Photo: Coralli / Public domain (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
Persson belongs to a vanishing breed that genuinely fascinates me: the multi-sport athlete from a less specialized age. A Swede who played football, ice hockey, and bandy, he starred as a forward for AIK and represented his country at both the 1936 Olympics and the 1938 World Cup. That kind of seasonal versatility is almost unthinkable today. Add in a boxer brother, Harry Persson, and you have a portrait of an athletic family from a rougher, more romantic era of sport. I'm less interested in his statistics than in the sheer breadth of his career, which speaks to a different way of being an athlete.
Overview
Erik "Lillis" Persson (19 November 1909 – 1 February 1989) was a Swedish football forward who played for AIK. He also played for Team Sweden at the 1936 Summer Olympics, and at the 1938 FIFA World Cup in France. His brother was boxer Harry Persson.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Erik Persson
- Name (Japanese)
- エリク・ペーション
- Reading
- えりく・ぺーしょん
- Born
- November 19, 1909 – February 1, 1989
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Scorpio / Rooster
- Origin
- Sankt Matteus, Stockholm County, Sweden
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- association football player / ice hockey player / bandy player / association football coach
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Association football player — see all → · Ice hockey 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.