Ove Karlsson (footballer)

Gustav Edhem Ove Karlsson, from 1957 Ove Widricks, ( born August 2, 1915 in Malmo, † 23 May 1982) was a Swedish football player. The defender, who was an international match for the Swedish national team in 1945, ran in the Allsvenskan for Malmö FF and AIK in over 200 games.

Career

Karlsson grew up in Malmö district Östergård. He began playing football at BK Flagg, before the mid-1930s Malmö FF joined. There he became one of the mainstays of the team that helped to establish the club in Allsvenskan. On the side of Hans Håkansson, Erik Nilsson, Kjell Sture Mårtensson and Rosén played the trained welders in the following years in the Premier League and reached in the season 1938/39, with the club the best to date results of the club's history. By the summer of 1943, he played 114 top-flight appearances for the club in which he was denied a score.

In the summer of 1943 Karlsson joined within the Allsvenskan AIK to. At the Club from Solna he established himself right away in the root formation and missed in his first three seasons, not minutes. On the side of Harry Nilsson, Börje Leander and Henry Carlsson he participated with the team on foreign tours in the Netherlands and Turkey, but also played against Stanley Matthews. In September 1945, he played himself in the national team. On the side of another debutant as Birger Rosengren and Knut Nordahl he came in a 6-1 victory over the Finnish national team with goals of the five -goal Börje Tapper and Oskar Holmquist on 30 September in Helsinki at his international debut.

1948 Karlsson left AIK after 104 first division matches in the direction IFK Eskilstuna. There, he covered until the summer of 1951, the Office of the players coach, before he ended his active career. He then oversaw the unterklassig antretenden clubs Älgarna IF and IF Brommapojkarna. He later returned as a supervisor of the B- team to AIK back.

1957 Karlsson changed his name to Widricks, but remained among the followers under his old name a household name.