Holger Seebach
Seebach w. Danish national team (1953)
Personal information
Date of birth (1922-03-17)17 March 1922
Place of birth Aarhus, Denmark
Date of death 30 August 2011(2011-08-30) (aged 89)
Place of death Odense, Denmark
Position(s) Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1939–1941 B 1913
1942–1944 OB
1945–1956 AB
International career
1947–1953 Denmark 17 (9)
Medal record
Men's Football
Representing  Denmark
Bronze medal – third place 1948 London Team
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Holger Seebach (17 March 1922 – 30 August 2011) was a Danish amateur footballer,[1] who scored 9 goals in 17 games for the Denmark national football team,[2] won a bronze medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics and competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics.[3] Holger Seebach was one of five players from the same Odense Boldklub team, including Jørgen Leschly Sørensen and Svend Jørgen Hansen, who moved to Copenhagen and was selected for the Danish national team, during this period he played for AB and won four Danish championships.[4] Seebach was an wing attacker who tried to score from all angles, and he was known as "always-good-for-a-goal"-Seebach among both teammates and opposition players.[4] Knud Lundberg mentioned him in his book Fodboldens ABC that he had asked Holger Seebach about his goal scoring tactics, and Holger Seebach replied that he used to aim for the goalkeeper but miss him. Knud Lundberg replied that he had tried that tactic without success. He declined an offer from an Italian club to become the second Danish professional football player, and instead focused on his studies in engineering at the Technical University of Denmark.

Personal life

Seebach is related to musicians Tommy Seebach and his sons Nicolai and Rasmus Seebach. Rasmus Seebach's son, Holger, is named after the football player.[5] He studied as a carpenter and later got a Cand. Polit. Engineering degree from Odense Technical University where he continued to work until his retirement in 1999 at the age of 77. He was married twice and is the father of 2 children, Dorte Seebach and Torben Seebach

Honours

AB

Denmark

References

  1. ^ "Holger Seebach". Olympedia. Retrieved 13 October 2021.
  2. ^ "Landsholdsdatabasen".
  3. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Holger Seebach". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 6 January 2009. Retrieved 30 May 2012.
  4. ^ a b Lundberg, Knud (1986). Dansk Fodbold. Vol. 1. Fra Breslau til Bronceholdet. Copenhagen: Rhodos. pp. 160–161. ISBN 87-7245-132-7.
  5. ^ Nygaard, Kristian Dam (24 November 2017). "Rasmus Seebach afslører: Min søn er opkaldt efter dansk OL-helt". B.T. (in Danish). Retrieved 18 June 2022.
  6. ^ "Herrernes OL-hold fra 1948". DBU (in Danish). Archived from the original on 18 June 2022. Retrieved 18 June 2022.


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