Jørgen Juve

Jørgen Juve (22 November 1906 – 12 April 1983) was a Norwegian football player, jurist, journalist, and non-fiction writer.

He also played for a season at Basel in Switzerland before retiring and earned a total of 45 caps for the Norway national team.

[2] Juve started playing football for the Porsgrunn sports club Urædd, only 16 years old.

Juve played in the Norwegian Cup final for Lyn in 1928, but the team lost 2–1 against Ørn-Horten.

[8][9] His 33 goals made Juve the Norway national team all time top scorer for over 90 years, until his record was finally beaten by Erling Haaland in 2024.

[5] In the first round of the Olympics, 3 August, the Norwegian team met Turkey, and won the match 4–0.

[12] In September 2024, Norway's anti-doping agency mistakenly included Juve and Einar Gundersen on a list of football players to be tested.

[5] In Øyeblikk ("Moments") Juve describes memorable moments, such as when Birger Ruud won the men's downhill and Laila Schou Nilsen won the women's downhill at the 1936 Winter Olympics.

From the football match against Germany in 1936 he reminisced on how some German players stopped playing and saluted when Hitler appeared.

[2] Juve was also a minor ballot candidate for the Liberal Party in the 1949 Norwegian parliamentary election.