{{Short description|Swedish footballer (1936–2025)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2024}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Harry Bild | image = Harry Bild 1965.jpg | upright = 0.9 | caption = Bild in 1965 | full_name = Harry Sven-Olof Bild | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1936|12|18}} | birth_place = Växjö, Sweden | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2025|01|16|1936|12|18}} | death_place = Växjö, Sweden | height = | position = Striker | years1 = 1956–1964 | clubs1 = IFK Norrköping | caps1 = 175 | goals1 = 120 | years2 = 1964–1965 | clubs2 = FC Zürich | caps2 = 17 | goals2 = 6 | years3 = 1965–1967 | clubs3 = Feyenoord | caps3 = 52 | goals3 = 39 | years4 = 1968–1973 | clubs4 = Östers IF | caps4 = 115 | goals4 = 42 | totalcaps = 359 | totalgoals = 207 | nationalyears1 = 1957–1968 | nationalteam1 = Sweden | nationalcaps1 = 28 | nationalgoals1 = 13 | manageryears1 = | managerclubs1 = }}
'''Harry Sven-Olof Bild''' (18 December 1936 – 16 January 2025) was a Swedish professional footballer who played as a striker. Starting off his career with IFK Norrköping in 1956, he went on to represent FC Zürich and Feyenoord before retiring at Östers IF in 1973. A full international between 1957 and 1968, he won 28 caps and scored 13 goals for the Sweden national team. In 1963, he was awarded Guldbollen as Sweden's best footballer of the year.
==Club career== Born in Växjö he was transferred to IFK Norrköping during the 1950s. He turned professional for FC Zürich in Switzerland and for Feyenoord in the Netherlands, scoring 39 goals in 52 games.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Strack-Zimmermann |first=Benjamin |title=Harry Bild (Player) |url=https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/41622/Harry_Bild.html |access-date=2024-05-31 |website=www.national-football-teams.com |language=en}}</ref> He returned to his homeland to join Östers IF in 1967 and won the Swedish national title in 1968. Between 1968 and 1973, he scored 42 goals in 113 matches for Östers.
== International career == Bild made 28 appearances and scored 13 goals for the Sweden national football team and he won Guldbollen in 1963.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.svenskafans.com/fotboll/spelare-vi-minns-intervju-med-harry-bild-533873|title=Spelare vi minns-intervju med Harry Bild|publisher=Svenska Fans|author=Gunnar Käll|language=sv|date=26 June 2015|access-date=28 January 2021}}</ref>
== Death == Bild died from cancer on 16 January 2025, at the age of 88.<ref>{{cite news |title=Harry Bild har gått bort: "Han var älskad och respekterad både i Växjö och i Norrköping" |url=https://www.smp.se/2025-01-17/harry-bild-har-gatt-bort-han-var-alskad-och-respekterad-bade-i-vaxjo-och-i-norrkoping/ |access-date=17 January 2025 |publisher=SMP |date=17 January 2025}}</ref>
== Honours == '''Individual'''
* Stor Grabb: 1962 * Guldbollen: 1963
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== {{Commons}} * {{worldfootball.net|harry-bild|new_id=pe73567}} * {{NFT player|41622}} * [http://www.osterfotboll.com/content/view/68/92/lang,se/] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080101103343/http://www.osterfotboll.com/content/view/68/92/lang,se/ |date=1 January 2008 }} * [http://wwwc.aftonbladet.se/sport/guldbollen/1963.html]
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