He played 14 games and scored eight goals for the Denmark national football team, and won a bronze medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

[7] Sørensen went on to become league top goalscorer with 16 goals,[2] as B 93 team won the top-flight 1945–46 Danish 1st Division championship.

[1] Alongside fellow bronze medalist Karl Aage Hansen, Sørensen joined Atalanta of Bergamo in the Serie A championship of Italian football.

[7] Sørensen spent four seasons at Atalanta, scoring 51 goals in 134 games, and played alongside fellow Danish international players Svend Jørgen Hansen and Poul Rasmussen at the club.

[12] Sørensen worked defensively to neutralize English player Sir Stanley Matthews,[7] and the European team won 4–1.

The ex-professionals took to playing a series of unofficial, but popular, exhibition matches, centered around Karl Aage Præst's vacation home in Liseleje.

[15] He was a member of the committee until it was disbanded in 1979, with its responsibilities transferred solely to the Danish national team manager.