Asbjørn Halvorsen
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 3 December 1898 | ||
| Place of birth | Sarpsborg, Norway | ||
| Date of death | 16 January 1955 (aged 56) | ||
| Place of death | Narvik, Norway | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1917–1921 | Sarpsborg FK | ||
| 1922–1934 | Hamburger SV | ||
| National team | |||
| 1918–1923 | Norway | 19 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1933 | Hamburger SV | ||
| 1936–1940 | Norway | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Asbjørn Halvorsen (3 December 1898 – 16 January 1955), nicknamed Assi, was a Norwegian footballer, who played as a centre-half for Sarpsborg FK and Hamburger SV. He was capped 19 times playing for Norway, and was a part of the Norwegian team who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics. He was later Secretary general of the Norwegian Football Association, and acted as head coach of the Norwegian national team. He is regarded as the architect behind the Norwegian "Bronze Team" that finished third in the 1936 Olympics.
Halvorsen was born in Sarpsborg, the son of baker Christian Halvorsen and Jakobine Dorthea Thronsen. He established himself as a ship broker in Hamburg, and his first marriage was with a German citizen. He married for a second time in 1951 with Sigrid Helga Willadsen.
Halvorsen was a centre-half who played 19 times for the Norwegian national team, and won the Norwegian Cup in 1917 as captain of Sarpsborg FK. Aged 18 years and 318 days, he is the youngest captain in a Norwegian Cup final. He made his debut for the national team in 1918, in a match against Sweden, and played four matches for the national team in 1918, and four matches in 1919. He represented Norway at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, where the Norwegian team reached the quarter finals. Between 1922 and 1934, Halvorsen played in Germany for Hamburger SV, where he won the German championships in 1923 and 1928. He played his last match for the national team against Germany in Hamburg in 1923, his nineteenth game for the national selection.
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