Career
Axel Pilmar is one of the greatest technicians in Danish football history, able to the strike the ball with extreme precision. He stayed in the Danish team until 1950, when he signed a professional contract and was banned from the amateur-only Danish football. Many of his 1948 Olympic teammates were already professional in Italian football, with Karl Aage Hansen and Jørgen Leschly Sørensen at Atalanta Bergamo and Ivan Jensen at Bologna Football Club all trying to persuade Pilmark to join their team
Axel Pilmark"s passing became the main attacking strength, setting up chances for the Bologna forwards, and Jensen later declared Pilmark the best Serie A half-back at the time.
Pilmark stayed in Bologna for 10 seasons, playing 274 league games for the team