SOCCER PLAYER

Sophus Nielsen

1888 - 1963

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Sophus Erhard "Krølben" Nielsen (15 March 1888 – 6 August 1963) was a Danish amateur football player and manager, and the first player in history to score ten goals in a full national team match. Nielsen scored a total 16 goals in 20 games for the Denmark national team, and won silver medals at the 1908 and 1912 Summer Olympics. He was named Denmark national team manager in 1940, and he was a pioneer in educating Danish coaches. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sophus Nielsen has received more than 66,514 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Sophus Nielsen is the 1,017th most popular soccer player (up from 1,171st in 2019), the 264th most popular biography from Denmark (up from 323rd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Danish Soccer Player.

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  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Sophus Nielsen ranks 1,017 out of 21,273. Before him are Virgil van Dijk, Christoph Daum, Schubert Gambetta, Arda Turan, João Cancelo, and Marek Hamšík. After him are Lippo Hertzka, Pietro Vierchowod, Eraldo Monzeglio, Claude Le Roy, Guido Masetti, and Antonio Puerta.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Sophus Nielsen ranks 109. Before him are Harukichi Hyakutake, Archduke Karl Albrecht of Austria, José Félix Estigarribia, Domenico Tardini, Mohammed Hussein Heikal, and Léon Scieur. After him are Carl Hilpert, Marcel L'Herbier, Michał Sopoćko, Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch, Lead Belly, and Sigfried Giedion. Among people deceased in 1963, Sophus Nielsen ranks 81. Before him are Robert Stroud, Edith Hamilton, Ernesto Lecuona, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Ernst Marischka, and Alfred Wünnenberg. After him are Adolphe Menjou, Marie Marvingt, Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg, Pascual Ortiz Rubio, Luis Cernuda, and Elmore James.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Sophus Nielsen ranks 264 out of 1,032. Before him are Hedwig of Denmark (1581), Harald Nielsen (1941), Per Kirkeby (1938), Richeza of Denmark (1174), Erik Axelsson Tott (1419), and Princess Louise of Denmark (1875). After him are Holger Pedersen (1867), Princess Thyra of Denmark (1880), Karl Verner (1846), Holger Drachmann (1846), Henning Carlsen (1927), and Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann (1805).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Denmark

Among soccer players born in Denmark, Sophus Nielsen ranks 9. Before him are Richard Møller Nielsen (1937), Preben Elkjær (1957), Poul Nielsen (1891), Søren Lerby (1958), Kenneth Zohore (1994), and Harald Nielsen (1941). After him are Frank Arnesen (1956), Kasper Schmeichel (1986), John Hansen (1924), Christian Eriksen (1992), Henning Jensen (1949), and Johnny Hansen (1943).

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