Harald Nielsen
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.
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Nielsen in the early 1960s | ||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Harald Ingemann Nielsen | |||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 26 October 1941 | |||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Frederikshavn, Denmark | |||||||||||||
| Date of death | 11 August 2015 (aged 73) | |||||||||||||
| Place of death | Klampenborg, Denmark | |||||||||||||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Forward | |||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
| 1959–1961 | Frederikshavn fI | 50 | (44) | |||||||||||
| 1961–1967 | Bologna | 157 | (104) | |||||||||||
| 1967–1968 | Internazionale | 8 | (2) | |||||||||||
| 1968–1969 | Napoli | 10 | (2) | |||||||||||
| 1969–1970 | Sampdoria | 4 | (0) | |||||||||||
| Total | 229 | (129) | ||||||||||||
| International career | ||||||||||||||
| 1959–1960 | Denmark | 14 | (15) | |||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | ||||||||||||||
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