Harald Nielsen
Danish footballer (1941-2015)
Harald Ingemann Nielsen (26 October 1941 – 11 August 2015) was a Danish footballer. He played professionally for Italian club Bologna F.C. where he was the league top scorer (capocannoniere) in Bologna's 1964 Serie A championship winning season.
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| Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Harald Ingemann Nielsen | |||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 26 October 1941 | |||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Frederikshavn, Denmark | |||||||||||||
| Date of death | 11 August 2015 (aged 73) | |||||||||||||
| Place of death | Bologna, Italy | |||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Centre forward | |||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
| 1959–1961 | Frederikshavn fI | 50 | (44) | |||||||||||
| 1961–1967 | Bologna | 157 | (81) | |||||||||||
| 1967–1968 | Internazionale | 8 | (2) | |||||||||||
| 1968–1969 | Napoli | 10 | (2) | |||||||||||
| 1969–1970 | Sampdoria | 4 | (0) | |||||||||||
| Total | 229 | (129) | ||||||||||||
| National team | ||||||||||||||
| 1959–1960 | Denmark | 14 | (15) | |||||||||||
Honours
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only | ||||||||||||||
Nielsen played 14 games for the Denmark national football team in 1959 and 1960, scoring 15 goals, and he was known as Guld-Harald (Gold-Harald). He was part of the Danish team that were runners-up at the 1960 Summer Olympics. He was a football entrepreneur having continuously worked for the professionalization of both the Danish national team and the national league.[1]
Career statistics
change| Club | Season | League | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | ||
| Bologna | 1961–62 | Serie A | 16 | 8 |
| 1962–63 | Serie A | 29 | 19 | |
| 1963–64 | Serie A | 31 | 21 | |
| 1964–65 | Serie A | 31 | 13 | |
| 1965–66 | Serie A | 29 | 12 | |
| 1966–67 | Serie A | 21 | 8 | |
| Inter Milan | 1967–68 | Serie A | 8 | 2 |
| Napoli | 1968–69 | Serie A | 10 | 2 |
| Sampdoria | 1969–70 | Serie A | 4 | 0 |
Honours
changeBologna
- Mitropa Cup (Coupe Centrale D'Europe): 1961–62; runner-up 1962–63
- Italian Serie A Championship: 1963–64
Denmark
Individual
- Årets Fund (Oldest Danish Sports Prize): 1959
- Danish Championship – Topscorer in the Tournament: 1960 (19 goals)
- Topscorer in the Olympic Football Tournament: Rome 1960 (6 goals)
- First Danish Player of the Year: 1961
- Mitropa Cup Topscorer in the Tournament: 1961–62, 1962–63
- Caltex Sportsman Dell'Anno: 1963–64 on YouTube
- Serie A – Capocannoniere (Topscorer in the tournament): 1962–63 (21 goals), 1963–64 (19 goals)
- Cavaliere/Knight Order of Merit of the Italian Republic: 1992
- Sportens Ridderkors: 2002
- Nettuno d'oro: 2004
- Honorary President Rebild National Park Society: 2007
- First Honorary Member of F.C. Copenhagen: 2007
- Danish Football Hall of Fame: 2010 Archived 2014-08-12 at the Wayback Machine[2]
- Protektor F.C. Copenhagen Legends Club: 2014
Films
change- Far til fire med fuld musik, Denmark, 1961 (in Danish)
References
change- ↑ Nielsen, Harald; Lindskog, John (2002). Kaerlighed A/S (in Danish). Copenhagen: People's Press. ISBN 9788770550727.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
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