Carl Hansen (footballer)

Carl Hansen
Personal information
Full name Carl William Hansen
Date of birth (1898-05-07)7 May 1898
Place of birth Copenhagen, Denmark
Date of death 19 May 1978(1978-05-19) (aged 80)
Place of death Copenhagen, Denmark
Position(s) Striker
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1915 ØB
1915–1921 B 1903 22 (14)
1921–1925 Rangers 23 (14)
1927–1928 B 1903
International career
1918–1921 Denmark 7 (3)
Managerial career
1933 BK Fremad Amager
AB
1941–1943 B93
1943–1948 B 1903
1949–1952 B93
1952 Denmark
1962 BK Frem
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Carl Vilhelm "Skoma'r" Hansen,[1] simply known as Carl "Skoma'r" (17 May 1898 – 19 May 1978), was a Danish association football player and coach. He played in the forward position, and won the Danish championship with Boldklubben 1903 before moving abroad to play for Scottish club Rangers F.C. as the first professional player in Danish football history. With Rangers, he won four Scottish championships. Hansen played seven games and scored three goals for the Denmark national football team, and was a part of the Denmark team at the 1920 Summer Olympics. As a coach, he managed a number of Danish teams and won the Danish championship with AB.

Skoma'r was a nickname he got after his father's profession as a shoemaker (da:Skomager), and he was most commonly known in Denmark as Carl Skoma'r.[2] He was the older brother of Danish international Henry Hansen.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference haslund was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Lundberg, Knud (1986). Dansk Fodbold. Vol. 1. Fra Breslau til Bronceholdet. Copenhagen: Rhodos. p. 30. ISBN 87-7245-132-7.