Erik Birger Dyreborg (né Poulsen) (20 January 1940 – 12 November 2013), was a
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footballer
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who played as a
striker
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. He scored eight goals in his six matches for the Danish national team, before he became professional with
Boston Beacons
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. He is most noted for his five goals in the international match against
Norway
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.
Career
He started his career named Poulsen as an amateur in the Danish club
BK Frem
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, and won silver in the
1958 Danish 1st Division
Statistics of Danish 1st Division in the 1958 season.
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It was contested by 12 teams, and Vejle Boldklub won the championship.
League standings
Results
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Herning
Herning () is a Danish town in the Central Denmark Region of the Jutland peninsula. It is the main town and the administrative seat of Herning Municipality. Herning has a population of 50,565 (1 January 2022)the plane Dyreborg was supposed to travel with crashed, but Dyreborg had been put on a different plane to make room for a kit basket. In 1961, he transferred to
Næstved IF
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.
Dyreborg made his debut for the Danish national team in the 14–2 smashing against
Iceland
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, where he scored two goals and assisted eight. He was however criticized by the Danish media for not being able to score more goals. In his sixth match for the national team, against
Norway
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on 24 September 1967, he had decided to shoot every time he had the ball, and not pass the ball to teammates with a better chance of scoring. The match ended 5–0, with Dyreborg scoring all the five goals.
After scoring eight goals in six matches for the Danish national team, he turned professional with
Boston Beacons
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in 1968, in the newly formed
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, which, put an end to his national team career as professionals was not allowed to play for the national team. Dyreborg was one of many Danish footballers who turned professional in the United States in 1968, and Henning Boel,
John Steen Olsen
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After his career, he worked as a scout for Ajax in Scandinavi ...
,
Jørgen Henriksen
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, and John Petersen were all playing on Boston Beacons. The league soon became bankrupt and after one season with the Beacons, Dyreborg moved on to Dutch club
Holland Sport
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, before ending his career with
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club
Avesta AIK
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.
Dyreborg returned to Denmark after his professional career ended, and played veteran football for his youth club BK Frem. He died in Hornbaek at the age of 73 in 2013, following a brief undisclosed illness.