SOCCER PLAYER

John Hansen

1924 - 1990

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John Angelo Valdemar Østergaard Hansen, known simply as John Hansen, (24 June 1924 – 12 January 1990) was a Danish footballer who played as a forward. He played professionally for seven years in Italy: he scored 124 goals in 187 matches for Juventus FC, and won two Serie A championships with the club, finishing as Capocannoniere top-goal scorer in the 1951–52 Serie A season; he later also played for Italian club S.S. Lazio. He won the 1944 Danish championship with childhood club BK Frem. Hansen scored 10 goals in eight games for the Denmark national football team in 1948, and won a bronze medal with Denmark at the 1948 Summer Olympics. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Hansen is the 1,579th most popular soccer player (down from 1,147th in 2019), the 341st most popular biography from Denmark (down from 291st in 2019) and the 13th most popular Danish Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, John Hansen ranks 1,579 out of 21,273. Before him are Kálmán Mészöly, Orvar Bergmark, Rafinha, Yang Song-guk, Afonsinho, and David Kipiani. After him are José Augusto, Nobuko Jashima, Manuel Velázquez, Kasper Schmeichel, Givi Chokheli, and Jaroslav Pollák.

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Among people born in 1924, John Hansen ranks 234. Before him are Isadore Singer, Eduardo Paolozzi, Juan Carlos González, Max Roach, Jean-François Revel, and Budge Patty. After him are Klaus Huber, Luděk Pachman, Erik Balling, György Lázár, Maurice Karnaugh, and Jean Laplanche. Among people deceased in 1990, John Hansen ranks 138. Before him are Aldo Fabrizi, Luís Carlos Prestes, Rodolfo Orlandini, Del Shannon, Vladimir Stoychev, and Zhang Qun. After him are Carl A. Wirtanen, Jorge Bolet, Alberto Lleras Camargo, Xu Xiangqian, Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, and Otto E. Neugebauer.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, John Hansen ranks 341 out of 1,032. Before him are Jens Baggesen (1764), Alexander, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg (1573), Palle Huld (1912), Karin Michaëlis (1872), Christian Frederik Hansen (1756), and Hans Wegner (1914). After him are Prince Frederick William of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1668), Edgar Aabye (1865), Kasper Schmeichel (1986), Knud Enemark Jensen (1936), Ghita Nørby (1935), and Erik Balling (1924).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Denmark

Among soccer players born in Denmark, John Hansen ranks 13. Before him are Henning Jensen (1949), Harald Nielsen (1941), Sophus Nielsen (1888), Jon Dahl Tomasson (1976), Frank Arnesen (1956), and Thomas Gravesen (1976). After him are Kasper Schmeichel (1986), Kim Vilfort (1962), Christian Eriksen (1992), Johnny Hansen (1943), Simon Kjær (1989), and Karl Aage Præst (1922).

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