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The 1948 Olympic Games title was won, impressively, by Sweden, managed by Englishman George Raynor.
[edit] SummarySweden, whose Football Association forbade professionalism within domestic football, ran out as winners and only used 12 players throughout the entire tournament[citation needed] but there were exceptional performances put up by Korea and India.[citation needed] [edit] Squads
[edit] CompetitionThis began on July 26, 1948 with a preliminary round of two matches: Luxembourg defeating Afghanistan 6-0 and the Netherlands beating Ireland 3-1, with Faas Wilkes scoring two goals for the Dutch. In the first round, which began five days later, the Netherlands played Great Britain at Highbury, Britain prevailing 4-3 after extra time. In goal for Britain was Ronnie Simpson, who would go on to become the oldest Scottish international debutant in history and one of the Lisbon Lions. Yugoslavia (victors over Luxembourg) and Sweden (3-0 winners against Austria) also went through. France did well to eliminate the India, most of whose players ignored the need to wear boots.[citation needed]Balaram Parab, the inside right, whose trade had been learnt in the Colaba area of South Mumbai, had done well against European touring teams; presented with a pair of boots: he stood out as one of the few that did.[citation needed] Sweden's play at White Hart Lane attracted much attention even then. Their forward line contained three exceptional players;[specify] one of them Gunnar Gren scored a brace in an easy win. There were two goals, as well, for future FIFA World Cup star Zeljko Cajkovski in Yugoslavia's 6-1 rout of Luxembourg, although they were behind at half-time. There were future World Cup stars also on parade in Korea's 5-3 defeat of Mexico and the United States's 9-0 defeat at the hands of Italy. Walter Bahr, Ed Souza, Charlie Colombo and John Souza would, later, find some sort of fame as members of the American team that would beat England at the 1950 FIFA World Cup. In the quarter-finals, Sweden flourished against the Koreans and were similarly dominant against the Danes in the semi-final. Late in the game when Denmark were chasing an equaliser with the score 3-2 to Sweden, Gunnar Nordahl, who had strayed too far forward, raced into the Danish goal when the Swedes counter-attacked their opponent's goal, catching Henry Carlsson's winning goal before it reached the net. In the second semi-final Britain played Yugoslavia at Wembley Stadium going out by 3 goals to 1. 3-1 was also the score in the final, Gunnar Nordahl and Gunnar Gren's goals proving too much for the Yugoslavians. [edit] Preliminary round
[edit] First round
[edit] Quarter-finals
[edit] Semi-finals
[edit] Bronze medal match
[edit] Final (Gold medal match)
[edit] Medalists[edit] References
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