Postcard with a footballer “Uddevalla”

Postcard made in connection with the World Football Championship in Sweden in June 1958. Signed motif with footballers, Rimnersvallen and city motif and the text “UDDEVALLA.” Handwritten text on the back of the postcard. “Gift of Ebbe Josefsson 21 February 1980.” Printed information: Haskel Propaganda, Solna. Print AB Dahlberg & Co, Stockholm The newspaper Bohusläningen on Monday, 9 June 1958 reads: “Around the relatives wedged program vendors and scouts who did good business with pre-city stamped World Cup envelopes and special World Cup postcards.” HISTORY FROM THE VM MATCH IN SOCCER BETWEEN BRAZIL - AUSTRIA ON THE RIM HALL IN UDDEVALLA ON 8 JUNE 1958. After all, there is still the possibility for anyone interested in genuinely fine football to buy a ticket tomorrow’s World Cup match between Brazil and Austria on Rimnersvallen. Last night there were 1000s of standing tickets and a few hundred seats left. The point of sale is expected to have all deleted during the day. Source: Bohusläningen 7 June 1958. Uddevalla’s World Cup day became the big sports party that everyone hoped for. It was color, there were crowds and despite a grey mule weather a sunny mood over town. And in and around the public pothole Rimnersvallen, 20000 pairs of eyes were concentrated on the Brazilian football artists and the systematically effective Austrians in a team-fighting battle over the leather ball, which has never been seen in these tracts. Brasilen won the match by 3-0 after two goals by centre Mazzola and one of the backing Nilton Santos. But the sovereigns of the plan were Bellini and Gylmar. Source: Bohusläningen 9 June 1958. Sunday, 8 June 1958 was a day of branding in Uddevalla’s sports history. At that time, the city hosted a football match for the first time in this year’s World Championship competitions. The newly built Rimnersvallen, which had received international dimensions at a cost of a few million crowns, was of course complete this historic day. About 50 policemen, of whom 20 from the State Police, responded for order and traffic surveillance. The action in the match was Brazil and Austria, and the audience was allowed to experience football of a quality, to which the vast majority had never seen the husband. Among the foreign guests at Rimnersvallen was the Brazilian archbishop, who also walked along in the defiliation before the match. The result was that Brazil won by 3-0. At the Samnerödsfield in the vicinity of Rimnersvallen, at the same time, there was a warm-fair, combined with a pleasure arrangement. West Expo, and here one appreciated his audience to 10.000 people. The Bohuslän also described the day as a real folk festival. In West Expo, among others, the then European champion appeared in heavyweight boxing Ingemar Johansson. Sweden, which was part of the football tournament, was allowed to play its matches at other venues. The team played well and advanced to the final, where one had to face just Brazil, which won by 5-2. Sweden’s second place meant a very honorable effort. Source: 100 years with Bohusläningen p. 216. Copy from the Uddevallablog with permission on 13 May 2016 of the blog’s writer Gunnar Klasson Posts from 2007-08-28 [28 August 2007] Brazil - Austria on Rimnersvallen Åke Hansson asks for the audience figure for the World Cup match in football at Rimnersvallen on 8 June 1958. Fredrik Wallström, who works at Rimnersvallen, mentions in a comment the figure of 17,778 spectators. It is a figure that I would buy without further ado if it was not because today I have been inside reading what Kuriren and Bohusläningen wrote the days after the match. Both newspapers mention 18.300 spectators. It is a suspicious even figure to be an audience figure. The courier also writes that 250 functionaries, 150 journalists, 70 radio men and 50 photographers will be added. Then we would be up in 18,770 spectators everything like everything. After all, what journalists write is not always true and it is quite possible that there has been a control bill later that came to Fredrik Wallström’s figure. It could therefore be interesting to hear where Fredrik found the figure. It should also be mentioned that the Bohusläningen gives a stinging criticism of the Swedish Football Association’s ticket policy. It “has been under all criticism and I can’t draw to the memory’s slightly bigger jumble with regard to tickets sold, tinged and returned than this time.” It also appears that it was similar in the other arenas. Anyway, this was the football match of the century at Rimnersvallen. How Austria prepared for the match has left no trace in either my memory or in the newspapers. This was all about Brazil’s team. I myself was 13 years old and had found out that the Brazilian team would upload the hours before the match inside the Bohusläns regiments area. The disposed Soldathemmet just inside the Inner Guard and Fritidsparken, the present Regementsparken. I and some comrades had forged into the regiment area and had to meet the players inside the Soldathemmet. I just remember that it was a bunch of dark-skinned players, who didn’t really look so worst for the world. The least was a 17-year-old who was not allowed to play on Rimnersvallen but was on the bench. This 17-year-old was Pelé, who had his great breakthrough in the continuation of the World Cup tournament. I think I got the whole team autographs but where is my autograph block today? Sorry, no idea right now otherwise I had posted a picture here. Of a leader, however, I received a Brazilian coin, 10 centimos. It was a small silver coin that did not weigh more than paper. I still have that coin in my hiding places. The Brass played with some footballs on the lawns around Soldathemmet to then be recovered in there. There they fiddled and the drink they drank was named, according to Kuriren, Ovomaltin. On the net I found a description of it. It is a kind of chocolate drink with malt and vitamins. Garincha and Dino played on the labyrinth game that existed and Zito played a truddle route on Soldathemmet’s hammmond organ. The fact that the brasses were housed in the regimental area was due to the fact that they had the entire Brazilian press force behind them that normally guarded every step they took. Here no one passed through the extra guard at the Inner Gate, except we youngsters were understood to have their own loopholes in the Inner Fence. The Rimnersvallen began to be replenished with audiences several hours before the match. I myself was there and stood at the top of the northern steel relative. The gymnastics benches, probably from all the gymnasts in the city, were set on the running tracks and were thus packed. No, not really by the way. It turned out afterwards that there were 1.200 unsold tickets à 6 kroner while many did not get hold of any ticket even though they had been buying long outside the stadium. The Football World Cup was incredibly attentive at home in Brazil and it followed that six Brazilian radio teams were directly referenced. It was, according to Kuriren, “an indescribable inconvenience from radio reporters.” They were just over 30 in number. When one of them got tired there was always a substitute who took by. For three hours, it was broadcast continuously and everything that happened in the arena was depicted home to Brazil. Even Brazil’s archbishop followed the match on the spot at Rimnersvallen. Since the opening ceremonies had been overcome, the teams formed with the following layouts: Brazil - Gylmar, de Sordi, Nílton Santos, Dino, Bellini, Orlando, Joel, Didi, Mazzola, Dida and Zagallo. Austria - Szanwald, Halla, Swoboda, Hanappi, Happel, Koller, Horak, Senekowitch, Buzek, Körner and Schleger. The match started with even play. Much was due to the fact that the Brazilians went on time and again in the eastward sources of the offenders. However, they learned this and in the 38th minute the first goal came for Brazil. In the fifth minute of the second half, 2 - 0 came and the brass struck off noticeably at the pace. The Austrians were by no means harmless but as soon as they approached the targets of the brass they laid on a pair of coal and kept away. 3 - 0 came when there was only one minute left of the match. Mazzola, who had been stuck eight times in the Austrian’s offside sources, this time came free and shot a hard shot in the inside of the burghold. / Posted by Gunnar Klasson in August 2007 Literature: Samba football: a book about Brazil’s national sport, Fredrik Ekelund; pages 54-67 about the World Cup in Sweden in the summer of 1958. The book is a unique depiction of Brazil and its national sport, but also a personal consideration of a country with great contradictions and unimaginable poverty.