Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

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Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
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Ole Gunnar Solskjaer (2014)
Personnel
birthday February 26, 1973
place of birth Kristiansund ,  Norway
size 178 cm
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
Clausenengen FK
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1990-1994 Clausenengen FK 109 (115)
1994-1996 Molde FK 42 0(31)
1996-2007 Manchester United 235 0(92)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1995-2007 Norway 67 0(23)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2008-2010 Manchester United Reserves
2011-2013 Molde FK
2014 Cardiff City
2015-2018 Molde FK
2018– Manchester United
1 Only league games are given.

Ole Gunnar Solskjær [ sulʃɐ ] (born February 26, 1973 in Kristiansund ) is a former Norwegian soccer player and today's soccer coach . The 67-time Norwegian international played for Manchester United from 1996 to 2007 , during which time he won six English championships in 1999, the UEFA Champions League and the World Cup. In the early 2010s he won three national titles as a coach with Molde FK . He has been the head coach of Manchester United since December 2018.

Career as a player

In Norway

Solskjær's football career began at the age of 17 with the Norwegian club Clausenengen FK . In 1994 the striker moved to Molde FK in the top Norwegian league. In 42 games he scored 31 goals for Molde before Alex Ferguson brought him to Manchester United in 1996.

At Manchester United

In his first season at United, Solskjær scored 18 goals and won the English league title with the club. Since the Champions League final in 1999 against Bayern Munich , the Norwegian is a legend among fans of the club, as he then was one of the two scorers, who secured the second CL title for Manchester United in stoppage time within three minutes . Solskjær scored the 2-1 here.

Due to several injury breaks and the strong competition in the United attack, the trained striker was often used as an attacking midfielder . Solskjær made his first appearance in midfield as an injury-related replacement for David Beckham .

Because of a knee operation in August 2004, Solskjær was not used for the entire 2004/05 season. He made his comeback on December 5, 2005 in the reserves of Manchester United against Liverpool.

At the end of August 2007, the 67-time national player ended his career. He thus drew the consequences of the persistent knee problems that he had had since 2004. Manchester United announced that Solskjær will find a new job on the club's coaching staff.

National team

Solskjær played 67 games for the Norwegian national team , including the 1998 World Cup and the 2000 European Championship . For Norway he scored a total of 23 goals.

Career as a coach

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From 2011 to 2014 he was the coach of the Norwegian first division team Molde FK . During this time he was able to win the Norwegian championship twice .

On January 2, 2014 it was announced that Solskjær would be the new coach at Cardiff City , the Welsh capital club, which was in acute danger of relegation at the time . There he could not turn things around and at the end of the season he was relegated with Cardiff from the Premier League . In the following second division season , he resigned after the 7th match day due to a capital false start and the accompanying discussions about himself.

After a year off, Ole Gunnar Solskjær returned to Molde FK in October 2015 , where he signed a contract until 2018.

On December 19, 2018, Solskjær took over the Manchester United Premier League team, which was sixth in the table with 26 points after 17 matchdays, as an initially interim replacement for the previously dismissed José Mourinho until the end of the 2018/19 season . Originally, he should return to Molde FK after the end of the season, which would have missed the first league weeks of the Eliteserien 2019 , which started at the end of March . Under Solskjaer Manchester United won through March 14 of his 19 competitive matches, standing in the league reach the Champions League places in fifth place and reached the Champions League quarter-finals after Paris Saint-Germain defeated in the second round. On March 28, 2019, Solskjær received a new contract with a term until June 30, 2022, with which he no longer returned to Molde.

successes

As a player

International

National

As a trainer

Molde FK

Others

  • His goal in the 93rd minute of the 1999 Champions League final for a 2-1 win over FC Bayern Munich inspired the fans to write the song "Who put the ball in the Germans' net?", Which is still popular today.
  • United fans nowadays like to call him "The baby-faced Assassin" ( The killer with the baby face ).
  • He was also called "Super-Sub" (abbreviation for substitution) because he was known for scoring important goals even after being substituted on late.
  • In the Manchester United match against Nottingham Forest, he was substituted on twelve minutes before the end of the game and still scored 4 goals.
  • With a total of 28 goals after substitutions, he still holds the club record at Manchester United.
  • On November 27, 2012 the Norges Fotballforbund accepted him as the first player in the "Hall of Fame" of Norwegian football.
  • Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is the holder of the Norwegian Royal Order of Saint Olav

Web links

Commons : Ole Gunnar Solskjær  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ United stalwart retires
  2. ↑ Solskjaer resigns from Cardiff City spiegel.de, accessed on September 19, 2014
  3. ↑ Ole Gunnar Solskjær appointed caretaker manager , December 19, 2018, accessed December 19, 2018.
  4. ↑ Ole Gunnar tar over som vicarierende managers i Manchester United , moldefk.no, December 19, 2018, accessed December 19, 2018.
  5. ↑ "He's the right one": Manchester United makes Solskjaer head coach , kicker.de, March 28, 2019.
  6. ↑ Solskjaer announced as full-time manager , manutd.com, March 28, 2019, accessed on March 28, 2019.
  7. ↑ Solskjær's biography on manutd.com
  8. ↑ Bayern-Schreck Solskjaer in "Hall of Fame"
personal data
SURNAME Solskjaer, Ole Gunnar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Kristiansund , Norway