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Orvar Bergmark (16 November 1930 – 10 May 2004) was a Swedish footballdefender, manager and bandy player. He was the second Sweden national manager, and as manager to qualify the Sweden national team for the FIFA World Cup in Mexico 1970, after having beaten France (among others) in the qualifications. The 1970 World Cup was the first one for Sweden in 12 years, and it was also the first time in 20 years that Sweden had qualified for a World Cup. (Sweden hosted the 1958 FIFA World Cup, and hence did not need to qualify. Bergmark was a player for Sweden that year.) Sweden did not qualify for the World Cups in 1954, 1962 and 1966). In 1952 he took part in the Olympic Bandy tournament.
During the tournament, Sweden had a goal-keeping problem. Bergmark used the young Ronnie Hellström in the opening game against Italy, and was displeased with Hellström's performance when Italy scored. The little less talented, but far more experienced Sven-Gunnar Larsson guarded the Swedish goal during the last two matches instead.
Orvar Bergmark left his office soon after the World Cup and was replaced by Georg "Åby" Ericson.
Bergmark was not only a football player who won silver medals at the 1958 FIFA World Cup. He was also an international bandy player, and won silver medals at that sport's World Cup also. He played his bandy for Örebro SK.
In 1980, he organized the first international tournament for bandy ladies. In Örebro, Sweden met Finland, Norway and the Netherlands, and took the first prize.
Bergmark contracted Parkinson's disease around 1980, and died from it in 2004.
Orvar Bergmark in 1958
