Daniel Eie (24 April 1889 – 28 May 1961) was a
Norwegian
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sports official.
He was a member of the boys' clubs Spring and Løp as a child, but joined
SFK Lyn
Ski- og Fotballklubben Lyn (lit. "Ski and Football Club Lightning") is a Norwegian alliance sports club from Nordre Aker, Oslo. It has two sections; for association football and Nordic skiing. Until 2010 they had a third section, for top-level a ...
in 1906.
He served as vice president of the
Football Association of Norway
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at the age of 21, in 1911. He was then the president from 1916 to 1918, and later returned to the post in 1927 and 1928.
[Amundsen, 1936: pp. 212–213] By then he was also Norway's representative in
FIFA
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. He also
refereed the
1914 Norwegian Football Cup final.
[ From 1915 to 1918 he was a board member of Norges Riksforbund for Idræt, then vice president until 1919. He was later president of Norges Landsforbund for Idræt from 1932 to 1936.][ He died in May 1961 and was buried in ]Vestre gravlund
Vestre Gravlund is a cemetery in the Frogner borough of Oslo, Norway. It is located next to the Borgen metro station. At , it is the largest cemetery in Norway. It was inaugurated in September 1902 and also contains a crematorium (''Vestre kre ...
.
References
1889 births
1961 deaths
Sportspeople from Oslo
Norwegian sports executives and administrators
Norwegian football referees
Burials at Vestre gravlund
20th-century Norwegian people
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