Eirik Bakke

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Eirik Bakke
Eirik Bakke, 2016.jpg
Personnel
birthday September 13, 1977
place of birth Sogndal ,  Norway
size 189 cm
position midfield player
Juniors
Years station
until 1993 Sogndal IL
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1993-1999 Sogndal IL 99 (18)
1999-2006 Leeds United 143 0(8)
2005-2006 →  Aston Villa  (loan) 14 0(0)
2006-2010 Brann Bergen 82 0(8)
2011–2012 Sogndal Fotball 38 0(1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1993 Norway U-15 9 0(4)
1994 Norway U-16 4 0(2)
1994-1995 Norway U-17 5 0(3)
1995-1996 Norway U18 11 0(3)
1997 Norway U-20 3 0(0)
1996-1999 Norway U-21 34 0(1)
1999-2008 Norway 27 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2015– Sogndal Fotball
1 Only league games are given.

Eirik Bakke (born September 13, 1977 in Sogndal ) is a former Norwegian football player and today's coach . He is currently under contract with his hometown club Sogndal Fotball .

He was a member of Norway's "Second Golden Generation" , which came third at the 1998 U-21 European Football Championship in Bucharest .

Club career

Bakke began his career in the youth of his home club Sogndal IL , for which his father Svein Bakke was already active and is still the record scorer today. In 1993 he made his debut in the professional team at the age of 15, before he became a regular player at the age of 17 and was named the youngest captain in the club's history. Although he was with the then Sogndal elevator team in a total of seven seasons three times and twice ascent, he remained loyal to the club until 1999. During the summer transition period, he moved to England to Leeds United for the club's record sum of 45 million Norwegian kroner (around 2.6 million euros), which still exists today .

Time in England

After a few years in midfield of the league, coach David O'Leary had taken over the team and carried out a radical change. In addition to Bakke, who immediately had a regular place in right midfield, he pushed talents such as Jonathan Woodgate , Alan Smith or Harry Kewell , all of whom made the breakthrough. After veteran David Batty struggled with injury problems, Bakke moved to the center as his replacement, where he became a key player in Leeds' soaring at the end of the 1990s alongside his compatriot Alf-Inge Haaland . Until 2002, he and his team were always in the top five of the league and reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup and the UEFA Champions League . At the end of the 2002/03 season he suffered a serious knee injury that had a major impact on his career. After he came back from convalescence shortly before the end of the season, he took part in two qualifying games for the 2004 European Championship against Denmark and Romania against the wishes of the club's medical department . As a result, he suffered a tear in the patellar tendon and came in the following season on only ten league appearances. During its failure, the club went through a gradual decline. In addition to the dismissal of successful coach O'Leary, the majority of the top performers such as Woodgate, Kewell, Ian Harte or Rio Ferdinand had been sold or given up due to major financial difficulties and relegated to the championship . Bakke was also to be sold to Everton FC as a player who had to be replaced, but could not come to an agreement with the Liverpoolers and thus remained as the top earner in the club's second division squad. Shortly after the transfer failed, he tore his cruciate ligament and fell out again for over six months. His comeback followed at the end of January 2005, before he sustained a knee injury again and had to take a break until the end of the season. In the 2005/06 season he played a total of ten first round games without being able to convince before his ex-coach and sponsor O'Leary brought him back to the Premier League on loan to his new club Aston Villa . In Birmingham, however, he was again unable to build on his old performance and was sent back to Leeds after 14 games of the season without a goal due to a high financial risk. As a top earner at the still financially tight club, he was then advised to leave the team, whereupon he surprisingly moved back home to Brann Bergen .

In Bergen, too, he had to contend with injury problems from then on and only made seventeen league appearances in a year and a half. In 2007 he was free of injuries for the first time over a longer period of time and with a delay advanced to the hoped-for reinforcement of the team. In addition to captain Martin Andresen and storm tank Thorstein Helstad , he then led Brann to the first Norwegian championship title since 1963. After moving from Andresen to Vålerenga Oslo , he took over his captaincy, which he held until 2010. The championship year was followed by two seasons in midfield of the league due to the countless departures of top performers, before the club got into the relegation battle for the first time in years, but managed to stay in league as thirteenth in the table.

After his home club Sogndal Fotball for season 2011 again made it into the show after six years abstinence excellence had done, he moved free transfer back to his footballing roots. Sogndal, who was able to sign another veteran with a club history in addition to Bakke with Tore Andre Flo , managed to stay in the league in the following two years and prevailed against clubs with a much higher budget such as Stabæk Fotball or Fredrikstad FK . Bakke played 38 times for the club in the Tippeligaen before ending his playing career in the 2013 season.

National team

In the course of his career he was used for every Norwegian national team.

In the spring of 1998 he played with a U-23 / Olympic team (see note) from his country, in preparation for the U-21 European Championship, the invitation tournament "Cyprus Tournament", where he was used in three matches against senior national teams.

His greatest success on an international level came with third place at the U-21 European Football Championship in 1998 . The team put together by coach Nils Johan Semb with players such as Hai Ngoc Tran , Steinar Pedersen , Thorstein Helstad , Steffen Iversen , Erik Nevland , Trond Andersen or Frode Kippe , is considered the "second golden generation" of Norway, which has been the picture for years shaped in the senior national team.

After eliminating France and Switzerland in the qualification / group stage, they rose to the semi-finals after a 1-0 victory over arch-rivals Sweden, where they, however, faced later European champions Spain with Juan Carlos Valerón , who was already established at their clubs , Míchel Salgado , Roger García and Guti were beaten 0-1. Norway were able to keep the game open for the full 90 minutes before Víctor scored the decisive goal in stoppage time. In the game for third place against the Netherlands they were then successful 2-0 thanks to a brace from Steffen Iversen.

On January 20, 1999, he and Bjørn Otto Bragstad made his debut in the Norwegian national team in a 0-1 away win in the friendly against Israel . Coach Semb was promoted from the U-21 to the senior national team and made a change in which he gradually brought a large number of the U-21 regular players into the A-team. As a result, Bakke formed the team's midfield tribe together with Erik Mykland , Øyvind Leonhardsen , Roar Strand and Petter Rudi until 2003 . Bakke then took part with Norway in the 2000 European Championship , where they could celebrate a 1-0 victory over Spain after a goal by Steffen Iversen . After a 0: 1 defeat against Yugoslavia , the team was eliminated from the tournament by a final 0: 0 draw, due to the poorer direct comparison with the Yugoslav selection. He played all three preliminary round matches. The subsequent qualification for the 2002 World Cup was mixed and with only ten points he missed participation in the final tournament with the national team as fourth in qualification group 5 behind Poland , Ukraine and Belarus . The qualifying round for the European Championship 2004 was a bit more successful again, as the team qualified for the play-off games behind group winners Denmark . After a 1: 2 away defeat in the first leg, Semb failed with the selection after a 0: 3 home defeat in the second leg, but against the Spanish national team . The association then dismissed Semb at the end of 2003 and replaced him with Åge Hareide . At the same time, Bakke lost his regular place due to injury problems and was only used twice, in 2005, during a 0-2 home defeat against Switzerland and in 2008, during a 3-1 defeat against the Montenegrin national football team .

In total, he completed 27 international matches for Norway from 1999 to 2008 without scoring, making him the owner of the "Golden Clock", which is awarded to every Norwegian national player who has completed at least 25 senior team appearances.

Annotation:

In 1998 the Norwegian federation set up a U-23 team under the name "Olympic Team Norway" in preparation for the U-21 European Championship. The background to this was the fact that the players were not allowed to be over the age of 22 at the beginning of the qualification for the final round and Norway thus had a squad with several U-23 players, including Bakke. The team played a total of 5 test games against European A&B national teams, which were initially recognized by the association and rated as U-21 games. Since 2015, these games have also been reported as unofficial in Norway.

Coaching career

After the relegation of Sogndal Fotball in fifteenth place in the 2014 season , Bakke took over the coaching position from the resigned Jonas Olsson in January 2015 and subsequently achieved immediate promotion as a champion in the OBOS league . In 2016 , he led the team, supported by the veterans Daniel Braaten and Azar Karadaş , in sixteenth in the final table to secure relegation.

successes

As a player

society

National team

participation

As a trainer

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Eirik Bakke clear for Sogndal (Norwegian) nrk.no, accessed on April 16, 2017
  2. ↑ Euro 2000: Eirik Bakke (English) bbc.co.uk, accessed on April 16, 2017
  3. ↑ Leeds await Bakke News (English) bbc.co.uk, accessed on April 17, 2017
  4. ↑ a b Leeds lose Bakke for year theguardian.com, accessed April 16, 2017
  5. ↑ Everton vil ha Eirik Bakke (Norwegian) dagbladet.no, accessed on April 16, 2017
  6. ↑ Bakke går til Aston Villa (Norwegian) dagbladet.no, accessed April 16, 2017
  7. ↑ Eirik Bakke clear for Brann (Norwegian) vg.no, accessed on April 16, 2017
  8. ↑ Dette er Branns nye kaptein (Norwegian) dagbladet.no, accessed on April 16, 2017
  9. ^ Cyprus Tournament 1998 rsssf.com, accessed April 17, 2017
  10. ↑ 1998: Iván Pérez makes Spain cheer uefa.com, accessed April 17, 2017
  11. ↑ Semb: - Norge har meget gode EM-sjanser (Norwegian) ( Memento from October 20, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) fotball.aftenposten.no, accessed on April 17, 2017
  12. ↑ Kampreferat av Israel - Norge - 01/20/1999 6:30 p.m. fotball.no, accessed on April 17, 2017
  13. ↑ U23 national team record rsssf.no, accessed on April 17, 2017
  14. ↑ Eirik Bakke blir ny Sogndal-trener (Norwegian) aftenposten.no, accessed on April 16, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Bakke, Eirik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Sogndal