Rolf Holmström, born 7 September 1932 in Bureå

Bureå

Bureå is a locality situated in Skellefteå Municipality, Västerbotten County, Sweden with 2,345 inhabitants in 2005. The famous Bure kinship is associated with the locality....

, Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 is a former Swedish soccer player.

Playing career

Holmström played 12 games in Allsvenskan

Allsvenskan

Allsvenskan is a Swedish professional league for association football clubs. At the top of the Swedish football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. Contested by 16 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with Superettan...

 in the 1959 season, scoring three goals. Holmström is most known as scorer of nine goals in a league derby in Division 2 (the series below the top flight) in 1957. His team Skellefteå AIK

Skellefteå FF

Skellefteå FF is a football club in Skellefteå, Västerbotten, Sweden. The club was founded in 1921, and was then called Skellefteå AIK Fotboll, a name it kept until 2006. In the 2010 season, the club played in the Division 2 Norrland league.-Background:...

 won the game with a 12-1 cushion. A relatively small, but robust and tough center with a great shooting ability, Holmström caught the attention of several top Swedish clubs, but injuries cut the career short. He was also a well-known bandy

Bandy

Bandy is a team winter sport played on ice, in which skaters use sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal.The rules of the game have many similarities to those of association football: the game is played on a rectangle of ice the same size as a football field. Each team has 11 players,...

player, featuring in the Northern Swedish team.