Dagny Mellgren

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Dagny Mellgren
Personnel
Surname Dagny Mellgren Haugland
birthday June 19, 1978
place of birth Stavanger ,  Norway
size 166 cm
position attack
Women
Years station Games (goals) 1
1996-1998 Klepp IL 27 (15)
1999-2000 Arna-Bjørnar 36 (12)
2001-2003 Boston Breakers (36)
2004-2005 Klepp IL 29 0(1)
Ålgård
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1996-1997 Norway U-20 4 0(0)
1998 Norway U-21 4 0(2)
1999-2005 Norway 95 (49)
1 Only league games are given.

Dagny Mellgren Haugland (born June 19, 1978 in Stavanger ) is a former Norwegian soccer player . She played from 1999 to 2005 in the women's national team , with which she was Olympic champion at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney and scored the decisive golden goal in the final .

Career

society

Mellgren played from 1996 to 1998 at Klepp IL , a club south of her home town of Stavanger , which ten years earlier had once been Norwegian champions . In 1997 she finished the championship season with Klepp in third place and reached the cup final in 1996 and 1997 in which she lost each time against the long-term winner Trondheims-Ørn SK . In 1998 she was named player of the year. In 1999 she moved to Arna-Bjørnar and reached the cup final with the club in 2000, but lost it 1: 4 against Asker SK . In 2001 she moved to the newly founded Women's United Soccer Association and was fourth-best goalscorer with 11 goals in the first season in 2001 , but missed the playoffs with her team in sixth place. In the following year it went well. In 2003 she took first place with her team after the league round and was the best goalscorer with 14 goals together with Frenchwoman Marinette Pichon . In the playoffs, however, they lost after a goalless 120 minutes on penalties to Washington Freedom . Since the WUSA was then discontinued for financial reasons, she returned to Norway to her home club, where she played two more seasons. In total, she played 136 games for Klepp in five seasons, in which she scored 69 goals.

National team

Mellgren played four games for the Norwegian U-20 team in 1996 and 1997 and four games with the U-21 team in the Nordic Cup in the Netherlands in 1998 , which the Norwegians won. She scored a goal in the 2-1 final against the USA.

On March 14, 1999, at the age of 20, she made her debut at the Algarve Cup 1999 in the first group game against Finland in the Norwegian senior team when she was substituted on for Ann Kristin Aarønes a minute before the end of the game , who played for Norway for the 100th time in this game played. She was substituted on in the other two group games as well. In the game for third place against Denmark , which the Norwegians won on penalties , she was in the starting line-up for the first time. She scored her first international goal on May 12, 1998 in a 2-2 draw against Italy . It was also used in the following game, the last test match before the 1999 World Cup , and was then taken into account for the World Cup. After three wins in the group, in which they were used twice and taxed the last goal to a 4-0 win in the game against Japan , and a 3-1 in the quarter-finals against permanent rivals Sweden, their team was well on the way to defending their title , but then suffered a 5-0 defeat against China in the semi-finals , in addition to a 5-0 defeat against Sweden in August 1985, the Norwegians' biggest international defeat. The game for third place was then lost to Brazil on penalties, but Melgren did not have to participate. After all, the Norwegians qualified for the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney by reaching the semifinals , and there they won the gold medal with their team. In the final against the USA she came on in the 83rd minute for record goal scorer Marianne Pettersen . After their team equalized a minute before the break and took the lead in the 78th minute, they had to accept the equalizer in the second minute of stoppage time. In the 102nd minute she managed the golden goal and thus the Olympic victory . It is the only Olympic final that was decided by a golden goal.

At the EM 2001 she failed with her team in the semi-finals against the old and new European champions Germany . In the group matches she had scored two goals: the goal to make it 3-0 against France and the goal to make it 1-1 against Italy .

In March 2002 she reached the final of the Algarve Cup 2002 with Norway , but lost it 0-1 against China , where she could not use several chances to score. Two years later, Norway reached the final again and for the last time to this day. Due to an injury she was unable to participate and her team lost again - this time against record winners USA.

At the 2003 World Cup , where she was the team captain of the Norwegians, she was twice named “Player of the Game” and elected to the All-Star Team. With three goals she also had a significant share in the quarter-finals, but there she lost against the USA with 0-1.

At the EM 2005 she reached the final again on her 27th birthday, in which she was also able to score the goal for a 1: 2 goal, but lost it 1: 3 against defending champions Germany. After the EM, she played three more games in qualifying for the 2007 World Cup . Her last game was against Italy on October 29, 2005, when she was substituted at the last minute. In 95 international matches, she scored 49 goals and missed admission to the 50s club by one goal . She ranks sixth among the Norwegian top scorers.

successes

  • Olympic champion 2000
  • WUSA top scorer in 2003
  • Vice European Champion 2005

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b kleppil.no: Utmerkelser
  2. ↑ fifa.com: "Washington and Atlanta contest WUSA finals"
  3. ↑ kleppil.no: Calendar of nobility
  4. ↑ Nordic Cup (Women U-20 / U-21 / U-23)
  5. ↑ Brazil - Norway 0: 0, 5: 4 iE
  6. ↑ Norway - USA 3: 2 nV (2: 2, 1: 1)
  7. ↑ fifa.com: “9. Algarve Cup China wins Algarve Cup "
  8. ↑ fifa.com: "Reinvigorated US women win the Algarve Cup title"
  9. ↑ fifa.com: "Bud Light Player of the Game: Dagny Mellgren"
  10. ↑ fifa.com: "Germany for the fourth time in a row European champions"
personal data
SURNAME Mellgren, Dagny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mellgren Haugland, Dagny (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Stavanger , Norway