Biography | Bjørn Gulden — Born in Zurich While Grasshopper Still Played at Hardturm
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Biography | Bjørn Gulden — Born in Zurich While Grasshopper Still Played at Hardturm
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People look for the Adidas chief in Herzogenaurach or in a Norwegian valley.
The birth certificate is Swiss.
Bjørn Gulden was born on 4 June 1965 in Zurich.
His father, Arild Gulden, was a Norwegian international in both football and handball who had moved from Oslo to play for Grasshopper Club Zürich.
Grasshopper's home ground then was the Hardturm, opened in 1929 in Zürich-West, in what is now Kreis 5.
The stadium hosted World Cup matches in 1954 and remained the club's ground through the 1960s, when Arild was on the books.
The Hardturm closed on 1 September 2007.
Demolition ran from December 2008 into March 2009.
The pin is the verified site of that ground, not a living stadium.
A new football stadium on the same land has been planned for years and was still stalled in the mid-2020s.
The family did not stay.
Gulden grew up in Hallingdal, in the Norwegian mountain towns of Geilo and Gol, and first played for those local clubs.
The Zurich year explains a detail the later press releases keep repeating: a Norwegian national born in Switzerland because a footballer father had taken a contract at this ground.
Photo: Ara gantoise, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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