SOCCER PLAYER

Harald Nielsen

1941 - 2015

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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). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harald Nielsen has received more than 111,417 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Harald Nielsen is the 975th most popular soccer player (down from 882nd in 2019), the 259th most popular biography from Denmark (up from 268th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Danish Soccer Player.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.48

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Harald Nielsen ranks 975 out of 21,273. Before him are Rafael Márquez, Billy Wright, Jordi Cruyff, Mitsuo Kamata, György Orth, and Thomas Ravelli. After him are Branco, Masao Takada, Francisco Bru, Tadao Kobayashi, Esteban Cambiasso, and Baltazar Maria de Morais Júnior.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Harald Nielsen ranks 204. Before him are Michael Apted, Boris Vallejo, Kim Hye-ja, Ivanka Khristova, Carla Gravina, and Esther Ofarim. After him are Edmund Stoiber, Prince William of Gloucester, Leslie Lamport, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Wilson Pickett, and Denys Arcand. Among people deceased in 2015, Harald Nielsen ranks 134. Before him are Aleksei Gubarev, Nigel Terry, Edgar Froese, Vicente Aranda, Lesley Gore, and Ron Clarke. After him are Esther Brand, Doris Hart, Ernst Fuchs, Roberto M. Levingston, Robert Conquest, and Valentin Rasputin.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Harald Nielsen ranks 259 out of 1,032. Before him are Paul Gustav Fischer (1860), Elizabeth of Denmark, Electress of Brandenburg (1485), Princess Louise of Denmark (1726), Alexander, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg (1573), Morten P. Meldal (1954), and Hedwig of Denmark (1581). After him are Per Kirkeby (1938), Richeza of Denmark (1174), Erik Axelsson Tott (1419), Princess Louise of Denmark (1875), Sophus Nielsen (1888), and Holger Pedersen (1867).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Denmark

Among soccer players born in Denmark, Harald Nielsen ranks 8. Before him are Allan Simonsen (1952), Richard Møller Nielsen (1937), Preben Elkjær (1957), Poul Nielsen (1891), Søren Lerby (1958), and Kenneth Zohore (1994). After him are Sophus Nielsen (1888), Frank Arnesen (1956), Kasper Schmeichel (1986), John Hansen (1924), Christian Eriksen (1992), and Henning Jensen (1949).

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