Charles Buchwald
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Bjerringbro
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, Viborg
Viborg municipality
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– November 19, 1951, in Hørsholm
Hørsholm
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) was a Danish
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
amateur football (soccer)
Football (soccer)
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player, who played seven games as a defender
Defender (football)
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for the Denmark national football team
Denmark national football team
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. He was Jewish.
He won silver medal
Silver medal
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s at the 1908
1908 Summer Olympics
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and 1912 Summer Olympics
1912 Summer Olympics
The 1912 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the V Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Stockholm, Sweden, between 5 May and 27 July 1912. Twenty-eight nations and 2,407 competitors, including 48 women, competed in 102 events in 14 sports...
. He also won a gold medal
Gold medal
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with the unofficial Danish team at the 1906 Summer Olympics
1906 Summer Olympics
The 1906 Intercalated Games or 1906 Olympic Games were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in Athens, Greece. They were at the time considered to be Olympic Games and were referred to as the "Second International Olympic Games in Athens" by the International Olympic Committee...
. In his club career, Buchwald played for Danish teams ØB and AB
Akademisk Boldklub
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.
He represented Denmark at the 1906 Summer Olympics in Athens
Athens
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, participating in the unofficial football tournament
Football at the 1906 Summer Olympics
At the 1906 Summer Olympics, called "Intercalated Games", in Athens, an unofficial football event was contested. Only four teams competed, three of them clubs from Greece and the Ottoman Empire...
, which Denmark won. He took part in the first official Danish national team game, played at the 1908 Summer Olympics, as Denmark won 9-0 against France B
France national football team
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. He played all three Danish games at the tournament, and helped the team win silver medals. Four years later, Buchwald once again played all three games. In the final game, against Great Britain, Buchwald was injured in the 30th minute of the game, with Denmark trailing Great Britain 1-2. As the rules did not allow substitutions
Substitute (football)
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, Denmark finished the game with one man less, losing 2-4.
See also
- List of select Jewish football (association; soccer) players