Albert Olsson (soccer player)

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Albert Olsson (born November 28, 1896 in Gothenburg , † October 20, 1977 there ) was a Swedish football player . The player, who was mainly used as a striker and played in the Swedish national team between 1919 and 1927 , won the title of top scorer in the Allsvenskan season in 1926/27 .

Career

Olsson grew up in the Olskroken district of Gothenburg . There he and friends founded their own association under the name IK Höge . He came to GAIS in 1915 at the age of 18 through the Gothenburg clubs Frigg and Celtic . There he quickly moved up to the senior team and made his debut in the local derby against IFK Gothenburg . Two years later he had developed into a regular player. As an attacking player, he knew how to convince and reached the final for Svenska Mästerskapet with his team in February 1919 , in which the Stockholm club Djurgårdens IF defeated with a 4-1 win and thus the club became national champions for the first time in club history. In October of that year he was promoted to the Swedish national team. At the side of Robert Zander , Valdus Lund and his teammates Rune Wenzel and Joel Björkman , he made his debut in a 3-0 win over the Danish national team with three goals from Herbert Karlsson .

In the summer of 1920, Olsson was part of the national team at the Olympic Games in Antwerp . In the opening game against Greece , he scored his first two international goals in a 9-0 win. After a 4-5 defeat after extra time against the Netherlands in the quarter-finals, he was also used in the consolation round in the 1-2 defeat against Spain in the third game of the selection in the course of the tournament. After injuries and an accident in the family he disappeared a short time later from the active football business.

In 1924 Olsson returned to the football field. Just in time at the beginning of the first season in the Allsvenskan he ran on the side of Fritjof Hillén , Konrad Hirsch and Gunnar Holmberg again for GAIS. On August 3 of the year he scored the first goal for the club in the newly introduced league in a 2-1 away win at Helsingborgs IF . With 18 goals in 20 games by the end of the season, he was the club's best internal goalscorer and thus led the club to first place in the Allsvenskan, but the Swedish championship title was not awarded at the time. At the same time, he also briefly returned to the national team and played an international match against Denmark in June. In the following years he also proved to be accurate. After another 18 goals in the following year, which reached second place in the table, he led the team in 1927 with 24 goals in 22 season games again to first place. With these goals he also placed himself in front of Harry Lundahl from Helsingborgs IF, who scored 22 goals in the course of the season, and the 21-time goalscorer Filip Johansson from local rivals IFK Göteborg first in the Allsvenskan's list of goalscorers. Two years after his last international appearance, he was then called back to the national team and played two internationals in which he scored two goals.

In the two following seasons up to 1929, Olsson scored 14 goals each. He was the club's top scorer in the first five Allsvenskan seasons. In the fall of 1929 he ended his active career. In 132 first division games he had scored 104 goals. He also scored five goals in ten international matches.

Following his active career, Olsson distinguished himself as a club official. As early as 1918, as an auditor for GAIS, he had taken on his first tasks away from the football field and, as a player, became deputy club chairman in 1926. For a long time he worked for clubs, including between 1943 and 1960 as a secretary and as a junior coach and talent scout. His main job was to work for the Gothenburg tram .

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