Allan Billing

Ernst Allan "Rovern" Billing (born July 12, 1901 , † April 4, 1978 ) was a Swedish football player and coach. In 1929 he played five internationals for the Swedish national team .

Career

Billing played for Örgryte IS between at least 1924 and 1933 . In the first season of the Allsvenskan as a national league with the season 1924/25 he was third in the table. Although he won the league with the club in 1926 and 1928, the championship title was not officially awarded at the time. In 1929 and 1932 he was second in the table, once behind Helsingborgs IF and - after the Swedish league title was awarded from 1931 - as runner-up behind AIK . Until 1933 he played 120 games for Gothenburg alongside Douglas Krook , Sven Friberg , Carl-Erik Holmberg , Robert Zander and Evert Hansson , among others .

1929 appointed the selection committee of Svenska Fotbollförbundet Billing as a selection player in the Swedish national team . In June of that year he made his color debut in a 6-2 win over the Netherlands , his Gothenburg team-mate Sven Rydell scoring three times for the Swedes in that game. By the end of the year he had played a total of five international matches, three of them in the Nordic football championship .

After retiring from his career, he was coach of Örgryte IS from 1938, but was released from his position at the Gothenburg Club after relegation at the end of the 1939/40 season and replaced by Harry Zachrisson .

Nothing is currently known about Billing's further life - especially away from the football field.

Web links

• Allan Billing in the weltfussball.de database
• Allan Billing in the database of weltfussball.at

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Allan billing in: www.svenskagravar.se; accessed on May 23, 2017
2. ↑ webnews.textalk.com: "ÖIS Allsvenska seriemästare - 1926 *)" (accessed on January 7, 2014)
3. ↑ ois.se: "KLUBBDATA" ( Memento from December 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on January 7, 2014)