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Key facts
- 2013
- Fredericia (caretaker)
- Full name
- Allan Rodenkam Simonsen
- Date of birth
- ( 1952-12-15 ) 15 December 1952 (age 73)
- Place of birth
- Vejle , Denmark
- Height
- 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
- Positions
- Striker right winger
- Years
- Team
- 1971 1972
- Vejle
- 1972 1979
- Borussia Mönchengladbach
- 1979 1982
- Barcelona
- 1982 1983
- Charlton Athletic
- 1983 1989
- Vejle
- 1972 1986
- Denmark
- 1991 1994
- Vejle
- 1994 2001
- Faroe Islands
- 2001 2004
- Luxembourg
- 2011 2013
- Fredericia (General manager)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Allan
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Danish Realm
- Place of birth
- Vejle
- Occupation
- association football coach
- Languages spoken
- Danish
- Award
- Ballon d'Or
- Participant in
- football at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Charlton Athletic F.C.
- Position played
- forward
- League
- Bundesliga
- Country for sport
- Denmark
- Mass
- 55
- Image
- Allan Simonsen (1976).jpg
- Height
- 166
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- Commons category
- Allan Simonsen
- date of birth
- 1952-12-15
- pseudonym
- Simonet
- start of work period
- 1971-00-00
- number of matches played/races/starts
- 1
- total goals in career
- 0
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Encyclopedic overview
Allan Rodenkam Simonsen (born 15 December 1952) is a Danish former footballer and manager. He most prominently played as a striker for German Bundesliga club Borussia Mönchengladbach, winning the 1975 and 1979 UEFA Cups, as well as for Barcelona in Spain, winning the 1982 Cup Winners' Cup. Simonsen is the only footballer to have scored in the European Cup, UEFA Cup, and Cup Winners' Cup finals. Simonsen was named 1977 European Footballer of the Year.
For the Denmark national team, Simonsen was capped 55 times, scoring 20 goals. He represented Denmark at the 1972 Summer Olympics, 1984 European Championship and 1986 World Cup tournaments. He was voted into the Danish Football Hall of Fame in November 2008.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Allan Simonsen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.