11 Facts About Harald Nielsen

Harald Ingemann Nielsen was a Danish footballer who played as a forward.

Harald Nielsen played professionally for Italian club Bologna FC where he was the league top scorer in Bologna's 1964 Serie A championship winning season.

Harald Nielsen played 14 games for the Denmark national team in 1959 and 1960, scoring 15 goals, and he was known as Guld-Harald.

Harald Nielsen was a football entrepreneur having continuously worked for the professionalization of both the Demark national team and the national league.

Harald Nielsen was born in Frederikshavn and started his footballing career in hometown club Frederikshavn fI, where he debuted in the second-highest Danish league in March 1959.

From his position of center forward, Nielsen finished the top scorer of the league as Frederikshavn won promotion to the Danish football championship.

In 1961, Harald Nielsen moved abroad to play professionally for Bologna FC in Italy.

Harald Nielsen made his debut for the Denmark national team on 13 September 1959 against Norway in Oslo, as the youngest Denmark national team player ever.

Denmark finished runners-up and Harald Nielsen was the leading goals scorer of the tournament with 6 goals.

Harald Nielsen led the Gunnar Nu Foundation for 18 years until 2009 and presided the distribution of over DKK 9 million to Danish sports in those years.

Harald Nielsen wrote six books during his football career, which became known as the "Harald-Books" during the 1960s.