Svend Aage Castella (15 March 1890 in

Copenhagen Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...

– 28 November 1938 in

) 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 for 13 games and scored one goal for the

Denmark national football team The Denmark men's national football team ( da, Danmarks herre-fodboldlandshold or ''herrelandsholdet'') represents Denmark in men's international football competitions. It is controlled by the Danish Football Association (DBU), the governing bo ...

. Castella played his entire career with Copenhagen club KB, with whom he won several

Danish football champions The Danish football champions are the winners of the highest league of football in Denmark. The title has been contested since 1913, in a varying form of competitions. Since 1991, the winners have been found through the Danish Superliga champions ...

hips. He made his Danish national team debut in October 1911, and was a part of the Danish team at the

1912 Summer Olympics The 1912 Summer Olympics ( sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1912), officially known as the Games of the V Olympiad ( sv, Den V olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Stockholm 1912, were an international multi-sport event held in Stockholm, Sweden, be ...

. He was an unused reserve player for the duration of the games, and was not awarded with a medal, as Denmark won

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s in the 1912 football tournament.

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Danish national team profile
1890 births 1938 deaths Danish men's footballers Kjøbenhavns Boldklub players Denmark international footballers Olympic footballers of Denmark Footballers at the 1912 Summer Olympics Association football defenders Footballers from Copenhagen {{Denmark-footy-defender-stub