clubs nationalteam position nationalcaps nationalyears birth_date article_title name nationalgoals
akademisk boldklub denmark midfielder 8 1951-1952 22 november 1923 steen blicher -lrb- footballer -rrb-
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steen blicher -lrb- footballer -rrb-

steen blicher -lrb- born 22 november 1923 -rrb- is a danish former amateur footballer who played in the left half-back position .
blicher played 8 games for the denmark national football team , and was the captain of the danish team at the 1952 summer olympics .
blicher was a technically limited player , who more than compensated through an immense fighting spirit .
he played his club football in copenhagen with kfum 's boldklub and later akademisk boldklub -lrb- ab -rrb- .
in ab , his favorite half-back position was occupied by danish international ivan jensen , and blicher played some matches as a left winger .
when ivan jensen turned professional following the 1948 summer olympics , blicher replaced him as the ab left half-back .
blicher was a part of the ab team which won the danish championship in 1947 , as well as 1951 and 1952 .
blicher made his debut for the danish national team on may 12 , 1951 , in a 1-3 defeat to the scotland national football team .
in the last warm-up game before the 1952 summer olympics , the danish team captain , knud lundberg , was removed from the position , and steen blicher was assigned the position .
as lundberg was blicher 's captain at ab , it was an awkward appointment , but blicher led the team well through example .
denmark was eliminated by the yugoslavia national football team in the quarter-finals by 3-5 , which was blicher 's last international game .
