Steen Blicher (footballer)
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Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 22 November 1923 | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
KFUM's Boldklub | |||
Akademisk Boldklub | |||
International career | |||
1951-1952 | Denmark | 8 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Steen Blicher (born 22 November 1923) is a Danish former amateur footballer who played in the left half-back position. Blicher played 8 games for the Denmark national football team,[1] and was the captain of the Danish team at the 1952 Summer Olympics.[2]
Blicher was a technically limited player, who more than compensated through an immense fighting spirit.[3] He played his club football in Copenhagen with KFUM's Boldklub and later Akademisk Boldklub (AB). In AB, his favorite half-back position was occupied by Danish international Ivan Jensen, and Blicher played some matches as a left winger. When Ivan Jensen turned professional following the 1948 Summer Olympics, Blicher replaced him as the AB left half-back.[3] Blicher was a part of the AB team which won the Danish Championship in 1947,[4] as well as 1951 and 1952.[5]
Blicher made his debut for the Danish national team on May 12, 1951, in a 1-3 defeat to the Scotland national football team.[1] In the last warm-up game before the 1952 Summer Olympics, the Danish team captain, Knud Lundberg, was removed from the position, and Steen Blicher was assigned the position.[6] As Lundberg was Blicher's captain at AB, it was an awkward appointment, but Blicher led the team well through example.[3] Denmark was eliminated by the Yugoslavia national football team in the quarter-finals by 3-5, which was Blicher's last international game.
References
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