Christian Vilhelm Balduin Grøthan (18 November 1890 – 6 April 1951) was a Danish

football (soccer) Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

player, who played 31 games and scored three goals for the

Denmark national football team The Denmark national football team ( or ''herrelandsholdet'') represents Denmark and Greenland in men's international Association football, football competitions. It is controlled by the Danish Football Association (DBU), the governing body for ...

from 1915 to 1923. He also represented Denmark at the

1920 Summer Olympics The 1920 Summer Olympics (; ; ), officially known as the Games of the VII Olympiad (; ; ) and commonly known as Antwerp 1920 (; Dutch language, Dutch and German language, German: ''Antwerpen 1920''), were an international multi-sport event held i ...

football tournament. Born in

Frederiksberg Frederiksberg () is a part of the Capital Region of Denmark. It is an independent municipality, Frederiksberg Municipality, separate from Copenhagen Municipality, but both are a part of the region of Copenhagen. It occupies an area of less tha ...

, Grøthan played as a defender for

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team B 93, with whom he won the 1916

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* * * 1890 births 1951 deaths Danish men's footballers Denmark men's international footballers Boldklubben af 1893 players Olympic footballers for Denmark Footballers at the 1920 Summer Olympics Footballers from Frederiksberg Men's association football defenders {{Denmark-footy-defender-stub