Rune tangen

Rune tangen
Personnel
birthday	December 16, 1964
place of birth	Moss ,  Norway
size	187 cm
position	defender
Juniors
Years	station
1975-1983	Moss FK
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1983-1991	Moss FK	123 (11)
1991-1994	Rosenborg Trondheim	62 0(6)
1994-1996	Moss FK	41 0(6)
1996-1997	FC Tirol Innsbruck	11 0(2)
1997-1999	LASK Linz	32 0(5)
1999-2009	Moss FK	84 0(8)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1984-1985	Norway U-21	13 0(0)
1989	Norway B	1 0(0)
1988-1990	Norway	3 0(1)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2003	Moss FK (player-coach)
2003-2009	Moss FK (co-trainer)
2005-2009	Moss FK II
2009–	Ekholt BK
1 Only league games are given.

Rune Tangen (born December 16, 1964 in Moss ) is a former Norwegian soccer player and current soccer coach . He is currently under contract as a coach at the lower class Ekholt BK.

Alongside Jan Einar Aas, he is considered one of the best players in the history of Moss FK , where he also spent a large part of his career. With Moss he won all club titles relevant in Norway from the youth championship onwards.

Club career

Career start

Tangen began his playing career at the age of 10 in the youth of his home club Moss FK . In 1983 he was first district champion with the youth team and later also national youth champion. The final game took place in Mosjøen against the then talent supplier Mosjøen IL. Moss won 3-2 in front of a record crowd of 3500 to 4000 spectators for youth games at the time. Most of the audience were Moss fans.

In the same year he also made his debut in the Cup and the league for the professional team of Moss FK and celebrated his first professional title by winning the Norwegian Cup. From 1984 he became a regular player in the club and the Norwegian U-21 national team. In 1985 he was unhappy for the first time when he was tenth in the table with the team in the 1st divisjon fotball .

As a result, the club kept the team around veteran Jan Einar Aas with the club and immediately managed to rise again as the second division champion. In 1987 Tangen was then an important part of the Moss, which surprisingly won the Norwegian championship title for the first time.

Moss, as a climber actually acted as a relegation candidate, fought a duel for the title against Molde FK over the entire season , which could be fixed after a win in a direct duel in the penultimate round. In addition to captain Einar Aas and top scorer Jan Kristian Fjærestad , Erland Johnsen and Tangen, who formed the league's youngest central defense, were the guarantors of the title win.

There followed three unspectacular seasons in midfield of the league, in which the championship team fell apart either through sales (including Johnsen to Bayern Munich ) or resignations (Einar Aas). Most attempts were made to replace the departures with their own talent, which in 1990 led to the second relegation in the club's history. Tangen, meanwhile national player of Norway , was then also no longer to be held and moved to the big club Rosenborg Trondheim .

Successful time in Trondheim

In Trondheim he formed an experienced central defense with Trond Henriksen from then on , in addition to which the defensive talents Bjørn Tore Kvarme , Ståle Stensaas , Bjørn Otto Bragstad , Stig Inge Bjørnebye could mature into top players. In 1991 he was just about runner-up with Rosenborg behind Viking Stavanger , before he became the measure of all things in Norway with the club from 1992. In 1992 he celebrated winning the Norwegian double, in 1993 another championship title. Despite his status as a regular player and a new contract offer from Rosenborg, he then surprisingly decided to return to Moss, who had been bobbing around since his departure in the second division.

Back at Moss, he once again made it back to the elite series as a second division champion , where, however, the hussar piece of 1987 could not be repeated. Despite a highly talented Martin Andresen and an outstanding Tangen at his performance peak, you could only win seven league games and rose as twelfth in the table, equal on points with Strømsgodset IF , again unhappy.

Years abroad

Shortly after relegation, he then moved for the first time on loan abroad to Austria to FC Tirol Innsbruck . The change was arranged by the then Tyrolean sports director Ove Flindt-Bjerg , who urgently had to sign a defense chief due to a serious injury to Michael Baur . He scored a goal on his debut. Two more games followed before he was also seriously injured. However, due to the departure of Baur in the winter transition period to Japan to the Urawa Red Diamonds , Tyrol nevertheless decided to buy Tangen, which remained convalescent for the entire rest of the season.

In the 1997/98 season Tangen was fit again and formed the central defense of Tyrol with Aleksander Knavs at the beginning of the season . The Baur, who has just returned from Japan, was initially given a place in the team's defensive midfield. In the first leg of the first round of the UEFA Cup against Celtic Glasgow , which Tyrol won 2-1 as a blatant underdog, he then offered an outstanding performance, which was overshadowed by a disastrous team performance in the second leg. Since Tyrol did not want to afford two top earners like Tangen and Baur, it was then handed over to league competitor LASK Linz during the autumn transfer period .

Compatriot and LASK coach Per Brogeland had previously declared Tangen to be an absolute dream player and made him head of defense for Linz straight away. At the former Norwegian branch LASK, in addition to Brogeland, three other “Northmen” were under contract: Hai Ngoc Tran , Vidar Riseth and Geir Frigård , Tangen quickly settled in and became one of the team's top performers. With Tangen, LASK managed to establish itself in the top field of the league with pleasing football, before the club almost slid into bankruptcy in the course of the "Rieger Affair" around President Wolfgang Rieger. As a consequence, there were rigorous austerity measures, whereupon almost the entire team broke up.

Career end

Tangen then moved back to Moss FK to finish his career off on a free transfer. As a result, he was active as a regular player until the end of 2002, before he announced his official career end after relegating for the third time with Moss. At the end of the 2003 season, he resigned for the first time when he took over the relegation-threatened Moss as player-coach. He completed the last eight championship games and managed to stay up. In 2004 he celebrated another comeback in the last two games of the season. Moss urgently needed 6 points from the last two games in order not to sink into the insignificance of the third division. Moss won both games, with Tangen scoring the decisive goal for the 1-0 win in the penultimate game. His last comeback as a substitute goalkeeper followed in 2009. Due to a series of injuries, the club only had one fit goalkeeper available, whereupon Tangen sat on the bench as a substitute goalkeeper for five games.

Coaching career

After retiring, he began his coaching career at Moss FK as an assistant to Erik Brakstad. After the chronic unsuccessfulness of Brakstad, the club management soon decided to install Tangen as a player-coach. He held this position until autumn 2003, before he too had to return to the second member due to unsuccessfulness. Until 2009 he then worked as an assistant to various coaches in the professional department, from 2005 he also looked after Moss FK II as head coach.

In 2009 he surprisingly announced his departure from the club after more than 30 years and took over the vacant coaching position at the lower class Ekholt BK.

National team

From 1984 to 1985 he ran a total of thirteen times for the Norwegian U-21 team .

In 1988 he played in the only game of the Norwegian B national team in the 80s against the English B national team. The game played on May 22, 1989 in Stavanger ended in a 0-1 defeat against the English.

On April 26, 1988 he made his debut in a 0-0 friendly against Sweden in the senior team . As a result, it took until February 1990 before he was used again in the national team. On February 4, 1990 he succeeded in a 3-2 in a friendly against South Korea his only goal for his country. On February 7, 1990 he ran the last time in the friendly against Malta in the national team.

successes

In the club

• 3 × Norwegian champion: 1987, 1992, 1993
• 2 × Norwegian Cup winners: 1983, 1992
• 2 × champions: 1st divisjon fotball (second highest division): 1986, 1995
• 1 × Norwegian runner-up: 1991
• 1 × Norwegian youth champion: 1983
• 1 × youth district champion ( Østfold ): 1983

As a player

• 1 × Moss FK Player of the Year: 1996

Web links

• Player profile at altomfotball.no

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Ferdig i Moss Fotballklubb (Norwegian)  ( 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. mossfk.no, accessed on May 10, 2010  
2. ↑ FC Tirol: Season 1996/97 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed May 10, 2010 
3. ^ UEFA Cup 1997/98 / Qualification first leg / Innsbruck, Tivoli austriasoccer.at, accessed on May 10, 2010
4. ↑ UEFA-Cup 1997/98 / qualification second leg / Glasgow, Celtic Park austriasoccer.at, accessed on May 10, 2010
5. ↑ Rune Tangen trolig til Moss (Norwegian) vg.no, accessed on 10 May 2010
6. ↑ Rune Tangen fratatt ansvaret (Norwegian) nrk.no, accessed on 10 May 2010
7. ↑ Rune Tangen he says opp i Moss (Norwegian)  ( 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. fotball.aftenposten.no, accessed on May 10, 2010  
8. ^ Norway - International Results B-Team rsssf.com, accessed May 10, 2010
9. ↑ Friendly in Valletta, Malta, February 4  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. rsssf.com, accessed May 10, 2010