Greenock Morton

Erik Sorenson

Full Name: Erik Lykke Sorenson
Age: 70 (22.01.1940)
Position: Goalkeeper

Born: Odense, Denmark
Nationality: Danish

International Honours: 15 Denmark Caps
Other Nationalities: English
Height: ?' ?"

Transfer Fee: Free - B 1919
Date Signed: ??.03.1964

Date Left: ??.08.1967
Transfer Out: £30,000 - Rangers

Re-Signed: ??.08.1971

Transfer Fee: Unknown - Rangers

Date Left: ??.??.1974

Transfer Out: Retired (continued as a coach)
Former Clubs (playing): B 1909 (Denmark), B 1919 (Denmark) Morton, Rangers, Morton

Non Playing Career: Morton (1972-1974: player/ goalkeeping coach; 1974: goalkeeping coach; 1974-1975: manager), Largs Thistle (manager), Dalry Thistle (manager), St. Mirren (assistant manager), Morton (1983: assisant manager), Largs Thistle (manager), B 1909 (coach)

Honours with Morton (player): Old 2nd Division winner - 1963/64

Personal Honours:
Miscellaneous: Erik was the first Dane Hal Stewart signed for Morton. This started a period known as the Danish Invasion in which Morton raided Scandinavia for talented amateur players.

He could have represented England at international level as his mother was English.

Sorenson won 5 of his 15 Denmark caps as a Morton player.

He has a chapter dedicated to him in Graeme Ross' More Morton Greats.

Morton career - starts, sub appearances, clean sheets:

1963/64:

Old Div 2: ? Lge Cup: ? Scot C: ? All Together: 5, 0, ?
1964/65:

Old Div 1: ? Lge Cup: ? Scot C: ? All Together: 43, 0, ?
1965/66:

Old Div 1: ? Lge Cup: ? Scot C: ? All Together: 39, 0, ?
1966/67:

Old Div 2: ? Lge Cup: ? Scot C: ? All Together: 46, 0, ?
1970/71:

Old Div 1: ? Lge Cup: ? Scot C: ? All Together: 30, 0, ?

1971/72:

Old Div 1: ? Lge Cup: ? Scot C: ? All Together: 42, 0, ?

1972/73:

Old Div 1: ? Lge Cup: ? Scot C: ? All Together: 11, 0, ?

Totals:

League: ? Lge Cup: ? Scot C: ?

Overall: 216 Starts, 0 Sub App, ? Clean sheets

These stats are taken from Graeme Ross' More Morton Greats as are most of the details of his career. Although some are from my own research I did for an article for Mortononline: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/c.scott2/columnists/jonaton/110903johnnyforeigner.html. Neil Brown's online database has it as 173 appearances but I think Brown's site only lists statistics for league matches.

Erik (back row, 5th from left) Wearing His Trademark All Black Kit In The 1964/65 Team Photograph

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