Olle Olsson

Olle Olsson first played handball for Lugi HF when he was 12, making his senior début for the team in 1964 when he was just 16-years-old. Apart from one season with IF Saab, due to his military service, Olsson played with Lugi until 1975 before representing AIK for the next five years. During his domestic career in Sweden he played in 136 matches, scoring more than 520 goals. From 1967 to 1977 he also represented the Swedish national team, competing at the 1972 München Olympics and the 1974 World Handball Championship in East Germany.

While Olsson was at AIK he worked in the role of a player-coach, with him continuing with the latter role after retiring as a player in 1980. After a two-year spell coaching IFK Kristianstad he returned to Lugi as their coach from 1982 until 1990. He also coached teams in Norway, Denmark, and Germany, along with a spell as the national coach of the Japanese team, before returning for another stint with Lugi in 1999. Olsson’s final coaching role came in 2000, working with the Saudi Arabia national team until 2002.