Jørgen Juve (22 November 1906 – 12 April 1983) was a Norwegian
football
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player, jurist, journalist and non-fiction writer. He played as a striker for
Lyn
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, and also for the
Norway national team. He is the highest-scoring player ever for Norway, with 33 goals in just 45 games. He was captain of the Norway team which won Olympic bronze medals in the
1936 Summer Olympics
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. He also had a career as a journalist for ''
Dagbladet
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'' and ''
Tidens Tegn
''Tidens Tegn'' (Norwegian: ''Sign of the Times'') is a former Norwegian newspaper, issued in Oslo from 1910 to 1941.
Editors
The founder and first editor-in-chief of ''Tidens Tegn'' was Ola Thommessen, who edited the newspaper until 1917. Tho ...
'', and wrote several books.
Personal life
Juve was born in
Porsgrunn
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; the son of
tanner Ole Martin Juve and Marie Pøhner.
The family name originates from the farm Juve/Djuve in
Lårdal
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, where his grandfather was born. He was the eldest of six children. His two brothers both emigrated to the United States, while his three sisters married and settled in Norway. Among his childhood friends was later composer
Klaus Egge
Klaus Egge (July 19, 1906 – March 7, 1979) was a Norwegian composer and music critic.
Background
Egge was born in Gransherad, Telemark, Norway. He was the son Rasmus Klausen Egge (1874-1962) and Rakel Abrahamsdatter Iversen (1877-1986). He gr ...
.
He was married twice, first to Erna Riberg in 1932,
[ and they had two children. One of their grandchildren is folk singer Tone Juve.][ He was later married to the psychologist ]Eva Røine
Eva Røine (born December 11, 1928) is a Norwegian psychologist and author.
Røine was born in Mysen, the daughter of the dentist Thorbjørn Sverre Røine (1896–1962) and Sigrid Bergliot Lund (1894–1962). In her younger years she worked as a ...
,[ and they had one daughter.][ He died in ]Oslo
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in 1983.[
]
Sports career
Juve started playing football for the Porsgrunn sports club Urædd, only 16 years old. In 1926 he moved to Oslo
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, where he started playing for the club Lyn. Juve played in the Norwegian Cup
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final for Lyn in 1928
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, but the team lost 2–1 against Ørn-Horten.[ During the season 1930–1931 he played 12 games for ]FC Basel
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in which he scored 10 goals.
He made 45 appearances and scored 33 international goals for the Norway national team between 1928 and 1937. His first match for the national team was against Finland
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in June 1928, and his 45th match was against Denmark
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in June 1937. Juve scored his first goals for Norway in June 1929, when he scored a hat-trick
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against Netherlands
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, and during the next seven matches he scored 16 goals. His 33 goals makes Juve the Norway national team all time top scorer.[ He only played as a ]striker
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in 22 of those games; the rest he alternated between right-back and centre-half.[
He was captain of the team that won bronze medals at the ]1936 Summer Olympics
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in Berlin.[ In the first round of the Olympics, 3 August, the Norwegian team met ]Turkey
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, and won the match 4–0. In the second round they met Germany
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, and won this match 2–0. Both goals were scored by Magnar Isaksen
Magnar Nikolai Isaksen (13 October 1910 – 8 June 1979) was a Norwegian football (soccer) player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. At club level, Isaksen represented Kristiansund FK and Lyn.
Career
Magnar Isaksen was born in Kri ...
(after 8 and 84 minutes).[ Among the spectators were ]Hitler
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and Goebbels
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. It was the first and last time Hitler watched a football match.[ In the semifinal, on 10 August, the Norwegian team lost 1–2 to ]Italy
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, after extra time. Finally the team won 3–2 over Poland
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in the bronze final. In 2006, on the occasion of the 100-year anniversary of Juve's birth Per Ravn Omdal
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stated that Juve was one of the greatest Norwegian footballers while Sondre Kåfjord
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, Per Jorsett
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, Ola Dybwad Olsen and Arne Scheie
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He started working in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation in 1972, and started commenting the Four Hil ...
named Juve as the most important contributor to Norway's only medal in an international football championship for men.
Juve retired from football in 1938, then coached Bodø/Glimt in 1939. He coached Molde FK
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for a few weeks in 1948.
Writing career
In 1931, Juve obtained a law degree in Basel
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, and would later work as a journalist and writer.[ He was sports editor for the newspaper '']Dagbladet
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'' from 1928 to 1934, and for ''Tidens Tegn
''Tidens Tegn'' (Norwegian: ''Sign of the Times'') is a former Norwegian newspaper, issued in Oslo from 1910 to 1941.
Editors
The founder and first editor-in-chief of ''Tidens Tegn'' was Ola Thommessen, who edited the newspaper until 1917. Tho ...
'' from 1934 to 1940. During World War II Juve started the weekly magazine ''Bragd''. In 1941 he moved to Stockholm
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, where he edited the magazine ''Norges-Nytt
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Among the editors of ''Norges-Nytt'' were ...
''. In 1942 he travelled to London, and later to New York.[
He worked as a journalist for ''Dagbladet'' from 1945.][ Among his books are ''Alt om fotball'' from 1934, ''Norsk fotball'' from 1937, and ''Øyeblikk'' from 1978.][ In ''Øyeblikk'' ("Moments") Juve describes memorable moments, such as when ]Birger Ruud
Birger Ruud (23 August 1911 – 13 June 1998) was a Norwegian ski jumper and alpine skier.
Career
Born in Kongsberg, Birger Ruud, with his brothers Sigmund and Asbjørn, dominated international jumping in the 1930s, winning three world champi ...
won the men's downhill and Laila Schou Nilsen
Laila Schou Nilsen (18 March 1919 – 30 July 1998) was one of the foremost Norwegian sportspeople of the 20th century, best known as a speed skater, alpine skier, and tennis player. She was one of the pioneers in women's speed skating, both in N ...
won the women's downhill at the 1936 Winter Olympics
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. From the football match against Germany in 1936 he reminisced on how some German players stopped playing and saluted when Hitler appeared.[ He edited a book on ]Ole Reistad
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in 1959.[ Juve was also a minor ballot candidate for the ]Liberal Party
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in the 1949 Norwegian parliamentary election
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...
.
Career statistics
:''Scores and results list Norway's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Juve goal.''
References
External links
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1906 births
1983 deaths
Sportspeople from Porsgrunn
Norwegian expatriates in Switzerland
Norwegian footballers
Norway international footballers
Lyn Fotball players
FC Basel players
Footballers at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Olympic footballers of Norway
Olympic medalists in football
Olympic bronze medalists for Norway
1938 FIFA World Cup players
Norwegian football managers
FK Bodø/Glimt managers
Molde FK managers
Norwegian expatriates in Sweden
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Dagbladet people
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Liberal Party (Norway) politicians
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