Nils Arne Eggen

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Nils Arne Eggen
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Nils Arne Eggen in 2010
Personnel
birthday September 17, 1941
place of birth OrkdalNorway
position Defender
Juniors
Years station
Orkdal IL
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
Orkdal IL
1960-1963 Rosenborg Trondheim 41 (0)
1964-1966 Vålerenga Oslo 44 (0)
1966-1969 Rosenborg Trondheim 54 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
Norway U-19 1 (0)
Norway U-21 1 (0)
1963-1969 Norway 29 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1971-1972 Rosenborg Trondheim
1973-1974 Norway U-21
1974-1977 Norway
1976 Rosenborg Trondheim
1978-1982 Rosenborg Trondheim
1983-1985 Orkdal IL
1985 Moss FK
1986-1987 Norway U-23
1988-1997 Rosenborg Trondheim
1999-2002 Rosenborg Trondheim
2010-2011 Rosenborg Trondheim
2011– Orkla FK
1 Only league games are given.

Nils Arne Eggen (born September 17, 1941 in Orkdal ) is a former Norwegian football player who now works as a coach . With Rosenborg BK he won the Norwegian championship title two times as a player and thirteen times as a coach.

career

Eggen started playing soccer at the local sports club Orkdal IL . After making his debut in the men's team at the age of 15, Rosenborg BK noticed his talent and signed the junior player. With the club he rose to the top class in 1960 and established himself as a regular player in the defense. Following a professional move to Oslo, he changed clubs in 1963 and joined the capital city club Vålerenga IF . At his new club he developed into a national player and in 1965 was one of the pillars of the team around Per Knudsen and Einar Bruno Larsen , which won the national championship.

In 1966 Eggen returned to Rosenborg BK, who had been promoted again after a short time in the second division. At the side of Harald Sunde and Odd Iversen , he was part of a young team that established the newcomer to the front of the league. With three points ahead of Skeid Oslo , the club won the championship title for the first time. Despite a second place the following year, he received the still unofficial award of Footballer of the Year. In 1969 he led the club again to win the championship, but then ended his active career.

Before the start of the 1971 season, Eggen inherited the Englishman George Curtis , under whose direction he had been on the field in 1969, as the coach of Rosenborg BK and led the training of the club from Trondheim together with Tor Røste Fossen . Success came straight away, winning the championship and national cup double in his first year . The national football association then recruited him. As assistant coach of the Norwegian national team under Curtis, he was primarily responsible for Norway's U-21 selection . In 1974 he inherited Curtis as national coach.

1978 Eggen returned as a coach to Rosenborgs BK and was inherited by Tor Røste Fossen as national coach. He led the club, which has now been relegated to the second division, back into the first division. There he established the team, but without being able to build on old successes. Therefore, he ended his engagement in 1982 and was replaced by Tommy Cavanagh . He then worked as a coach at his youth club Orkdal IL until he took over the second division club Moss FK in 1986 . He led the club to promotion and then as a newcomer to the Norwegian championship. Nevertheless, he left the club to take over Rosenborg BK again.

Eggen established Rosenborg BK as Norway's dominant team. Right in his first season he won the double again with the team. He repeated this success after the runner-up behind Lillestrøm SK in the seasons 1990 and 1992. With the third championship title in a row in the season 1994, the club closed with its ninth championship to the previous record champions Fredrikstad FK . In the following years, the club closed the league as the league leader and had a clear, double-digit point lead over the competition. After the fifth championship in a row, he ended his engagement in 1997, but returned after a season break in which Trond Sollied had led the club to the championship title, and won the championship in the four years up to 2002. He then moved into the management of the club, but left the club in 2005.

In May 2010 Eggen returned to Rosenborg BK as a coach again, as Erik Hamrén had been signed by the Swedish Association as national coach. In 2011 he left the club again in the direction of Orkla FK ; the following year his son Knut Torbjørn Eggen , who also worked as a football coach, died in his apartment.

In 1997 he won the election for Norway's Sportsman of the Year .

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