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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). He was a football entrepreneur having continuously worked for the professionalization of both the Demark national team and the national league. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Harald Nielsen is the 1,082nd most popular soccer player (down from 974th in 2019), the 267th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 259th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Danish Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Harald Nielsen ranks 1,082 out of 21,273. Before him are Karl Rappan, Luis Regueiro, Željko Čajkovski, Alexis Sánchez, Preguinho, and André Onana. After him are Marek Hamšík, Esteban Cambiasso, Periko Alonso, Diego Godín, Thomas Häßler, and Winfried Schäfer.

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Among people born in 1941, Harald Nielsen ranks 226. Before him are Bohdan Stupka, Amir Pnueli, R. James Woolsey Jr., Menzies Campbell, Tom Fogerty, and Josep Maria Fusté. After him are Muhammad Mustafa Mero, Captain Beefheart, Yevhen Marchuk, Andrés García, Eric Braeden, and George Pell. Among people deceased in 2015, Harald Nielsen ranks 143. Before him are Renzo Zorzi, Ignacio Zoco, Anne Meara, Wayne Dyer, Vicente Aranda, and Carlo Furno. After him are Sergio Sollima, Władysław Bartoszewski, Klaus Roth, Robert Conquest, Frances Oldham Kelsey, and Egon Bahr.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Harald Nielsen ranks 267 out of 1,032. Before him are Adam Wilhelm Moltke (1785), Holger Pedersen (1867), Christen Købke (1810), Christen Sørensen Longomontanus (1562), Christian Bohr (1855), and Helena Christensen (1968). After him are Annette Stroyberg (1936), Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann (1805), Hans Tausen (1494), Peter Høeg (1957), Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller (1913), and Kaj Munk (1898).

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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 Henning Jensen (1949). After him are Sophus Nielsen (1888), Jon Dahl Tomasson (1976), Frank Arnesen (1956), Thomas Gravesen (1976), John Hansen (1924), and Kasper Schmeichel (1986).

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