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My Take
Anders Limpar is the kind of player I will always cherish: a small, left-footed conjurer who treated football as theatre. Born in Solna, Sweden, he wandered through Brommapojkarna, Young Boys, Cremonese, Arsenal, Everton and beyond across two decades, and that nomadic CV reads like an adventure rather than restlessness. At just 174 cm he relied on dribbling, vision and unpredictability to light up a crowd, winning the Guldbollen as Sweden's best player in 1991. I have always loved technicians who win matches with a single flash of imagination, and Limpar was precisely that sort of magician.
Overview
Anders Erik Limpár (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈanːdɛʂ ˈlɪmˌpɑːr]; born 24 September 1965) is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Limpar featured for the clubs IF Brommapojkarna, Young Boys, Cremonese, Arsenal, Everton, Birmingham City, AIK, Colorado Rapids and Djurgårdens IF during a career that spanned between 1981 and 2002.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Anders Limpar
- Name (Japanese)
- アンデシュ・リンパル
- Reading
- あんでしゅ・りんぱる
- Born
- September 24, 1965 (age 60)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Libra / Snake
- Origin
- Solna Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 174 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- association football player
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
Awards & achievements
- 1991 Guldbollen
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Association football player — see all → · More people from Sweden →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.