Harald Nielsen

Harald Nielsen

Nielsen in the early 1960s
Personal information
Full name	Harald Ingemann Nielsen
Date of birth	(1941-10-26)26 October 1941
Place of birth	Frederikshavn, Denmark
Date of death	11 August 2015(2015-08-11) (aged 73)
Place of death	Klampenborg, Denmark
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1959–1961	Frederikshavn fI	50	(44)
1961–1967	Bologna	157	(104)
1967–1968	Internazionale	8	(2)
1968–1969	Napoli	10	(2)
1969–1970	Sampdoria	4	(0)
Total		229	(129)
International career
1959–1960	Denmark	14	(15)
Medal record Representing  Denmark Men's Football 1960 Rome Team competition
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Harald Ingemann Nielsen (26 October 1941 – 11 August 2015) was a Danish footballer who played as a forward. 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 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 Demark national team and the national league.^[1]