Knud Lundberg

Knud Lundberg
Lundberg (1956)
Born	(1920-05-14)14 May 1920 Copenhagen, Denmark
Died	12 August 2002(2002-08-12) (aged 82) Gentofte
Association football career Position(s) Forward Senior career* Years Team Apps (Gls) 1939–1959 AB International career 1944–1956 Denmark 38 (10) Managerial career 1971 AB *Club domestic league appearances and goals Handball career Senior clubs Years Team Handelsstandens Gymnastikforening National team 1 Years Team Apps (Gls) 1940–1956 Denmark 23 (26) 1 National team caps and goals correct as of 12 June 2020 Basketball career
Career history
1950–1953	Denmark 18 (74 points)[1]

Medal record
Men's football
Representing  Denmark
Olympic Games
	1948 London	Team competition

Knud Lundberg (14 May 1920 – 12 August 2002) was a Danish multi-talented sportsperson, who most notably won a bronze medal with the Denmark national football team at the 1948 Summer Olympics.^[2] He represented the Denmark national team in football, handball and basketball, and he won the Danish national championship in all three disciplines. He played his footballing career at Akademisk Boldklub.

In his civil life, Lundberg studied medicine and sports. Along with his athletic career, Lundberg worked as a sports journalist, and he was the first sports editor at the Danish newspaper Dagbladet Information, a sports editor at the social democratic newspaper Aktuelt, editor of the annual Fodbold Jul are among his other editorial posts. After ending his sporting career, he, among other things, was a social democratic regional politician and a writer. The number of books written solely by Lundberg or teaming up with other writers adds up to more than 50 with themes ranging from health to sports and fiction. His writings included the four-volume Dansk Fodbold; a chronicle of Danish football from 1939 to 1989, published for the 100th anniversary of the Danish Football Association.

In the last years of his life, Lundberg suffered from Alzheimer's disease.