John Hansen (footballer, born 1924)

John Hansen
Hansen with Juventus in the early 1950s
Personal information
Full name John Angelo Valdemar
Østergaard Hansen
Date of birth 24 June 1924[1]
Place of birth Copenhagen, Denmark
Date of death 12 January 1990(1990-01-12) (aged 65)
Place of death Copenhagen, Denmark
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s) Inside Forward, Left winger
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1943–1948[2] BK Frem 86 (81)
1948–1954[3] Juventus 187 (124)
1954–1955[3] Lazio 27 (15)
1957–1960[2] BK Frem 28 (32)
Total 328 (252)
International career
1947[4] Denmark U23 1 (1)
1948[4] Denmark 8 (10)
Managerial career
1956–1957[2] BK Frem
1969[5] Denmark
Medal record
Representing Denmark
Men's Football
Bronze medal – third place 1948 London Team Competition
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

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 FC, and won two Serie A championships with the club, finishing as Capocannoniere top-goal scorer in the 1951–52 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.[6] In 1985, Hansen received the Italian order of chivalry.[2]

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.

  1. ^ John Hansen's gravesite (in Danish)
  2. ^ a b c d (in Danish) Steen Bjerre, John Hansen Archived 24 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine, Boldklubben Frem, 13 February 2008.
  3. ^ a b RSSSF – Danish players in Italy
  4. ^ a b Danish national team profile
  5. ^ Jimmie Thomsen, DBUs landstrænere i perioden 1967–69 Archived 27 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine, RSSSF, 26 November 2001, published by Danish Football Association
  6. ^ "John Hansen". Olympedia. Retrieved 13 October 2021.