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Richard Møller Nielsen

1937 - 2014

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Richard Møller Nielsen (19 August 1937 – 13 February 2014) was a Danish football player and manager. He coached the Denmark national football team that won the UEFA Euro 1992 tournament. In 1995, he was awarded a gold version of the Medal of Merit. He was the father of Tommy Møller Nielsen. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Møller Nielsen is the 312th most popular soccer player (up from 357th in 2019), the 138th most popular biography from Denmark (up from 147th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Danish Soccer Player.

Richard Møller Nielsen was a Danish football player and coach. He is most famous for leading the Denmark national football team to victory in the 1992 European Championship, and then to the final of the 1998 World Cup, where they lost to Brazil.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Richard Møller Nielsen ranks 312 out of 21,273. Before him are Careca, Akira Nozawa, Piet Keizer, Fernando Torres, Yukio Goto, and Gianluca Vialli. After him are Ken Noritake, Ángel Di María, Iván Zamorano, Marcelo, David Villa, and Junji Nishikawa.

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Among people born in 1937, Richard Møller Nielsen ranks 72. Before him are Andrei Konchalovsky, Valentyn Sylvestrov, Thomas Pynchon, Paolo Conte, Roger Zelazny, and Joseph Nye. After him are Anatoly Sobchak, Rubin Carter, Rafael Moneo, George Carlin, Maryanne Trump Barry, and Kōichirō Matsuura. Among people deceased in 2014, Richard Møller Nielsen ranks 64. Before him are Hans Hollein, Louis Zamperini, Stephanie Kwolek, Dale T. Mortensen, Ernesto Laclau, and Ernst Albrecht. After him are Rubin Carter, Maurice Duverger, Vujadin Boškov, Miklós Jancsó, Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba, and Mary Anderson.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Richard Møller Nielsen ranks 138 out of 1,032. Before him are Princess Ingeborg of Denmark (1878), Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel (1784), Louis Hjelmslev (1899), Martin Andersen Nexø (1869), Jussi Adler-Olsen (1950), and Giancarlo Esposito (1958). After him are Piet Hein (1905), Ole Kirk Christiansen (1891), Theophil Hansen (1813), Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1783), Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1776), and Wilhelm Johannsen (1857).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Denmark

Among soccer players born in Denmark, Richard Møller Nielsen ranks 3. Before him are Peter Schmeichel (1963), and Allan Simonsen (1952). After him are Preben Elkjær (1957), Poul Nielsen (1891), Søren Lerby (1958), Henning Jensen (1949), Harald Nielsen (1941), Sophus Nielsen (1888), Jon Dahl Tomasson (1976), Frank Arnesen (1956), and Thomas Gravesen (1976).

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