Sigurd Wathne

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Sigurd Wathne
Personnel
birthday February 12, 1898
place of birth Copenhagen ,  Denmark
date of death March 26, 1942
Place of death Swansea ,  Wales
position goalkeeper
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1914-1922 Brann Bergen
0000-around 1930 FK Mandalskameratene
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1918-1922 Norway 14 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Sigurd Wathne (born February 12, 1898 in Copenhagen , Denmark , † March 26, 1942 in Swansea , Wales ) was a Norwegian football player .

Career

society

Wathne played for Brann Bergen between 1914 and 1922 . With Brann he was twice in the final of the Norwegian Football Cup , in which the Bergen team were defeated in 1917 against Sarpsborg FK (1: 4) and in 1918 against Kvik FK (0: 4). Around 1930 he ended his playing career with FK Mandalskameratene .

National team

Between 1918 and 1922 he played 14 internationals for the Norwegian national team .

On June 16, 1918, he was in goal in Norway's first win in an official international match 3-1 against Denmark, as well as in the 1920 Olympic football tournament in Antwerp , where he played in all three games against Great Britain (3-1), Czechoslovakia (0 : 4) and Italy (1: 2 a.d. ) was used.

death

During the Second World War , Sigurd Wathne served as the first engineer on DS Risøy . On March 20, 1942, the ship was in a convoy en route from Southampton to Swansea when it was bombed by an airplane in the Bristol Channel . Wathne was seriously injured overboard during the attack. He was recovered from an English ship and taken to Swansea, where he died of injuries six days later in a hospital.

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personal data
SURNAME Wathne, Sigurd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen , Denmark
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1942
Place of death Swansea , Wales