Finn Gundersen Explained

Finn Gundersen
Birth Date:16 April 1933
Birth Place:Oslo, Norway
Nationality:Norwegian
Sport:
  • Ice hockey
  • Football

Finn Harry Gundersen (16 April 1933 – 30 July 2014)[1] was a Norwegian ice hockey player and football player, born in Oslo, Norway.

Ice hockey career

He played for the Norway men's national ice hockey team, and participated at the Winter Olympics in 1952, where the Norwegian team placed 9th.[2] He was also Norwegian Champions in ice hockey in 1959 with Tigrene.

Football career

He played football for Skeid where he won the Norwegian Football Cup in 1954, 1955 and 1956. An attacking midfielder, he played professional football for Hellas Verona in Italy in 1957–58, and represented the Norway national football team ten times scoring two goals.[3]

International goals

Norway score listed first, score column indicates score after each Gundersen goal.

International goals by date, venue, cap, opponent, score, result and competition[4]
scope=colNo.scope=colDatescope=colVenuescope=colOpponentscope=colScorescope=colResultscope=colCompetition
scope=row style=text-align:center116 September 1956 align=center 1–0 3–11956–59 Nordic Football Championship
scope=row style=text-align:center23–0

Notes and References

  1. http://www.folkebladet.no/ntb-sport/article9974893.ece Finn Gundersen er død
  2. Web site: Finn Gundersen . Sports-reference.com . 6 April 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121105105046/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/gu/finn-gundersen-1.html . 5 November 2012 .
  3. Web site: Finn_Gundersen . Norwegian . . 21 May 2022.
  4. Web site: Norway vs Sweden international football match report. football.eu. 21 May 2022.