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{{Short description|Norwegian footballer (1911-2004)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Kristian Henriksen
| image = 
| fullname = 
| birth_date  = {{birth date|1911|3|3|df=y}}
| death_date  = {{death date and age|2004|2|8|1911|3|3|df=y}}
| height = <!--{{height|m=}}-->
| position = [[Wing half]]
| currentclub = 
| youthyears1= 
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| years1=1931–36 | years2 =1936–37 | years3 = 1938–46 
| clubs1 = [[Sarpsborg FK|Sarpsborg]] | clubs3 = [[FC Lyn Oslo|Lyn]] | clubs2 =[[Frigg Oslo FK|Frigg]]
| caps1= | goals1 = | caps2 = | goals2 = | caps3 = | goals3 = 
| nationalyears1= 1934–1946
| nationalteam1= [[Norway national football team|Norway]]
| nationalcaps1= 28 | nationalgoals1 = ?
| manageryears1 = 1942 | manageryears2 = 1947–48 | manageryears3 = 1957–58 | manageryears4 =1959
| managerclubs1 = [[IK Brage|Brage]] | managerclubs2 = [[Vålerenga IF Fotball|Vålerenga]] | managerclubs3 = [[Vålerenga IF Fotball|Vålerenga]] | managerclubs4 =[[Norway national football team|Norway]]
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'''Kristian "Svarten" Henriksen''' (3 March 1911 – 8 February 2004) was a [[Norway|Norwegian]] [[association football|footballer]] and coach. As a player, Henriksen was a [[wing half]] who played for [[Sarpsborg FK|Sarpsborg]], [[FC Lyn Oslo|Lyn]] and [[Frigg Oslo FK|Frigg]]. With Lyn, he won the [[1945 Norwegian Football Cup|1945]] and the [[1946 Norwegian Football Cup]]. He also played 28 times for the [[Norway national football team|Norwegian national team]].<ref name=snl>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Kristian Henriksen |first=Jan |last=Holm |encyclopedia=[[Store norske leksikon]] |editor-last=Bolstad | editor-first=Erik |publisher=Norsk nettleksikon |location=Oslo |url=https://snl.no/Kristian_Henriksen |language=no |access-date=21 February 2018}}</ref>

At national team level, Henriksen was a member of the [[1936 Summer Olympics|1936 Olympic]] squad that went on to win the bronze medals. However, Henriksen was a reserve, and did not play in the tournament.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/700516 |title=Kristian Henriksen |work=Olympedia |access-date=22 September 2021}}</ref> Two years later, in the [[1938 FIFA World Cup|1938 World Cup]], he did play and was a member of the team that narrowly lost to eventual world champions [[Italy national football team|Italy]] after extra time.

Henriksen was known as the team joker. When Norway lost 10–0 against [[Sweden men's national football team|Sweden]] in 1945, he is reported to have said, ''"Let's go for a draw, lads"'' after Sweden had scored their ninth goal.<ref>{{in lang|no}} [http://www.ffksupporter.net/spillere/rolf_johannessen/biografi/ Rolf "Bayern" Johannessen] ''ffksupporter.net''</ref>

Henriksen managed [[Vålerenga IF Fotball|Vålerenga]] for two periods; once from 1947 to 1948, and the second time from 1957 to 1958.<ref>{{in lang|no}} [http://www.vif-fotball.no/article748193.ece Trenere for Vålerenga Fotball] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080413031013/http://www.vif-fotball.no/article748193.ece |date=13 April 2008 }} ''vif-fotball.no''</ref>

Henriksen had a short and largely unsuccessful spell as national team coach in 1958 and 1959. Before his death in 2004, he was the last surviving member of the "Bronze Team" and the 1938 World Cup squad.

==References==
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{{Norway football squad 1936 Summer Olympics}}
{{Norway Squad 1938 World Cup}}
{{Vålerenga Fotball managers}}
{{Norway national football team managers}}

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