page_title: Sven Tumba
section_title: Football
hierarchical_section_title: Sven Tumba / Football
caption_attribution_description: English: Sven Tumba and Herny Thillberg Svenska: Sven Tumba och Herny Thillberg
context_page_description: Sven Tumba was one of the most prominent Swedish ice hockey players of the 1950s and 1960s. He also represented Sweden in football as well as golf and became Swedish champion in waterskiing.
  Johansson first became known as "Tumba" in the 1950s since there were other players with the same last name, and he grew up in the Swedish town of Tumba. In October 1960 he married his wife Mona, and five years later he, along with Mona, legally changed his family name to Tumba.
  After his retirement from ice hockey, he became an accomplished golfer, a golf course designer, creator and organizer of golf exhibitions and tournaments, as well as an ambassador to the game of golf, even officially introducing the game of golf to the former Soviet Union.
context_section_description: In the mid-50s Tumba played for Djurgårdens IF, the team which he also became Swedish Champions with. He also represented the Swedish national team. He played one game for the national team (against Norway, 16 September 1956).
caption: Tumba (left) and Henry Thillberg after having scored 5 goals each on Finla nd in a national B team contest
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