Gro Espeseth

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Gro Espeseth
Personnel
birthday October 30, 1972
place of birth Bergen ,  Norway
position Midfield / defense
Juniors
Years station
Fri
Ådnamarka
Bjornar
Women
Years station Games (goals) 1
1991-1998 IL Sandviken at least 23 (9)
1999-2000 Trondheims-Ørn SK 10 (0)
2000-2001 New York Power 20 (1)
2007 IL Sandviken 1 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1989 Norway U-16 4 (0)
1990-1991 Norway U-20 3 (0)
1991-2000 Norway 105 (9)
1 Only league games are given.

Gro Espeseth (born October 30, 1972 in Bergen ) is a former Norwegian soccer player who became European champion in 1993 with the Norwegian national women's team , world champion in 1995 and Olympic champion in 2000 .

Career

societies

Espeseth began her career at IL Sandviken in her hometown of Bergen, where she played until 1998 and won the trophy in 1995 . She then moved to Trondheims-Ørn SK , the most successful women's football club in Norway at the time. Here she also won the Norwegian national championship title in 2000. At the end of her career she still played for New York Power in the North American professional league WUSA , where she was only able to play for one season due to knee problems. In October 2001 she ended her career because of chronic knee problems. In 2007 she became assistant coach at her previous club and made a league game for Sandviken in July 2007, which was lost 9-0 to Røa IL .

National team

With the U-16 team, she won the Nordic Cup in her home country in 1989 . A year later she was second in the Nordic Cup with the U-20 team in the older age group.

She played her first international match for the Norwegian senior team on March 2, 1991 in a 1-0 win against Sweden . She came on in the 82nd minute. She was then immediately a regular player, was used in the next nine games and scored her first two international goals in her second international game in a 4-1 against the USSR . Her first major tournament was the European Championship in 1991 , but in which the Norwegians in the final against Germany lost.

She was also nominated for the first women's World Cup . After 10 games in a row and a 4-0 defeat in the first World Cup game against China , in which she was substituted in the 70th minute, she was not used in the second group game against New Zealand . In the third group game against Denmark she was substituted on in the 40th minute. In the quarter-finals against Italy she was again waived, but she played the semifinals and final over the full distance, but lost 2-1 to the USA in the final . She then played 25 international matches in a row and during this time won the European Championship title in 1993 and in 1994, the first edition of the Algarve Cup . After a break of one game, 37 games followed without a break, winning the 1995 World Cup. By reaching the quarter-finals, the Norwegians had already qualified for the first Olympic soccer tournament at the Olympic Games in Atlanta . Although she was not used in the last game before the Olympic tournament, a European Championship qualifier against Finland , she made her 75th international match in the first Olympic game of the Norwegians and was then used in the other games through which she finally won the bronze medal . Then the first major international break of three games followed.

At the Algarve Cup 1997 she was used in the last two group games. The final - which the Norwegians won 1-0 against China - then took place without them. It then followed ten games in a row with the end in the preliminary round at the home European Championship 1997 .

In 1998 it was only used in one game. Then she was used again in the 1999 Algarve Cup in all four games, but this was followed by a break of 20 games, in which she also missed the 1999 World Cup and the 2000 Algarve Cup . In July 2000 it was used again in the tournament for the 100th birthday of the DFB and was then also nominated for the Olympic Games in Sydney . There she was used in all games except for the semifinals against Germany. In the final against the USA, one minute before half-time, she scored the 1-1 equalizer. Their team then took the lead in the 78th minute, but had to accept the equalizer in the second minute of stoppage time. In the 102nd minute, a golden goal from Dagny Mellgren succeeded in winning. It is the only Olympic final that was decided by a golden goal. With this game she ended her international career. From 1989 to 2000, she played 105 international matches, scoring nine goals, one each at world championships and one at the Olympic Games.

Private

Espeseth is mother of one son.

successes

With the national team

With clubs

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Norway duo announce retirement
  2. ↑ Sandviken - Røa 0-9
  3. ↑ Sverige - Norge 0-1
  4. ↑ Norge - Soviet Union 4-1
  5. ↑ USA - Norge 2 - 3
  6. ↑ vg.no: "Gro Espeseth: Derfor er tiden med fotball forbi"

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personal data
SURNAME Espeseth, Gro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Bergen , Norway