Pauli Jørgensen
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| Personal information | ||
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| Full name | Pauli Jørgensen | |
| Date of birth | December 4, 1905 | |
| Place of birth | Frederiksberg, Denmark | |
| Date of death | October 3, 1993 (aged 87) | |
| Playing position | Centre forward | |
| Youth clubs | ||
| 1916-1917 1918-1919 1920-1923 |
B 1908 Boldklubben Frem Boldklubben Fix |
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| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1924-1942 | Boldklubben Frem | 283 (245) |
| National team | ||
| 1925-1939 | Denmark | 47 (44) |
| Teams managed | ||
| 1944 ca. 1946 |
Boldklubben Frem Ski- og Ballklubben Drafn |
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Pauli Jørgensen (December 4, 1905 in Frederiksberg - October 30, 1993) was a Danish national and international football centre forward and club manager. He was the most capped player for the Danish national team for 22 years (1939-1961).
Jørgensen played 283 matches for Boldklubben Frem between 1924 and 1942 and became Danish champion with Frem in 1931, 1933, 1936, and 1941. In the 1936-37 season he topped the score table with 19 goals. He won the Danish championship as a manager for Frem in 1944. He played 47 international matches for Denmark, including 12 as captain and scored 44 goals between 1925 and 1939. Furthermore Jørgensen played around 75 matches for the Copenhagen representative team Stævnet.
Pauli Jørgensen was honoured as the Danish football player who had meant the most for the game of football in Denmark during the first 50 years of Dansk Boldspil Union (DBU). In his eighties he made the Guinness book of records as the oldest active football player in Denmark.
[edit] Honours
- Individual
- Best Nordic Centre Forward: 1930
- Danish 1st Division Top Goalscorer: 1926-27
- Most Valuable Player in the First 50 Years of the Danish FA: 1971
- Team
- Danish Championships: 1930-31, 1932-33, 1935-36 and 1940-41 with Frem
- Danish Cup: 1927, 1938 and 1940 with Frem
- Coach
- Danish Championship: 1943-44 with Frem
[edit] Bibliography
Autobiography
- Skyd - Pauli : Fodboldspilleren Pauli Jørgensens Erindringer, Arnkrone, 1944
[edit] External links
- Danish national team profile
- (Danish) Paulis "den blå bog" at BK Frem's website
- (Danish) Pauli Jørgensen - fra folkehelt til folkepensionist at BK Frem's website
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