John Hansen (Danish footballer)
John Hansen with Juventus F.C., during the 1951–52 season
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| Full name | John Angelo Valdemar Østergaard Hansen |
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| Date of birth | 24 June 1924 | |||||||||||
| Place of birth | Copenhagen, Denmark | |||||||||||
| Date of death | 12 January 1990 (aged 65) | |||||||||||
| Place of death | Copenhagen, Denmark | |||||||||||
| Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) | |||||||||||
| Playing position | Inside Forward, Left winger | |||||||||||
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||
| 1943–1948 | BK Frem | 86 | (81) | |||||||||
| 1948–1954 | Juventus F.C. | 187 | (124) | |||||||||
| 1954–1955 | S.S. Lazio | 27 | (15) | |||||||||
| 1957–1960 | BK Frem | 28 | (32) | |||||||||
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| 1947 | Denmark U23 | 1 | (1) | |||||||||
| 1948 | Denmark | 8 | (10) | |||||||||
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| 1956–1957 | BK Frem | |||||||||||
| 1969 | Denmark | |||||||||||
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Honours
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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London 1948 | Team Competition |
John Angelo Valdemar Østergaard Hansen, known simply as John Hansen, (24 June 1924 – 12 January 1990) was a Danish footballer who played as a forward. He played professionally for seven years in Italy: he scored 124 goals in 187 matches for Juventus F.C., and won two Serie A championships with the club, finishing as Capocannoniere top-goal scorer in the 1949–50 Serie A season; he later also played for Italian club S.S. Lazio. He won the 1944 Danish championship with childhood club BK Frem. Hansen scored 10 goals in eight games for the Denmark national football team in 1948, and won a bronze medal with Denmark at the 1948 Summer Olympics. In 1985, Hansen received the Italian order of chivalry.
He was the son of Danish international goalkeeper Niels Peder Hansen, who also played for BK Frem, and was the father of Henning Hansen, who played for BK Frem in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Born in Frederiksberg, Hansen started his career with Copenhagen club BK Frem in the amateur-only Danish league. He played as a left inside wing, was a world-class header of the ball, and could kick the ball equally hard with both legs. With BK Frem, Hansen won the 1944 Danish championship, and was the top goal-scorer of the 1948 Danish championship tournament.
Hansen made his debut for the Danish national team in June 1948, and scored three goals in his first two international games. Playing in the Danish amateur league and having played just two international games, he was not well known outside Scandinavia until he was selected for the Danish team at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. Hansen scored seven goals in four games as Denmark won bronze medals at the tournament, including four goals in Denmark's 5–3 win against the Italian national team. Hansen's Olympic performance made his name well-known across Europe, and drew the attention of several Italian teams. He signed a professional contract in late 1948, which spelled the end of his career in the amateur-only Danish national team following eight games and 10 goals in the span of four months.
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