Herbert Carlsson

Herbert Karlsson or Knut Herbert " grumbling " Carlsson ( born September 8, 1896 in Gothenburg, † October 21, 1952 ) was a Swedish football player.

Career

Karlsson played for Annedals FF, IK and IK Niord Vega, before moving to IFK Göteborg 1917. With the club he was in his first season Swedish champion.

Karlsson was 1918-1922 in 20 appearances for the Swedish national team on the pitch and scored 19 international goals. For the country selection, he participated in the 1920 Summer Olympics. With seven goals, he finished as top scorer of the tournament.

In 1922 he emigrated to the United States, where he became the first professional player in the Swedish football history. When Herbert Carlson, as he called himself since he first played for the Viking Athletic Club in New York State League, before he joined up in 1923 to work Team Indiana Flooring. The following year, his team joined the American Soccer League, at that time the strongest professional league on the east coast. Here he played three seasons before it with the Viking AC undertook a tour of Scandinavia in the summer of 1927, after the end of which he remained in the home until the spring of 1928. Then he returned to New York and played for the New Nork Nationals, with whom he won the 1929 Ligacup. 1930 the team was renamed the New York Giants and won under this name in 1931 the championship. Later he worked for the New York Americans still Erno Black.

At the Olympic Games in 1936, he returned to Europe and after the tournament he went back to Sweden.

Weblink

• Herbert Carlsson Sports Reference.com (English)

• Olympian (Sweden)
• National football team (Sweden)
• Swede
• Born 1896
• Died in 1952
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