1888 - 1963
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, Sophus Nielsen ranks 1,171 out of 16,880. Before 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.
1964 - Present
HPI: 50.91
Rank: 1,165
1911 - 1994
HPI: 50.90
Rank: 1,166
1957 - Present
HPI: 50.90
Rank: 1,167
1931 - 2011
HPI: 50.90
Rank: 1,168
1970 - Present
HPI: 50.89
Rank: 1,169
1966 - Present
HPI: 50.89
Rank: 1,170
1888 - 1963
HPI: 50.88
Rank: 1,171
1922 - 2001
HPI: 50.87
Rank: 1,172
1947 - Present
HPI: 50.87
Rank: 1,173
1975 - 2003
HPI: 50.87
Rank: 1,174
1936 - 1995
HPI: 50.85
Rank: 1,175
1940 - Present
HPI: 50.85
Rank: 1,176
1938 - 2019
HPI: 50.85
Rank: 1,177
Among people born in 1888, Sophus Nielsen ranks 127. Before 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 93. Before 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.
1888 - 1969
HPI: 51.37
Rank: 121
1888 - 1976
HPI: 51.34
Rank: 122
1888 - 1957
HPI: 51.14
Rank: 123
1888 - 1965
HPI: 51.10
Rank: 124
1888 - 1948
HPI: 51.05
Rank: 125
1888 - 1958
HPI: 50.90
Rank: 126
1888 - 1963
HPI: 50.88
Rank: 127
1888 - 1973
HPI: 50.86
Rank: 128
1888 - 1961
HPI: 50.85
Rank: 129
1888 - 1967
HPI: 50.76
Rank: 130
1888 - 1913
HPI: 50.71
Rank: 131
1888 - 1944
HPI: 50.36
Rank: 132
1888 - 1981
HPI: 50.35
Rank: 133
1889 - 1963
HPI: 51.41
Rank: 87
1892 - 1963
HPI: 51.23
Rank: 88
1909 - 1963
HPI: 51.17
Rank: 89
1890 - 1963
HPI: 51.14
Rank: 90
1876 - 1963
HPI: 50.91
Rank: 91
1863 - 1963
HPI: 50.89
Rank: 92
1888 - 1963
HPI: 50.88
Rank: 93
1895 - 1963
HPI: 50.86
Rank: 94
1903 - 1963
HPI: 50.78
Rank: 95
1880 - 1963
HPI: 50.51
Rank: 96
1886 - 1963
HPI: 50.34
Rank: 97
1882 - 1963
HPI: 50.25
Rank: 98
1902 - 1963
HPI: 50.23
Rank: 99
Among people born in Denmark, Sophus Nielsen ranks 325 out of 893. Before 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).
1932 - Present
HPI: 51.07
Rank: 319
1800 - 1856
HPI: 51.06
Rank: 320
1862 - 1931
HPI: 51.01
Rank: 321
1927 - 2014
HPI: 50.95
Rank: 322
1957 - Present
HPI: 50.94
Rank: 323
1821 - 1885
HPI: 50.93
Rank: 324
1888 - 1963
HPI: 50.88
Rank: 325
1640 - 1697
HPI: 50.87
Rank: 326
1775 - 1826
HPI: 50.86
Rank: 327
1956 - Present
HPI: 50.81
Rank: 328
1839 - 1910
HPI: 50.79
Rank: 329
1612 - 1675
HPI: 50.76
Rank: 330
1886 - 1957
HPI: 50.76
Rank: 331
Among soccer players born in Denmark, Sophus Nielsen ranks 13. Before 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).
1992 - Present
HPI: 52.69
Rank: 7
1976 - Present
HPI: 52.64
Rank: 8
1941 - 2015
HPI: 52.51
Rank: 9
1949 - 2017
HPI: 51.40
Rank: 10
1994 - Present
HPI: 51.31
Rank: 11
1924 - 1990
HPI: 51.30
Rank: 12
1888 - 1963
HPI: 50.88
Rank: 13
1956 - Present
HPI: 50.81
Rank: 14
1989 - Present
HPI: 50.24
Rank: 15
1991 - Present
HPI: 50.02
Rank: 16
1986 - Present
HPI: 49.57
Rank: 17
1959 - 2021
HPI: 48.70
Rank: 18
1943 - Present
HPI: 48.52
Rank: 19