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{{Short description|Norwegian footballer (1898-19551898–1955)}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1898|12|3|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Sarpsborg (town)|Sarpsborg]], Norway
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1955|1|16|1898|12|3|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Narvik (town)|Narvik]], Norway
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==Personal life==
Halvorsen was born in [[Sarpsborg (town)|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.<ref name=nbl>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Asbjørn Halvorsen |encyclopedia=[[Norsk biografisk leksikon]]|first=Per |last=Jorsett |author-link=Per Jorsett |editor=Helle, Knut |editor-link=Knut Helle |publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget |location=Oslo |url=http://nbl.snl.no/Asbjørn_Halvorsen/utdypning |language=no |access-date=4 January 2014}}</ref>
 
==Playing career==
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==Post war ==
After the war, Halvorsen continued working for the NFF, with the title of Secretary General, until his death in 1955.<ref name=nbl/> He was a board member of [[Norsk Tipping]] from 1946.,<ref name=heh1948>{{cite encyclopedia|year=1948|edition=5|title=Halvorsen, Asbjørn |encyclopedia=[[Hvem er hvem?]]|editor=Steenstrup, Bjørn|publisher=Aschehoug|location=Oslo|url=https://runeberg.org/hvemerhvem/1948/0195.html|page=195|language=no|access-date=11 January 2014}}</ref> He and was decorated Knight of the Swedish [[Order of Vasa]]. He died in [[Narvik (town)|Narvik]] in 1955,<ref name=nbl/> as his health was permanently weakened by the [[typhus]] which he caught at concentration camps.<ref>{{cite web |last=Ulrich |first=Ron |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/64814253 |title=Asbjorn Halvorsen and Otto Harder - the story of two team-mates and a war |publisher=BBC Sport |date=3 March 2023 }}</ref>
 
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[[Category:1938 FIFA World Cup managers]]
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[[Category:Norwegian expatriate sportspeople in West Germany]]
[[Category:Grini concentration camp survivors]]
[[Category:Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp survivors]]
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