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Karl Aage Hansen

1921 - 1990

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Karl Aage Hansen (4 July 1921 – 23 November 1990) was a Danish football player, who played as a forward. He won a bronze medal with the Denmark national football team at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. He scored 17 goals in 22 games for the Danish national team, and was Danish team captain on 17 occasions. He got his breakthrough as an amateur player in Danish club Akademisk Boldklub, but moved abroad in 1948 to play professionally for a number of European clubs, including Juventus FC and UC Sampdoria in Italy and Huddersfield Town in England. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karl Aage Hansen is the 3,116th most popular soccer player (down from 2,487th in 2019), the 499th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 451st in 2019) and the 31st most popular Danish Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Karl Aage Hansen ranks 3,116 out of 21,273Before him are Germano Boettcher Sobrinho, Raymond Bellot, Luis Díaz, Silva Batuta, Alain Perrin, and Ángel Atienza. After him are Anto Drobnjak, Anton Janda, Antoni Piechniczek, Alexandru Borbely, Marko Pantelić, and Sergio Romero.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Karl Aage Hansen ranks 326Before him are Joseph Iléo, Ruth Orkin, Al Pease, Bertil Antonsson, Fernando Roldán, and Isabella Bashmakova. After him are Dennis Brain, Alan Freed, Francis Blanche, Ilka Gedő, Roger Bocquet, and Čestmír Vycpálek. Among people deceased in 1990, Karl Aage Hansen ranks 224Before him are Ludwig von Moos, Dan Ayrault, Walter Sedlmayr, Léopold Anoul, Turan Dursun, and Adri van Male. After him are Cazuza, Max Bense, Arno Arthur Wachmann, Giorgio Scarlatti, Ann Bishop, and Charlotte Moore Sitterly.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Karl Aage Hansen ranks 499 out of 1,032Before him are Leif Mortensen (1946), Kenneth Brylle (1959), Katy Bødtger (1932), Ole Lund Kirkegaard (1940), Flemming Povlsen (1966), and Peter Arnold Heise (1830). After him are Villy Sørensen (1929), Jens Jørgen Hansen (1939), Bent Hansen (1933), Henning Enoksen (1935), Princess Sophia Hedwig of Denmark (1677), and Nils Asther (1897).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Denmark

Among soccer players born in Denmark, Karl Aage Hansen ranks 31Before him are Nicklas Bendtner (1988), Ivan Nielsen (1956), Christian Poulsen (1980), Ebbe Sand (1972), Kenneth Brylle (1959), and Flemming Povlsen (1966). After him are Jens Jørgen Hansen (1939), Bent Hansen (1933), Henning Enoksen (1935), Jesper Olsen (1961), John Eriksen (1957), and Martin Braithwaite (1991).