Otto Carlsson (soccer player)

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Otto Carlsson (born December 16, 1901 , † March 1, 1982 ) was a Swedish football player and coach.

Player career

societies

Carlsson started playing football at Limhamns IF at the age of 15 and, after a two-year stay at Malmö Läroverks IF, moved to the IFK Malmö sports boarding school at the beginning of 1920 . Two years later, in January 1920, he moved up to the first team, for which he played until the end of 1921.

For reasons of vocational training he came to Germany and began an apprenticeship as a businessman in Lübeck. In this city he joined Lübeck BV before moving to Hamburger SV in 1922 .

The Victoria - challenge cup for the German soccer champions from 1903 to 1944 - won the Hamburger SV for the first time in 1923 and again in 1928.

He played his first point games in the 1922/23 championship held by the North German Football Association in the Alster circle of the Greater Hamburg league . As the winner of this emerged, he took part with the team in the finals for the North German Championship . Through the successful qualification game against Borussia Harburg , the successful quarter-final game at Eintracht Hannover and the bye in the semifinals, he moved into the final with Hamburger SV. The final held on April 29, 1923 in the Hoheluft Stadium against Holstein Kiel was won 2-0. In the final round of the German Championship in 1923 , he made his debut on May 13 in Altona in a 2-0 victory in the quarter-finals with Guts Muts Dresden . He then played the semi-finals held in Szczecin on May 27 , which was won 3-2 against VfB Königsberg . He was part of the team that won the German championship 3-0 against SC Union Oberschöneweide on June 10 at the German Stadium in Berlin in front of 64,000 spectators . He finished the following season with Hamburger SV with two titles; first he won the championship in the Greater Hamburg district for the first time, then and again the North German championship.

From the start of the 1924/25 season to the start of the 1926/27 season , he did not appear at Hamburger SV. The reason for this was the return to Sweden to meet his conscription . At times he was registered with again at his former club IFK Malmö.

When he returned to Hamburger SV, he played for them until 1933 , interrupted by the 1929/30 season , in which he temporarily played 15 point games for IFK Malmö in Fotbollsallsvenskan , the top division in Swedish football.

In 1927/28 he played his last four finals for the German championship, at the end of which he won the title again. After he had successfully contested the last sixteen and quarter-finals with the team and won 8-2 against FC Bayern Munich in the semifinals , they won against Hertha BSC 5-2 with him on July 29 at the Altona stadium . During his club membership (until December 1933) he played 194 competitive games for Hamburger SV, including 20 final round matches for the German championship.

After his time in Hamburg, he rejoined Lübeck BV, to which he belonged from January 1934 to 1941. He played the 1934/35 season in the second-rate district class , so he came as district champion from 1935 to 1938 in the Gauliga Nordmark , in one of initially 16, later increased to 23 Gauligen at the time of National Socialism as the uniform top division in the German Reich for use.

Stations

  • 1920 to 1921: IFK Malmö
  • 1922: Lübeck BV 03
  • 1922 to 1924: Hamburger SV
  • 1924 to 1926: IFK Malmö
  • 1926 to 1929: Hamburger SV
  • 1929 to 1930: IFK Malmö
  • 1930 to 1933: Hamburger SV
  • 1934 to 1941: Lübeck BV 03

National team

Carlsson played two international matches for the Swedish national team in 1926 . On his national team debut, he met the national team of Germany . The test match held on June 20 at the Zerzabelshof sports park in Nuremberg ended in a 3-3 draw. Almost two weeks later he ran in the Sparta Stadium in Prague in the 2: 4 defeat against the national team of Czechoslovakia , in the game divorced from Erwin Braun he was again without a goal of his own.

successes

Coaching career

In 1942 he finally returned to Sweden and worked as a coach in his home country, including for the first division clubs IK Brage and IFK Malmö.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Match pairing on dfb .de
  2. ↑ Match pairing at svenskfotboll.se
personal data
SURNAME Carlsson, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1901
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1982