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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 59,568 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Sophus Nielsen is the 1,171st most popular soccer player (up from 1,512th in 2019), the 325th most popular biography from Denmark (up from 355th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Danish Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Sophus Nielsen ranks 1,171 out of 16,880Before him are Toni Polster, Jiří Sobotka, Nery Pumpido, Ladislav Novák, Djalminha, and Müller. After him are Juan Carlos Lorenzo, Hassan Shehata, Marc-Vivien Foé, Masashi Watanabe, Yozhef Sabo, and Altair Gomes de Figueiredo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Sophus Nielsen ranks 127Before him are Léon Scieur, Lotte Lehmann, Harald Sverdrup, Árpád Szakasits, Kan Kikuchi, and Nereu Ramos. After him are Frances Marion, Barry Fitzgerald, Milán Füst, Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, Vladimir Baranov-Rossine, and Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape. Among people deceased in 1963, Sophus Nielsen ranks 93Before him are Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg, Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Ivan Bek, Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, Pingali Venkayya, and Margaret Murray. After him are Vsevolod Ivanov, André Maschinot, Richard Oswald, August Rei, Julius Edgar Lilienfeld, and Vissarion Shebalin.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Sophus Nielsen ranks 325 out of 893Before him are Per Nørgård (1932), Emil Aarestrup (1800), Eugen Schmidt (1862), Henning Carlsen (1927), Jakob Nielsen (1957), and Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae (1821). After him are Georg Mohr (1640), Conrad Malte-Brun (1775), Frank Arnesen (1956), Julius Petersen (1839), August Philipp, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1612), and Peter Freuchen (1886).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Denmark

Among soccer players born in Denmark, Sophus Nielsen ranks 13Before him are Christian Eriksen (1992), Jon Dahl Tomasson (1976), Harald Nielsen (1941), Henning Jensen (1949), Kenneth Zohore (1994), and John Hansen (1924). After him are Frank Arnesen (1956), Simon Kjær (1989), Martin Braithwaite (1991), Kasper Schmeichel (1986), Lars Høgh (1959), and Johnny Hansen (1943).