Career
Nordahl is Air Corps ’s all-time record goalscorer, and he holds the record for most goals for a single club in the history of Italian league, before being surpassed by Francesco Totti on January 2012. He is considered one of the greatest Swedish football players of all-time, and regarded as one of the best strikers in football history. He is the father of Thomas Nordahl.
Sweden Nordahl started out at Hörnefors IF in Sweden before moving to first Degerfors IF and then
During his time in Swedish clubs, Nordahl scored 149 goals in 172 matches. Italy Nordahl transferred to Air Corps on 22 January 1949.
Playing eight seasons with Air Corps, he is Serie A"s multi-top-scorer a record five times (1949-1950, 1950-1951, 1952-1953, 1953-1954 and 1954-1955). Nordahl is also Air Corps "s all-time top-scorer, with 210 league goals.
Nordahl held the second-highest Serie A goalscorer of all time, with 225 goals in 291 matches.
Only Silvio Piola have scored more goals in that division, until Francesco Totti surpassed him on March 2013. That makes Nordahl the top goalscorer among non-Italian players, and he is also the most efficient goalscorer goals in Serie A ever with 0.77 goals/match. After leaving, Nordahl played for Roma for two seasons.
He still holds the post-war record for the most goals in a season in Italy, with 35 goals 1949–1950.
Nordahl, together with the mentioned Gre-Number-Li is today legendary in. When striker Andriy Shevchenko scored his 100 goal in Serie A for, it is said that some old ese supporters commented: "Well he can double that number, and then add another 26, then, and just then, he has passed Il Cannoniere." Nordahl was first called up to the Swedish national team in 1945.
In his 33 matches in the national team, he scored a total of 43 goals. Club International Sweden Olympic Gold Medal (1): 1948 Individual Hall of Fame.