Lennart Johansson made a big impression in world football.
For 17 years, he led the European football association Uefa as its president – no one has held the post longer – and during his time Sweden was able to organize the European Championship play-offs and the Champions League was launched.
But Johansson, who died in 2019 after a period of illness at the age of 89, is also strongly associated with AIK.
Johansson was chairman of the club between 1967 and 1980, and since 1999 was honorary chairman.
On October 19 this year, when AIK meets Häcken, he will be immortalized with a sculpture in his permanent place at the Friends arena.
The sculpture is life-size, made of bronze and will be placed in Johansson's place during all upcoming matches and events.
"Keeping the AIK family together was important to Lennart Johansson.
AIK Huvudförening is therefore very proud and happy to have participated in the work with Lennart's memorial sculpture," says Cecilia Wahlman, president of AIK to the club's website.
The commemorative sculpture is financed and donated to AIK by Uefa.
"When it's time for the unveiling, it will be an occasion of great symbolic value for Swedish and European football and an occasion that will forever be preserved in football history," says the Swedish Football Association's board chairman Karl-Erik Nilsson.
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