- Gunder Bengtsson
Gunder Bengtsson (born
2 february 1946 , inTorsby ) is a former Swedishassociation football coach.Bengtsson started his career as assistent coach under
Sven-Göran Eriksson atIFK Göteborg . In 1982, after Eriksson won theUEFA Cup 1981-82 and left the club forBenfica , Bengtsson became head coach for a few months. After that he went to Norwegian clubVålerengen IF , with which he became champion in 1983 and 1984.After a short time at Portuguese club Madeira, where he was fired after a few months, and a short return at Vålerenge, he became head coach of IFK Göteborg from 1985 to 1987. In his last year, Göteborg again won the
UEFA Cup 1986-87 . After this Bengtsson left the club forPanathinaikos FC , where he worked for the season 1988-1989.In december 1989 he was appointed head coach of
Feyenoord , next to junior coachPim Verbeek . Feyenoord had made a bad start of the season and was at the bottom of the charts. The stubborn Bengtsson couldn't make any impression inRotterdam . He tried to get the team together with fine systems and endless conditional trainings, but failed. That year Feyenoord finished 11th. In his second season at Feyenoord, the results again were disappointing. In march 1991 he, and second coach Verbeek, were fired, and replaced byWim Jansen .After his stay with Feyenoord, Bengtsson became coach for PAOK Salonika and
Apollon Limassol , among others.In 2001 Bengtsson became coach of the Norwegian
Molde FK . At his appointment he told the press Molde FK would become the biggest club in Norway in 2005. In may 2003 he left the club, saying, from his angle, there wasn't enough progression in the club. After this he retired from professional football.References
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