lived his whole life. On 2 April 1949, Öberg died by drowning in the waterway Hammarbyleden , at the age of 42.[9]
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