Jørgen Juve

Jørgen Juve

Jørgen Juve in the mid-1930s
Personal information
Date of birth	(1906-11-22)22 November 1906
Place of birth	Porsgrunn, Norway
Date of death	12 April 1983(1983-04-12) (aged 76)
Place of death	Oslo, Norway
Playing position	Striker
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1926–1938	Lyn
1930–1931	Basel	12	(10)
National team
1928–1937	Norway	45	(33)
Teams managed
1939	Bodø/Glimt
Honours Olympic medal record Men's Football 1936 Berlin Team
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Jørgen Juve (22 November 1906 – 12 April 1983) was a Norwegian football player, jurist, journalist and non-fiction writer. He played as a striker for Lyn, and also for the Norwegian national team. He is the highest scoring player ever for Norway, with 33 goals out of just 45 games. He was captain of the Norwegian team which won Olympic bronze medals in the 1936 Summer Olympics. He also had a career as a journalist for Dagbladet and Tidens Tegn, and wrote several books.

Juve was born in Porsgrunn; the son of tanner Ole Martin Juve and Marie Pøhner. The family name originates from the farm Juve/Djuve in Lårdal, where his grandfather was born. He was the eldest of six children. His two brothers both emigrated to the United States, while his three sisters married and settled in Norway. Among his childhood friends was later composer Klaus Egge. He was married twice, first to Erna Riberg in 1932, and they had two children. One of their grandchildren is folk singer Tone Juve. He was later married to psychologist Eva Røine, and they had one daughter. He died in Oslo in 1983.

Juve started playing football for the Porsgrunn sports club Urædd, only 16 years old. In 1926 he moved to Oslo, where he started playing for the club Lyn. Juve played in the Norwegian Cup final for Lyn in 1928, but the team lost 2–1 against Ørn-Horten. During the season 1930–1931 he played 12 games for FC Basel in which he scored 10 goals.

He made 45 appearances and scored 33 goals for the Norwegian national team between 1928 and 1937. His first match for the national team was against Finland in June 1928, and his 45th match was against Denmark in June 1937. Juve scored his first goals for Norway in June 1929, when he scored a hat-trick against Netherlands, and during the next seven matches he scored 16 goals. His 33 goals makes Juve top scorer of all time for the Norwegian national football team. He only played as a striker in 22 of those games; the rest he alternated between right-back and centre-half.