Sophus Nielsen
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| Personal information | ||
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| Full name | Sofus Erhard Nielsen | |
| Date of birth | March 15, 1888 | |
| Place of birth | Copenhagen, Denmark | |
| Date of death | August 6, 1963 (aged 75) | |
| Place of death | Copenhagen, Denmark | |
| Playing position | Forward | |
| Youth clubs | ||
1898-1902 1902-1904 |
Concordia Stjernen BK Frem |
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| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1904-1910 1910-1911 1912-1921 |
BK Frem Holstein Kiel BK Frem |
18 (72) 137 (125)[1] |
| National team | ||
| 1908-1919 | Denmark | 20 (16) |
| Teams managed | ||
| 1933 1940 |
Holstebro BK Denmark |
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Sophus Erhard "Krølben" Nielsen (March 15, 1888 – August 6, 1963) was a Danish amateur football (soccer) player and manager, and the first player in history to score ten goals in a full national team match. Nielsen scored a total 16[2] goals in 20 games for the Denmark national football team, and won silver medals at the 1908 and 1912 Summer Olympics. He was named Danish national team manager for two games in 1940.
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[edit] Biography
Born in Copenhagen, Nielsen started his senior career with local team Boldklubben Frem. He spent most of his club career with Frem.
Nielsen was called up to the first official Danish national team selection, for the 1908 Summer Olympics.[3] Nielsen scored one goal in Denmark's first ever national team game, as the France B team was defeated 9-0. On October 22, 1908 Denmark played France A and the Danes won 17-1. Sophus Nielsen scored a record ten goals; in the 3rd, 4th, 6th, 39th, 46th, 48th, 52nd, 64th, 66th, and 76th minute.[4] Denmark went on to win silver medal, after they were defeated 0-2 by Great Britain in the final.
Nielsen's record was matched in the 1912 Olympics, as Germany's Gottfried Fuchs scored 10 in a 16-0 win against Russia. It was not broken until 2001, when Australia's Archie Thompson scored 13 goals in a 31-0 defeat of American Samoa.
After having served his apprenticeship as a blacksmith with Burmeister & Wain, Nielsen and his unemployed carpenter brother Carl, decided to travel Europe as journeymen. Though the two brothers only made it as far as to Kiel where they met the chairman of the local football club Holstein Kiel, whom Sophus knew from an earlier trip with Frem. The chairman provided Sophus and Carl with jobs as a master blacksmith and joiner respectively. In exchange the brothers would sign up to play football with Holstein Kiel.[5]
Nielsen went on to win another silver medal at the 1912 Summer Olympics, in which he scored two goals in three games.
After his retirement, he managed Holstebro BK for a short time in 1933. In 1940, he was named interim manager of the Danish national team, and managed Denmark to two draws with Sweden in October 1940.
[edit] International goals
- Scores and results list Denmark's goal tally first.
[edit] Honours
| Olympic medal record | |||
| Men's Football | |||
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| Silver | 1908 London | Team competition | |
| Silver | 1912 Stockholm | Team competition | |
[edit] Footnotes and references
- ^ Number of matches and goals for Frem is for 1904-1910 and 1912-1921 altogether. 125 goals might not be accurate.
- ^ 17, according to some reports.
- ^ Hurtig dribling gennem 5000 år. Danish Football Association (5 April 2007).
- ^ Boxscore of Denmark-France match
- ^ Jørgensen, Palle Banks (2004). Landsholdenes 2198 spillerprofiler : fra Krølben til Krøldrup. Tipsbladet, pp.268.
[edit] External links
- Danish national team player profile
- Danish national team manager profile
- Haslund.info profile
- (Danish) Fodboldlegender
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| Persondata | |
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| NAME | Nielsen, Sophus Erhard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nielsen, Sophus; "Sophus Krølben" |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 15, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 6, 1963 |
| PLACE OF DEATH | Copenhagen, Denmark |
