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Place of Birth: Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
About Bent Hansen
- Bent Hansen (13 September 1933 in Copenhagen – 8 March 2001) was a Danish amateur football (soccer) player who won a silver medal with the Denmark national football team at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
- He played a total of 58 national team matches from 1958 to 1965, in which he scored a single goal.
- On the club level, Bent Hansen played his entire senior career with Copenhagen club B 1903.Hansen was a player of great stamina and positional sense with good technique, and his game was riskless without surprise or use of trickery, but also without mistakes.
- He made his debut for the senior Danish national team in a friendly match against the West Germany national football team on 24 September 1958.
- On 23 September 1959 Hansen scored his only international goal, as Denmark drew the Czechoslovakia national football team 2-2 in a qualification game for the 1960 European Nations' Cup.
- At the 1960 Olympics, he played in the position of right halfback on the Danish team, often linking up via short passes with right winger Poul Pedersen.
- Hansen played all five games as Denmark won silver medals, losing to the Yugoslavia national football team in the final.
- Many of his Danish teammates moved abroad to play professionally during the 1960s, and was thereby banned from the amateur-only national team.
- Hansen and fellow Danish international Henning Enoksen were offered a professional contract with Torino Calcio, but Enoksen declined and both offers were withdrawn.
- Hansen stayed an amateur, and played both games, as the Danish team finished fourth at the 1964 European Nations' Cup.
- On 29 November 1964 he broke Poul Pedersen's record as he became the first Dane to play 51 games for the national team.
- Bent Hansen ended his international career in October 1965, having played 58 international games; a record that was eventually broken by Henning Munk Jensen in May 1978.
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