Lars-Åke Lagrell's son Sebastian Lagrell confirms to SVT that his father died on Monday morning.
- He has been ill for a while and his heart could not take it anymore.
It went calmly and quietly, he says.
Lars-Åke Lagrell was chairman of the Swedish Football Association between the years 1991 and 2011, before that he was general secretary of the same association for eleven years.
- Lars-Åke Lagrell's efforts for Swedish football are invaluable, and he was and remains a great source of inspiration for me and many others, says current chairman Karl-Erik Nilsson to the association's website.
Engaged in several Jönköping clubs
Over the years, Lagrell also became involved in IK Cyrus, Östers IF, Jönköpings Södra and Smålands fotbollförbund.
But above all, he came to be at the forefront of Swedish football for 30 years.
“When he succeeded Lennart Johansson as chairman of SvFF, his interest in football in Sweden was at something of a low point.
Interest in the Allsvenskan was deep-frozen, and the men's national team had just failed in the 1990 World Cup after a long and gloomy 80s. ", The association writes on the website and continues:
Lars-Åke himself never personally took credit for the monumental turn that followed.
He always emphasized the popular movement aspect of football, how many people were involved in the important decisions: the annual meeting, the elected representatives, the interest groups. "
Posted picture on Twitter
Sebastian Lagrell, who is club manager in Jönköpings Södra, has posted a picture on Twitter and writes "Thank you for everything dad!".
- It obviously feels hard, but it is a part of life, he says to SVT on Monday afternoon.