Ebbe Schwartz (3 May 1901 – 19 October 1964) was a
Danish
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People
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* Culture of Denmark
* Danish people or Danes, people with a Danish a ...
football
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administrator.
Career
* From 1950 until 1964 he was president of the
Danish Football Association
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(the DBU).
* He served as
UEFA
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President (1954–1962).
* From 1962 until 1964 he was a member of the executive committee and vice-president of the world football federation
FIFA
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.
References
External links
Ebbe Schwartz - Kendtes gravsted''UEFA.com''
* ''W. Pyta, N. Havemann'' European Football and Collective Memory
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1901 births
1964 deaths
People from Frederiksberg
Presidents of UEFA
Association football executives
Danish people of German descent