Hallvar Thoresen

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Hallvar Thoresen
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Personnel
birthday April 12, 1957
place of birth LarvikNorway
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
Larvik Turn
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1976-1981 FC Twente Enschede 135 0(46)
1981-1988 PSV Eindhoven 196 (106)
1988-1991 Frigg Oslo FK 6 00(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1979-1989 Norway 50 00(9)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1991 Frigg Oslo FK
1992 Strømsgodset IF
1993-1995 Brann Bergen
1997 Odd Grenland
1998-2000 Lillestrøm SK (assistant coach)
2000 norway. Olympic selection
2000-2002 Skeid Oslo
2002 Lillestrøm SK (assistant coach?)
1 Only league games are given.

Hallvar Thoresen (born April 12, 1957 in Larvik ) is a former Norwegian football player and current football coach .

Player career

society

Thoresen was trained at the Norwegian football club Larvik Turn . At the age of 17 he was drawn abroad. In the summer of 1976, the Dutch club FC Twente Enschede signed him . After his first season in the Eredivisie , the attacking midfielder was able to celebrate winning the KNVB Cup . After five years Thoresen was poached by league competitor PSV Eindhoven . At PSV, he formed the heart of the team with Jurrie Koolhof, who was signed up in 1982 . Between 1986 and 1988, the championship was won three times in a row and in 1988 the Dutch Cup was won. In the period from 1983 to 1986 Thoresen was used as the team captain of the team and was thus the mainstay. Thoresen had his greatest success with Eindhoven in his last season in the Netherlands, when he won the European Cup alongside the cup and the championship. In the summer of 1988 he returned home to the lower class club Frigg Oslo FK .

Thoresen never played in the Tippeligaen , Norway's highest league, in his career .

National team

Thoresen was part of the Norwegian national team between 1979 and 1989 . In ten years he played 50 games and scored nine goals.

Success as a player

Coaching career

After his playing career, Thoresen became a coach at Frigg Oslo FK in 1991 . In the following years he also looked after the teams from Strømsgodset IF , Brann Bergen , Odd Grenland , Lillestrøm SK , the Norwegian Olympic team and Skeid Oslo .

Private

Thoresen's father Gunnar Thoresen was also a Norwegian international. In 1981 Thoresen played a supporting role in the film Escape or Victory alongside football greats such as Bobby Moore , Pelé and Osvaldo Ardiles as well as the actors Michael Caine , Max von Sydow and Sylvester Stallone .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Escape or Victory in the Internet Movie Database (English)