Putte Kock

{{Short description|Swedish sportsman}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2019}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Putte Kock

| image = Putte Kock.jpg

| image_size = 230px

| caption = Kock at the card table in 1941 (cover of the Swedish weekly magazine Se)

| fullname = Rudolf Kock

| height =

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1901|6|29||df=y}}

| birth_place = Stockholm, Sweden

| death_date = {{death date and age|1979|10|31|1901|6|29|df=y}}

| death_place = Stockholm, Sweden

| currentclub =

| clubnumber =

| position = Left wing (football)

| youthyears1 =

| youthclubs1 = AIK

| years1 = 1915–1928

| clubs1 = AIK

| caps1 =

| goals1 =

| years2 = 1926

| clubs2 = → US Suisse (loan)

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| goals2 =

| nationalyears1 = 1919–1925

| nationalteam1 = Sweden{{cite book |editor-last=Frantz |editor-first=Alf |editor-last2=Glanell |editor-first2=Tomas |editor-last3=Persson |editor-first3=Gunnar |title=Det svenska fotbollslandslaget 1908–2008 |publisher=CA Strömberg AB |year=2008 |location=Vällingby |language=Swedish |trans-title= The Swedish National Football Team 1908–2008 |isbn=978-91-86184-69-8}}

| nationalcaps1 = 37

| nationalgoals1 = 12

| manageryears1 = 1932–1934

| manageryears2 = 1943–1956

| managerclubs1 = Djurgården

| managerclubs2 = Sweden (as chairman of the Selection Committee)

| medaltemplates = {{MedalCountry|{{SWE}}}}

{{MedalOlympics}}

{{MedalBronze| 1924 Paris | Football team}}

{{MedalEuropeanChampionships}}

{{MedalSilver| 1922 St. Moritz |Ice hockey team}}

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Rudolf "Putte" Kock (29 June 1901 – 31 October 1979) was a Swedish football, ice hockey and bridge player who won a bronze medal in the 1924 Summer Olympics{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ko/rudolf-kock-1.html |title=Rudolf Kock |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160403020552/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ko/rudolf-kock-1.html |archive-date=3 April 2016}} as a football player, being voted the best left winger after the tournament.[http://www.bolletinen.se/sfs/hof_meriter.htm SFS] (Swedish football historians and statisticians) He also made six caps for the Swedish ice hockey team, including the Ice Hockey European Championship 1922, and scored five goals.[http://sok.se/idrottare/idrottare/r/rudolf-kock.html "Rudolf Kock"]. Swedish Olympic Committee (sok.se).

After having to end his career prematurely due to a knee injury, he worked as a football coach with AIK's rivals Djurgården and with the national team (1943–1956). Together with George Raynor he qualified Sweden for the 1948 Summer Olympics where they won gold, the 1950 FIFA World Cup (bronze) and the 1952 Summer Olympics (bronze).{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/27247 |title=Putte Kock |work=Olympedia |access-date=19 August 2021}}

After his coaching career Kock became a famous and well liked sports commentator on Swedish television.