Harald Nielsen
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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 | 178 cm (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||
| Playing position | Centre forward | |||||||||||
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||
| 1959–1961 | Frederikshavn fI | 50 | (44) | |||||||||
| 1961–1967 | Bologna | 157 | (81) | |||||||||
| 1967–1968 | Internazionale | 8 | (2) | |||||||||
| 1968–1969 | Napoli | 10 | (2) | |||||||||
| 1969–1970 | Sampdoria | 4 | (0) | |||||||||
| Total | 229 | (129) | ||||||||||
| National team | ||||||||||||
| 1959–1960 | Denmark | 14 | (15) | |||||||||
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Harald Ingemann Nielsen (26 October 1941 – 11 August 2015) was a Danish association footballer who played as a striker. 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 football 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 Danish national team and the national league.
Harald Nielsen was born in Frederikshavn and started his footballing career in hometown club Frederikshavn fI, where he debuted in the second-highest Danish league in March 1959. From his position of center forward, Nielsen finished the top scorer of the league as Frederikshavn won promotion to the Danish football championship.
In the top Danish league, Nielsen debuted for Frederikshavn against Boldklubben Frem in March 1960. Frederikshavn won 3–1, with Harald Nielsen scoring all three goals. The team finished the league in fifth place with Nielsen becoming league top scorer.
In 1961, Harald Nielsen moved abroad to play professionally for Bologna F.C. in Italy. At Bologna, il freddo danese (the cold Dane) was a part of the 1963–64 Serie A winning squad, and he was the Italian league topscorer in both 1963 and 1964. Following six seasons at Bologna, Harald Nielsen moved to Inter in 1967, in a transfer deal which made him the most expensive player in the world at the time. Although he started by winning the unofficial world cup for teams by beating Santos with Pele 1–0 in New York, Nielsen did not find the same degree of success with Inter as in Bologna, and following years at S.S.C. Napoli and U.C. Sampdoria a back injury kept him mostly off the field, he ended his career in 1970.
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