Ivan Nielsen

Ivan Nielsen is pure 1980s football romance to me. A Danish centre-back who anchored defences at Feyenoord and PSV, lifting the European Cup with the latter, he was a craftsman of the back line rather than a headline-grabber. Fifty-one caps and a place in that gloriously entertaining 1986 Denmark side put him at the heart of a golden European era. I have a soft spot for the calm organisers who let the flair players shine in front of them, and that's exactly his profile. He later turned to coaching, which fits a player whose game always looked like reading the match a beat ahead.

Name (English)

Ivan Nielsen

Name (Japanese)

イヴァン・ニールセン

Reading

いゔぁん・にーるせん

Born

October 9, 1956 (age 69)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Monkey

Origin

Frederiksberg, Denmark

Height

184 cm

Occupation

association football player / association football coach

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%82%BB%E3%83%B3

Tags

• association football player
• association football coach

Last updated

2026-06-02

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