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Evald Tipner

Evald Tipner
Personal information
Full name Evald Tipner
Date of birth (1906-03-13)13 March 1906
Place of birth Tallinn, Russian Empire
Date of death 18 July 1947(1947-07-18) (aged 41)
Place of death Tallinn, Estonian SSR,
Soviet Union
Playing position Goalkeeper, Striker
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Sport Tallinn 112 (18)
National team
1924–1939 Estonia 66 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 1 January 2000.
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 1 January 2000

Evald Tipner (13 March 1906 – 18 July 1947) was Estonian football, ice hockey and bandy player. He was capped 66 times for Estonian national football team, 7 times for bandy national team and once for ice hockey team. Tipner was also a good track and field athlete. Some sources report him as the first goalscorer in the history of World Cup preliminary competition, having scored what would be an own goal for Sweden against Estonia 7 minutes into the game, on 11 June 1933, in Stockholm. Some other sources consider this was not an own goal, and that it was actually scored by Swedish captain Knut Kroon.

Tipner was mainly a goalkeeper, but he also played in his club as a striker. He was a good penalty taker as well.

Tipner played 7 games and scored 9 goals for national team during 1927–1934.

In 1924 he played one game for national hockey team.


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