Full name Evald Tipner Position Goalkeeper Role Football player | Name Evald Tipner | |
Date of birth (1906-03-13)13 March 1906 Place of birth Tallinn, Russian Empire Date of death 18 July 1947(1947-07-18) (aged 41) Place of death Tallinn, Estonian SSR,
Soviet Union Died July 18, 1947, Tallinn, Estonia | ||
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JK Viljandi Tulevik II - FC Jõgeva Wolves 4:3 (3:1)
Evald Tipner (13 March 1906 – 18 July 1947) was Estonian football, ice hockey and bandy player. He was capped 66 times for Estonian national football team, 7 times for bandy national team and once for ice hockey team. Tipner was also a good track and field athlete. Some sources report him as the first goalscorer in the history of World Cup preliminary competition, having scored what would be an own goal for Sweden against Estonia 7 minutes into the game, on 11 June 1933, in Stockholm. Some other sources consider this was not an own goal, and that it was actually scored by Swedish captain Knut Kroon.
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Football
Tipner was mainly a goalkeeper, but he also played in his club as a striker. He was a good penalty taker as well.
Bandy
Tipner played 7 games and scored 9 goals for national team during 1927–1934.
Ice hockey
In 1924 he played one game for national hockey team.