Eigil Nielsen (soccer player)

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Eigil Nielsen
Personnel
birthday December 6, 1948
place of birth Hjørring ,  Denmark
date of death December 26, 2019
Place of death Hjørring ,  Denmark
position midfield player
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1966-1969 Hjørring IF
1970-1971 Kjøbenhavns Boldklub
1971-1974 FC Winterthur 54 (13)
1974-1988 FC Basel 90 (18)
1979-1980 FC Luzern 17 0(1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1971-1975 Denmark 10 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Eigil Nielsen (born December 6, 1948 in Tårs , Hjørring municipality , † December 26, 2019 in Hjørring) was a Danish football player .

Career

Nielsen began his professional career at Hjørring IF in Denmark's second-class 2nd division . In 1970 he was brought into the 1st division by the Kjøbenhavns Boldklub .

On July 27, 1971 in Denmark's 3-2 victory over Japan , Nielsen made his first appearance in the national team . He will play a total of eleven games for the Danish national team by 1975.

After a season in Copenhagen, Winterthur's coach Willy Sommer brought him to Switzerland for FC Winterthur in the highest Swiss league, where he became one of the team's supporters as midfield director. With his free kicks and shots from the second row, he was not only a team support, but also the midfielder with the most goals in Winterthur. Sommer called Nielsen several times "the best player I have ever trained". At the beginning of the 1974/75 season, FC Winterthur had to sell him to FC Basel , not least because of financial difficulties .

With Basel he was cup winner in 1975 and in the next season ( 1976/77 ) Swiss champion and the best foreign player in Switzerland. Two years after this success, he moved to FC Luzern in 1979 for 80,000 francs , for which he played 17 games in the National League A. A broken fibula with a torn ankle ligament during the game against FC St. Gallen in April 1980 meant that Nielsen's career ended prematurely.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A-LANDSHOLDSPILLERE EIGIL NIELSEN. (No longer available online.) Haslund.info, archived from the original on March 23, 2014 ; Retrieved March 23, 2014 (Danish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.haslund.info
  2. ↑ Former FCB player Eigil Nielsen has died. Report on telebasel.ch, December 30, 2019. Accessed December 30, 2019.
  3. ↑ Article «The beautiful summer time of the FCW» by Hansjörg Schifferle. The messenger of July 10, 2011.
  4. ↑ Thuner Tagblatt , number 120, May 25, 1979, page 15
  5. ^ Neue Zürcher Nachrichten , number 88, April 16, 1980, page 11
personal data
SURNAME Nielsen, Eigil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Tårs , Denmark
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 2019
Place of death Hjørring