Harald Nielsen
Danish footballer (1941–2015) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the footballer. For the American physicist, see Harald Herborg Nielsen. For the Danish boxer, see Harald Nielsen (boxer).
Harald Ingemann Nielsen (26 October 1941 – 11 August 2015) was a Danish footballer who played as a forward. 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. Harald Nielsen played 14 games for the Denmark national team in 1959 and 1960, scoring 15 goals, and he was known as Guld-Harald (Gold-Harald). He was a football entrepreneur having continuously worked for the professionalization of both the Demark national team and the national league.[1]
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Full name | Harald Ingemann Nielsen | |||||||||||||
Date of birth | (1941-10-26)26 October 1941 | |||||||||||||
Place of birth | Frederikshavn, Denmark | |||||||||||||
Date of death | 11 August 2015(2015-08-11) (aged 73) | |||||||||||||
Place of death | Klampenborg, Denmark | |||||||||||||
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||||
Position(s) | Forward | |||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
1959–1961 | Frederikshavn fI | 50 | (44) | |||||||||||
1961–1967 | Bologna | 157 | (104) | |||||||||||
1967–1968 | Internazionale | 8 | (2) | |||||||||||
1968–1969 | Napoli | 10 | (2) | |||||||||||
1969–1970 | Sampdoria | 4 | (0) | |||||||||||
Total | 229 | (129) | ||||||||||||
International career | ||||||||||||||
1959–1960 | Denmark | 14 | (15) | |||||||||||
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
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