Harald Nielsen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Harald Nielsen

Danish footballer

Date of Birth: 26-Oct-1941

Place of Birth: Frederikshavn, North Denmark Region, Denmark

Date of Death: 11-Aug-2015

Profession: businessperson, association football player, non-fiction writer

Nationality: Denmark

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Harald Ingemann Nielsen (26 October 1941 – 11 August 2015) was a Danish association footballer who played as a striker.
He played professionally for Italian club Bologna F.C.
where he was the league top scorer (capocannoniere) in Bologna's 1964 Serie A championship winning season.
Harald Nielsen played 14 games for the Denmark national football team in 1959 and 1960, scoring 15 goals, and he was known as Guld-Harald (Gold-Harald).
He was a football entrepreneur having continuously worked for the professionalization of both the Danish national team and the national league.