Michael Rohde (March 3, 1894 - February 5, 1979) was a Danish amateur
football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
player, who played 40 matches and scored 22 goals for the
Danish national team from 1915 to 1931, and competed at the
1920 Summer Olympics
The 1920 Summer Olympics (french: Jeux olympiques d'été de 1920; nl, Olympische Zomerspelen van 1920; german: Olympische Sommerspiele 1920), officially known as the Games of the VII Olympiad (french: Jeux de la VIIe olympiade; nl, Spelen van ...
.
In June 1931 he beat
Poul "Tist" Nielsen's record from 1925, as Rohde became the first Dane to play 39 international games. By his international retirement in September 1931, he had played 40 international games, a record broken by
Fritz Tarp in September 1932. Rohde played for Danish amateur club
B.93 throughout his entire senior career, winning three
Danish championships. From 1911 to 1933, Rohde scored 254 goals in 252 matches for B 93, and he most famously scored all four goals, when B.93 beat English professional team
Huddersfield FC 4-3.
Honours
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Danish championship : 1916, 1929, 1930
References
External links
Danish national team profile
1894 births
1979 deaths
Danish men's footballers
Denmark international footballers
Boldklubben af 1893 players
Olympic footballers of Denmark
Footballers at the 1920 Summer Olympics
Danish football managers
Boldklubben af 1893 managers
Association football forwards
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