Pauli Jørgensen
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Etvin Pauli Carl Jørgensen | ||
| Date of birth | 4 December 1905 | ||
| Place of birth | Frederiksberg, Denmark | ||
| Date of death | 30 October 1993 (aged 87) | ||
| Playing position | Centre forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1916–1917 | B 1908 | ||
| 1918–1919 | Boldklubben Frem | ||
| 1920–1923 | Boldklubben Fix | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1924–1942 | Boldklubben Frem | 297 | (288) |
| National team | |||
| 1925–1939 | Denmark | 47 | (44) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1943–1945 | Boldklubben Frem | ||
| 1947–1948 | Ski- og Ballklubben Drafn | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Etvin Carl Pauli Jørgensen (December 4, 1905 in Frederiksberg – October 30, 1993), known simply as Pauli Jørgensen, was a Danish amateur football player and manager. In his position of centre forward, Jørgensen played 297 matches and scored 288 goals for Boldklubben Frem. He won four Danish championships with Frem as a player, and coached the team to a fifth title. He played 47 international matches and scored 44 goals for the Danish national team, making him the most capped Danish player for 22 years following his retirement. Furthermore, Jørgensen played around 75 matches for the Copenhagen representative team Stævnet.
Pauli Jørgensen was known as the most popular player in Danish football history. In 1930, he was named Best Nordic Centre Forward. In 1971, Pauli Jørgensen was honoured as the Danish football player who had meant the most for the game of football in Denmark during the first 50 years of the Danish Football Association (DBU). In his eighties he made the Guinness book of records as the oldest active football player in Denmark.
Jørgensen played in the centre forward position with an adventurous playing style and an eye for shooting on goal with half-volleyed shots. Though of small stature, he was a strong player with fighting spirit and great heading ability.
Born in Frederiksberg, Pauli Jørgensen played all of his club football within the Copenhagen area. His parents moved to Amager, where he began playing youth football for B 1908 in 1916. While playing for B 1908, the young Pauli watched an exhibition match between local Amager players and players from BK Frem, and was very impressed by the play of Frem's Danish internationals Sophus "Krølben" Nielsen and Sophus Hansen. He moved to the youth team of BK Frem in 1918, where he played alongside later internationals Kaj Uldaler and Knud Christoffersen. Then followed a stint at Amager club BK Fix from 1920 to 1923, while he was studying to become a car mechanic.
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