Lone Smidt Nielsen

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Lone Smidt Nielsen
Personnel
birthday January 1, 1961
place of birth Vejle ,  Denmark
position Midfield / attack
Juniors
Years station
Hover IF
Women
Years station Games (goals) 1
0000-1978 Kolding BK
1978-1985 B 1909
1985-1987 ACF Alaska Trani / ACF Sanitas Trani
1987 B 1909
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1977-1988 Denmark 57 (22)
1 Only league games are given.

Lone Smidt Nielsen (* 1. January 1961 in Vejle as Lone Hansen ) is a former Danish football player . The player played for the Danish national team from 1977 to 1988 and was a record goal scorer and record national player from 1982 to 1994. She was the first player to play 50 games in a row and was considered the best player in the world in the 1970s and 1980s. She ended her career at the age of 27.

Career

society

Lone was discovered at the age of 13 as the most talented player at Hover IF, a club in a suburb of her birthplace Vejle . At the age of 15 she moved to the neighborhood of Kolding BK and then to Odenser Verein B 1909 , the then dominant club in Danish women's football. After a trip to Italy to ACF Alaska Trani , where she played with Carolina Morace and twice won the Italian championship , she ended her career in Odense.

National team

On July 9, 1977, she made her first international match at the Nordic football championship against Sweden at the age of 16. She was then immediately a regular player and was used in the next 50 games, including 16 more games in the annual Nordic championships, until these were discontinued after the last victory of the Danes in 1982. Three months after her first game, she scored the 1-0 winner in her third game against the Netherlands with her first international goal . In 1979 she took part with the Danes at the unofficial European Championship in Italy , where the Danes won the title by beating hosts Italy 2-0 in the final , to which she contributed the first goal. At the last Nordic championship, she replaced Susanne Niemann as the record scorer on July 16, 1982 with her 12th international goal. She increased the record to 22 goals by the end of her career and remained the record scorer until June 15, 1994. Then she was replaced by Helle Jensen . Qualification for the first official European women's football championship in 1984 began three months after the last Nordic championship . The Danes reached the semi-finals played in April 1984. They faced England in the first and second leg and lost both games. In August 1985 they were able to return the favor to the English women in the group game at the Mundialito, but ultimately the English women won the tournament and the Danes finished third, scoring the 1-0 winner in the game for third place against the USA .

After her 51st game on May 3, 1986, due to pregnancy, an international break of two years until May 1988, in which she did not play in seven games, followed for her. In 1988 she went on to do six missions. Their last game was the quarter-final second leg on October 26, 1988 against Sweden in qualifying for the EM 1989 , which ended 1-1. But since the Danes lost the first leg at home in Odense 5-1, where they had scored their last international goal, the Danes were eliminated. With 57 internationals, she remained a record national player until March 13, 1994 and was then replaced by Lotte Bagge , who increased the record to 63 games.

trainer

After her active time, she worked as a coach, especially in the junior division, until 1996 for the Danish U-18 team.

Private

Her daughter Karoline Smidt Nielsen , born in 1994, is also a soccer player and played 17 international matches for Denmark between 2012 and 2014.

successes

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ dbu.dk: "Århundredets kvindelige fodboldspiller kåret"
  2. ↑ a b uefa.com: "Progress delights great Dane"
  3. ↑ Mundialito (Women) 1982-1988
  4. ↑ kvindestemmerodense.dk: Lone Smidt Nielsen
  5. ↑ Player profile of Lotte Bagge
  6. ↑ Player profile of Karoline Smidt Nielsen
personal data
SURNAME Smidt Nielsen, Lone
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Vejle , Denmark