Goalkeeper, often shortened to keeper or goalie, is one of the major positions of association football.
 It is the most specialised position in the sport.
 The goalkeeper's primary role is to prevent the opposing team from successfully moving the ball over the defended goal-line (between the posts and under the crossbar).
 This is accomplished by the goalkeeper moving into the path of the ball and either catching it or directing it away from the vicinity of the goal line.
 Within the penalty area goalkeepers are able to use their hands, making them (outside of throw-ins) the only players on the field permitted to handle the ball.
 The only time when a goalkeeper is not allowed to use their hands inside their box is when a field player of their own team does a direct pass.
 The most common way to know that it is a direct pass, and not an indirect pass, is when the field player has control of the ball.
 Goalkeepers are allowed to pick up the ball during an indirect hit from a teammate (headers, chest, knee thigh, and when the ball bounces off the player).
 Goalkeepers usually perform goal kicks, and also give commands to their defense during corner kicks, direct and indirect free kicks, and marking.
 Goalkeepers play an important role in directing on field strategy as they have an unrestricted view of the entire pitch, giving them a unique perspective on play development.
 If an attacker on the opposing team obstructs the keeper from catching or saving the ball, for example, in a corner, it will normally be a free kick.
Morten Nicolas Rasmussen (born 31 January 1985) is a Danish footballer, better known as Morten Duncan Rasmussen, who plays as a striker for Danish side AGF.
 He has played 13 times and scored 4 goals for the Denmark national team.
 Rasmussen scored 37 goals in 60 matches for various Denmark national youth sides and was named the Danish under-19 Player of the Year in 2003.
 He is the highest scoring player in the history of the Danish Superliga, scoring 141 goals for Aalborg BK, AGF, Brøndby and FC Midtjylland.
An own goal is when a player scores in their own team's net or scoring area, not the opposing team's, during sports games in which points scored are referred to as "goals" (e.g., association football).
 An own goal is usually accidental, but is counted as a regular goal.
 It may result from an attempt at a defensive play that either failed or was unexpectedly intercepted by an opposing player.
 It is considered to be one of the more embarrassing blunders in all of sports.
In many team sports which involve scoring goals, the goalkeeper (termed goaltender, netminder, goalie or keeper in some sports) is a designated player charged with directly preventing the opposing team from scoring by intercepting shots at goal.
 Such positions exist in hurling, association football, Gaelic football, international rules football, handball, field hockey, ice hockey, water polo, bandy, rink bandy, lacrosse, floorball and other sports.
John Angelo Valdemar Østergaard Hansen, known simply as John Hansen, (24 June 1924 – 12 January 1990) was a Danish footballer who played as a forward.
 He played professionally for seven years in Italy: he scored 124 goals in 187 matches for Juventus F.C., and won two Serie A championships with the club, finishing as "Capocannoniere" top-goal scorer in the 1949–50 Serie A season; he later also played for Italian club S.S. Lazio.
 He won the 1944 Danish championship with childhood club BK Frem.
 Hansen scored 10 goals in eight games for the Denmark national football team in 1948, and won a bronze medal with Denmark at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
 In 1985, Hansen received the Italian order of chivalry.
Forwards are the players on an association football team who play nearest to the opposing team's goal, and are therefore most responsible for scoring goals.
In the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to prevent the opposing team from scoring goals.
Polo (Persian: چوگان "chogān") is a team sport played on horseback.
 The objective is to score goals against an opposing team.
 Players score by driving a small white plastic or wooden ball into the opposing team's goal using a long-handled mallet.
 The traditional sport of polo is played on a grass field up to 300 by .
 Each polo team consists of four riders and their mounts.
A field goal (FG) is a means of scoring in American football and Canadian football.
 To score a field goal the team in possession of the ball must place kick, or drop kick, the ball through the goal, i.e., between the uprights and over the crossbar.
 American football requires that a field goal must only come during a play from scrimmage, while Canadian football retains open field kicks and thus field goals may be scored at any time from anywhere on the field and by any player.
 The vast majority of field goals, in both codes, are placed kicked.
 Drop kicked field goals were common in the early days of Gridiron football but are almost never done in modern times.
 In most leagues, a successful field goal awards three points (a notable exception is in six-man football where, due to the difficulty of making a successful field goal because of the small number of players available to stop the opposing team from attempting a block, a field goal is worth four points).
In ice hockey an awarded goal is an unusual situation in which a goal is awarded to a team rather than scored.
 A penalty shot is a type of penalty awarded when a team loses a clear scoring opportunity on a breakaway because of a foul committed by an opposing player.
 A player from the non-offending team is given an attempt to score a goal without opposition from any defending players except the goaltender.
 However, when such a lost opportunity occurs "and" the opposing team has pulled their goalie to allow for an extra attacker, a goal is simply awarded without a penalty shot taking place.

Question: John Hansen was a Danish footballer who played which position nearest to the opposing team's goal, and are therefore most responsible for scoring goals?
Answer: forward