Karl Aage Hansen

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Karl Hansen
Personal information
Full name Karl Aage Hansen
Date of birth 4 July 1921
Place of birth Mesinge, Denmark
Date of death 23 November 1990(1990-11-23) (aged 69)
Position(s) Inside forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
19??–1940
KFUM Boldklub
 ? (?)
1941–1948 Akademisk Boldklub ? (?)
1948–1949 Huddersfield Town 15 (3)
1949–1950 Atalanta 37 (18)
1950–1953 Juventus 86 (37)
1953–1954
Sampdoria
 29 (3)
1954–1957 Catania 79 (7)
International career
1943–1948 Denmark 22 (17)
Managerial career
1970 Akademisk Boldklub
1972 Akademisk Boldklub
*Club domestic league appearances and goals
Olympic medal record
Men's Football
Bronze medal – third place 1948 London Team Competition

Karl Aage Hansen (4 July 1921 – 23 November 1990) was a Danish football player, who played as a forward. He won a bronze medal with the Denmark national football team at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.[1] He scored 17 goals in 22 games for the Danish national team, and was Danish team captain on 17 occasions. He got his breakthrough as an amateur player in Danish club Akademisk Boldklub, but moved abroad in 1948 to play professionally for a number of European clubs, including Juventus FC and UC Sampdoria in Italy and Huddersfield Town in England.

Career

Amateur years

Karl Aage Hansen had a strong physique, and was a good

Danish handball championship with HG and represented the Denmark men's national handball team.[4]

Hansen's preferred sport was football,

team captain in 13 games.[7]

In the run-up to the

Carl Aage Præst were selected as Denmark's top performers at the tournament.[8]
Karl Aage Hansen only played two additional international games for Denmark, before he signed a professional contract, and was banned from the amateur-only national team selection.

Professional career

Hansen's first year abroad was spent at

Atalanta Bergamo, and received a transfer fee of approximately DKK150,000.[2] At Atalanta, he played alongside fellow Danish Olympic footballer Jørgen Leschly Sørensen. Hansen scored 18 goals in 37 games,[9] as Atalanta finished in eight place of the 1949–50 Serie A
season.

For the next season, Hansen moved on to defending Serie A champions

Carl Aage Præst. As a part of his contract, Karl Aage demanded a clause to let him change clubs on a free transfer.[2] The three Danes had a great understanding on the pitch. In his first season at Juventus, Karl Aage Hansen scored 23 goals in 34 games, making him the joint third highest goal scorer of the season. During the 1951–52 Serie A season, Karl Aage scored only 12 goals, but in his stead John Hansen stepped up, and became league top goal scorer, as Juventus won the Serie A championship. Karl Aage Hansen played an additional season with Juventus, before leaving the club on a free transfer in 1953. The Juventus leaders thought Karl Aage Hansen over the hill, and would not offer him a satisfactory contract.[2] He played 87 games and scored 37 goals in the Serie A for Juventus.[9]

Karl Aage Hansen had not liked being in Juventus as much as his time in Atalanta, and looked forward to move on. In the end, he chose Serie A rivals

Catania Calcio in 1954.[2] Hansen spent three seasons with Catania, even following the club into the Serie B, when the team was relegated due to match fixing in 1955. He played a total 79 games and scored seven goals for Catania.[9] In 1957, Hansen's professional career was over, and he returned to Denmark. He is estimated to be the member of the Danish 1948 Olympics team who made the most money from his professional career, due to his many lucrative free transfer moves, each time earning the entire transfer fee for himself.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Karl Aage Hansen". Olympedia. Retrieved 13 October 2021.
  2. ^
    ISBN 87-7245-132-7
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  3. ^ a b KFUMs BOLDKLUB Fra klubbens historie Archived 28 January 2015 at the Wayback Machine. Kfum-fodbold.dk.
  4. ^
    ISBN 87-7245-132-7
    .
  5. ^ "LANDSFODBOLDTURNERINGEN 1942/1943 Finale". Archived from the original on 12 December 2007. Retrieved 29 May 2006.
  6. ^ [1] Archived 31 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ [2] Archived 13 September 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ p.383 Archived 16 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine. (PDF) .
  9. ^ a b c Roberto Di Maggio, Danish Players in Italy, RSSSF, 2 January 2005

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