- Source: Sigurd Wathne
Sigurd Wathne (12 February 1898 – 26 March 1942) was a Denmark-born Norwegian football goalkeeper, playing for the club SK Brann. He was born in Copenhagen. He was on the Norway national team at the Antwerp Olympics in 1920; they reached the quarter finals. He was capped 14 times for Norway.
A seaman in the Norwegian Merchant Navy during World War II he sailed as first engineer with SS Risøy, which was bombed by German aircraft when in convoy off Trevose Head, Cornwall, on 20 March 1942, and he died in a hospital in Swansea six days later. He was buried at Danygraig Cemetery, Swansea.
References
External links
Sigurd Wathne at National-Football-Teams.com
Sigurd Wathne at the Norway Football Association (in Norwegian)
Sigurd Wathne at EU-Football.info
Sigurd Wathne at Olympedia
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Sigurd Wathne
- Wathne
- SK Brann
- List of footballers killed during World War II
- Danygraig Cemetery
- Alf Lagesen
- Football at the 1920 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads
- 1917 Norwegian Football Cup
- List of Norway international footballers (10–24 caps)
- 1918 Norwegian Football Cup
