Sophus Peter Hansen (16 November 1889 – 19 February 1962) was a

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amateur

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player and referee. He won a silver medal with the Denmark national team at the 1912 Summer Olympics. He also participated with the Danish team at the 1920 Summer Olympics. Born in

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, he played his entire career as a

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for local club

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. He made his national team debut in 1911, and was the first player to reach 25

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for the Danish national team. He played a record-setting 31 Danish national team games, before ending his national team career in 1920. The record was broken by Poul "Tist" Nielsen in October 1923. He is well known for stopping 2 crosses in the 1912 Olympic final against

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. In his civil life Hansen was employed, at first as a stonemason, and later as an

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man. In the years 1922-1934 excelled as a football referee refereeing about 20 internationals. In the 1930

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Hansen refereed both the semifinals and both legs of the final between

Sparta Prague ) but refer to Spartans as "''Rudí''" ( en, The Dark Reds/The Maroons).'' Letenští'' , ground = Generali Česká pojišťovna Arena , capacity = 19,416 , clubname = Sparta Prague , image = Sparta Praha logo.png , image_size = 160px , fu ...

and

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. Hansen was also a respected football jurist. He died in February 1962, while living at

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in Copenhagen.

Bibliography

Autobiography *''Sophus Målmand'', 1949

References

External links

Danish national team profile
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