Morten Gamst Pedersen

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Morten Gamst Pedersen
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Pedersen in the jersey of Karabükspor (2013)
Personnel
birthday September 8, 1981
place of birth Oslo ,  Norway
size 183 cm
position Midfield (left)
Juniors
Years station
1997 IL Norild
1998 IL Polar Stars
1999 IL Norild
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2000-2004 Tromso IL 85 (41)
2004-2013 Blackburn Rovers 288 (35)
2013-2014 Kardemir Karabükspor 10 0(0)
2014-2016 Rosenborg Trondheim 28 0(3)
2016-2020 Tromso IL 88 0(3)
2020– Alta IF 0 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1999 Norway U18 4 0(3)
2000 Norway U-19 2 0(0)
2001-2004 Norway U-21 18 (10)
2004-2014 Norway 83 (17)
1 Only league games are given.
As of May 18, 2020

Morten Gamst Pedersen (born September 8, 1981 in Oslo ) is a Norwegian football player . As a player with Sami roots, he was also set up for the Sápmi football team .

Athletic career

Morten Gamst Pedersen was born in the Norwegian capital and only a short time later the family moved to distant Vadsø , which is located in the far northeast of the country not far from Russia. Young Morten turned his parents' garden into a soccer field and so that it looked like the playing fields on television, he voluntarily mowed the lawn three times a week. His childhood idol was the Dutch center forward Marco van Basten and the Norwegian press should refer to Pedersen as "Van Gamsten" after a successful sporting breakthrough.

After youth stations at IL Norild and IL Polarstjernen, Tromsø IL signed him at the age of 18 and he quickly established himself not only in the local team there, but also as one of the most promising talents in Norwegian football. He drew the interest of numerous English first division clubs, including Manchester United , Tottenham Hotspur , Aston Villa and the Blackburn Rovers . It was Graeme Souness , after all, who convinced the talent to move to Blackburn.

However, the start in the new environment was not very promising. Just two days after his arrival, Pedersen made his debut on August 28, 2004 in a 1-1 draw against Manchester United , but a short time later coach Souness said goodbye to Newcastle United and his successor Mark Hughes found the lightweight left winger not robust enough at first for the Premier League. There followed three long months in the stands and when he came back to employment opportunities in January 2005, he met once in three consecutive games. The sporting management was thus persistently convinced and with his above-average scoring risk for a midfielder and especially the free-kick tricks, parts of the English press even dubbed him the "Norwegian David Beckham ". Pedersen - who prefers to be called "Gamst" after his mother's name - received special attention with a double goal for the 2-1 away win at Manchester United on September 24, 2005. Also under the subsequent coaches Paul Ince and later Sam Allardyce The left-footed player remained a constant with the Rovers and at times he held the game-shaping position in the central offensive midfield. Although he suffered a form crisis especially in the 2009/10 season and he only ended his “peat sluggishness” in May 2009, he signed a new four-year contract with the Rovers in the summer of 2010.

In the summer of 2013 Pedersen moved to the Turkish Süper Lig to Kardemir Karabükspor . In March 2014, he terminated his contract there prematurely and returned to his Norwegian homeland, where he was from then on for Rosenborg Trondheim .

In February 2016 he joined Tromsø IL . After four seasons in Tromsø, he moved to Alta IF in March 2020 .

Norwegian national team

After appearances for the Norwegian U-18 and U-19 selections, Morten Gamst Pedersen drew attention to himself as a U-21 national player, especially from 2001, and scored ten goals in 18 games up to 2004. Before moving to England in the summer of 2004, he had already made his debut in the senior national team, where he immediately contributed two goals to the 4-1 win over Northern Ireland on February 18, 2004, catapulting himself into the regular formation. Although the qualification for the final tournaments in 2006 , 2008 and 2010 failed, Pedersen was from then on consistently represented in the national team - the "anniversary" for the 50th international match ended on June 10, 2009 with a 2-0 defeat against the Netherlands .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Morten Gamst Pedersen" (FootballDatabase)
  2. ^ "Only a Norwegian footballer - but he is more famous than his king" (The Guardian)
  3. ↑ weltfussball.de: Match report Manchester United - Blackburn Rovers (accessed on November 13, 2011)
  4. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who . Mainstream Publishing, 2009, ISBN 978-1-84596-474-0 , pp. 328-330 .
  5. ^ "Morten signs new deal" ( Memento from July 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (Blackburn Rovers FC)
  6. ↑ trtspor.com.tr: "Pedersen Karabükspor'da"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on August 30, 2013)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.trtspor.com.tr  
  7. ↑ Morten Gamst Pedersen - Player Profile 2020. Accessed May 18, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Pedersen, Morten Gamst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Oslo , Norway