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Poul Pedersen

1932 - 2016

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Poul Ebbesen Pedersen (31 October 1932 – 23 December 2016), simply known as Poul Pedersen, was a Danish amateur football (soccer) player, who won a silver medal with the Denmark national football team at the 1960 Summer Olympics. He was the first player to reach 50 caps for the Danish national team, scoring 17 national team goals in the process. On the club level, Pedersen played his entire career for Aarhus club AIA. Pedersen played the position of inside forward for AIA but was moved out as an outside winger when representing the Danish national team. He was a box-to-box midfielder, often making last-ditch saves as a defender before sprinting the length of the field to participate in attacking moves. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Poul Pedersen is the 5,320th most popular soccer player (up from 5,592nd in 2019), the 628th most popular biography from Denmark (up from 651st in 2019) and the 63rd most popular Danish Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Poul Pedersen ranks 5,320 out of 21,273. Before him are Dario Hübner, Míchel, Dmitri Alenichev, José Rodrigues Neto, Jan Möller, and Rudolf Kotormány. After him are Diego Florentín, Branislav Hrnjiček, Jean-François Domergue, Guillermo Díaz, Peter Persidis, and Jiro Hiratsuka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Poul Pedersen ranks 504. Before him are Sheree North, Roger Smith, Prunella Scales, Lou Jones, Mike Hodges, and Anatoli Isayev. After him are Djibril Tamsir Niane, Kiril Rakarov, Kurt Schmid, Mikhail Ogonkov, Gaetano Starrabba, and John Jakes. Among people deceased in 2016, Poul Pedersen ranks 496. Before him are Mrinalini Sarabhai, Karel Husa, Igor Sergun, Florence Henderson, James Stacy, and Anatoli Isayev. After him are Ilkka Hanski, Allan Williams, Tim LaHaye, Nancy Mackay, Gurdial Singh, and Rita Barberá.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Poul Pedersen ranks 628 out of 1,032. Before him are Kim Andersen (1958), Poul Ruders (1949), Niels Arden Oplev (1961), Kent Nielsen (1961), Hans-Henrik Ørsted (1954), and Deepika Padukone (1986). After him are Henrik Svensmark (1958), Søren Petersen (1894), Brian Priske (1977), Pia Tafdrup (1952), Jac Nellemann (1944), and Anders Peter Nielsen (1867).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Denmark

Among soccer players born in Denmark, Poul Pedersen ranks 63. Before him are Birger Jensen (1951), Ole Qvist (1950), Bjørn Rasmussen (1885), Michael Krohn-Dehli (1983), Ole Rasmussen (1952), and Tommy Troelsen (1940). After him are Brian Priske (1977), Viggo Jensen (1947), Ole Kjær (1954), Thomas Christiansen (1973), Troels Rasmussen (1961), and Lars Elstrup (1963).

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