Arne Andersen (footballer)

{{short description|Olympic footballer (1900-1986)}}

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| birth_place = Halden, Norway

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| occupation = Police officer
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Arne Johan Andersen (21 April 1900 – 26 October 1986) was a Norwegian football player for the club FK Kvik, and police officer. He was born in Halden.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/26797 |title=Arne Andersen |work=Olympedia |access-date=15 August 2021}} He played with the Norwegian national team at the Antwerp Olympics in 1920, where the Norwegian team reached the quarter-finals.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/an/arne-andersen-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418035119/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/an/arne-andersen-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Arne Andersen |publisher=Sports-reference.com |accessdate=9 February 2012 }} He was capped six times for Norway, scoring four goals.{{cite web|last=Søfting |first=Thomas |title=All-time national team players |url=http://www.home.no/greenriver/landslaget.html |publisher=Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation |accessdate=16 February 2012 |date=21 January 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726003621/http://www.home.no/greenriver/landslaget.html |archivedate=26 July 2011 }} During occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, he was arrested on 15 September 1944, and incarcerated at the Grini concentration camp from October 1944.{{cite encyclopedia |title=15201. Andersen, Arne Johan |encyclopedia=Norsk fangeleksikon. Grinifangene |editor=Børre R. Giertsen | page=534 |year=1946 |language=Norwegian|publisher=Cappelen |location=Oslo}} He died in Halden in 1986.