 Just after ending his career he started a firm together with his wife, former actress Rudi Nielsen, which imports Italian leather works to Scandinavia.Nielsen and Hansen met on the set of "Far til fire med fuld musik" in 1961 and married in 1963.In the 1970s Nielsen became involved in professionalising football in Denmark, and in 1977 he and later Danish Minister of Science Helge Sander planned to found a professional Danish football league.