Bo Johansson

Bo Johansson
Personal information
Date of birth	28 November 1942 (age 81)
Place of birth	Kristdala, Sweden
Managerial career
Years	Team
1973	Kalmar FF
1974–1976	Lindsdals IF
1977–1978	Kalmar FF
1979–1981	Östers IF
1982–1983	Kalmar FF
1984–1985	FK Jerv
1986–1988	Östers IF
1988–1989	Panionios
1990–1991	Iceland
1992–1994	Silkeborg IF
1995	HJK Helsinki
1995–1996	Kalamata
1996–2000	Denmark
2003–2004	IFK Göteborg
2005	Molde FK
2010	Åtvidabergs FF (assistant)

Bo "Bosse" Johansson (born 28 November 1942) is a Swedish former football player and current football coach.

Career[edit]

Johansson was a player for fourteen years with Kalmar FF and Lindsdals IF, though he did not win any trophies as a player. In 1977, he was appointed coach for his former club of Kalmar FF, a job he held for two years before switching to local rivals Öster IF. He would remain there for three years, leading Östers IF to back-to-back Swedish Allsvenskan championships in 1980 and 1981. Johansson went on to coach Norwegian club FK Jerv, Greek club Panionios NFC, and started an international career coaching the Iceland national team. He would have to wait 13 years for his next title, until 1994 when he led Danish team Silkeborg IF to the national Danish Superliga championship.

In 1996, he was appointed Denmark national team coach, taking over from Richard Møller Nielsen who had managed the Danish team to the 1992 European Championship (Euro 1992) title, but had subsequently suffered lacklustre results. Bo Johansson presented a more offensive way of playing and he was successful in revitalising the Danish team, leading it to the 1998 FIFA World Cup in France, which was to become one of the heights in Danish football. Despite a loss in the group stage to later tournament winners France, Denmark managed to go through to the final 16 where they put an attractive style of football on display, beating Nigeria 4–1 before losing out 3–2 in the quarter-final to the later silver medalists from Brazil.

"Bosse" could not live up to the result and play at the 1998 World Cup two years later at the Euro 2000 in the Netherlands and Belgium. The Danish team lost all the games in the group stage and was eliminated. In 1999, Bo Johansson had made public that he wouldn't continue with the team after the tournament but he always remained popular. Following the Danish exit he was applauded off the pitch by the Danish fans. Totally, he coached the Danish national team throughout 40 matches, resulting in 17 victories, nine draws and 14 losses.

In 2003, he was appointed coach for the Swedish club IFK Göteborg, he retired in 2004. He made a comeback in 2005, leading Molde F.K. to victory in the Norwegian Cup. However, the club had a disappointing season in the league, and Johansson quit after the season. 2010, he returned to coaching as assisting coach in the Swedish club Åtvidaberg.

Honours[edit]

Östers IF

Allsvenskan: 1980, 1981

Silkeborg IF

Danish Superliga: 1994

Molde FK

Norwegian Cup: 2005

External links[edit]

Danish national team statistics
(in Danish) Philosophy