Stellan Nilsson

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Stellan Nilsson
StellanNilsson1947.jpg
Nilsson in Råsunda in 1947
Personnel
Surname Stellan Nilsson
birthday May 22, 1922
place of birth Lund ,  Sweden
date of death May 27, 2003
size 172 cm
position midfield player
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1942-1950 Malmö FF 156 (56)
1950-1952 Genoa 1893 50 (11)
1952-1954 SCO Angers 39 0(5)
1954 Olympique Marseille 4 0(1)
1954-1955 SCO Angers
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1943-1950 Sweden 17 0(4)
1 Only league games are given.

Stellan Nilsson (born May 22, 1922 in Lund , † May 27, 2003 ) was a Swedish football player . The midfielder , who was part of the squad of the Swedish national team that won Olympic gold, won the national championship title and the national cup three times with Malmö FF .

Career

Nilsson played at Malmö FF when he was young. In 1940, he moved up to the men's team at the age of 18, where he subsequently established himself in the team alongside Kjell Rosén , Börje Tapper , Erik Nilsson and Helge Bengtsson . The first success came in the 1943/44 season , when he won the Von Rosens Cup for the Swedish national championship with the team on the one hand and won the Svenska Cup on the other hand after a 4-3 win against IFK Norrköping . He played his way into the Swedish national team, in which he made his debut on October 3, 1943 in a 1-1 draw against the Finnish national team at the side of Sune Andersson and Gunnar Nordahl .

Nilsson shooting at goal

In the following years Nilsson played regularly with the club for the championship title, which, however , was missed in the seasons 1945/46 and 1947/48 as a table runner-up behind series champion IFK Norrköping . Nevertheless, he did not remain without a title with the team, as further cup successes followed in 1946 and 1947. In the spring of 1948 he left the club briefly to join local rivals IFK Malmö . In the summer, however, he returned to MFF after eleven games.

Nilsson had established himself in the circle of the national team and was therefore part of the national team at the 1948 Olympic Games . In the course of the tournament, which was crowned successfully by a 3-1 final win after goals by Gunnar Gren and Gunnar Nordahl twice against Yugoslavia , he was not used. In the following Allsvenskan season he won his second championship title with the team reinforced by players like Karl-Erik Palmér and Ingvar Rydell . The following year she defended the title by remaining undefeated throughout the season and only allowing two draws and reaching 23 victories in a row between May 15, 1949 and May 7, 1950. The club set another record as they remained unbeaten in 49 consecutive games until 1951.

Nilsson only worked on the last series until the summer of 1950. As a national player, he entered the World Cup tournament in 1950 . This time he was one of the players used by George Raynor , the supervisor of the national selection appointed by a selection committee, and played in the preliminary round match against Italy and in the group winner's final game against Brazil , which ended in a 7-1 defeat.

Through his international appearances, Nilsson had made himself known abroad. Like many of his compatriots, he therefore moved to southern Europe as a professional footballer after the World Cup finals, which ended his national team career after 17 international matches and four selection goals, as Svenska Fotbollförbundet was at the time a strict representative of the amateur idea. His first stop was Genoa in 1893 in the Serie A . Here he played for a year and a half. In the summer of 1952 he went to Angers SCO in France . Here, too, he was active for a year and a half and moved to Olympique Marseille in January 1954 . Here, however, he could not prevail and left the club after a year to return to Angers SCO.

In 1955 Nilsson returned to Sweden. Having once worked as a professional abroad, he was no longer eligible to play in his home country and ended his active career at the age of 33.

successes

  • Olympic champion: 1948
  • Third in the world championship: 1950
  • Swedish champion: 1944, 1949, 1950
  • Swedish Cup: 1944, 1946, 1947

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personal data
SURNAME Nilsson, Stellan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Lund
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 2003