Stig Inge Bjørnebye

Stig Inge Bjørnebye
Personnel
birthday	December 11, 1969
place of birth	Elverum ,  Norway
size	178 cm
position	Left defender
Juniors
Years	station
	Elverum
	Streams
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1989-1991	Kongsvinger IL	62 (3)
1992	Rosenborg Trondheim	29 (3)
1992-2000	Liverpool FC	139 (2)
1994	→ Rosenborg Trondheim (loan)
2000	→  Brøndby IF  (loan)	13 (2)
2000-2002	Blackburn Rovers	56 (1)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1989-2000	Norway	75 (1)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2003-2006	Norway (assistant)
2006-2007	IK start
1 Only league games are given.

Stig Inge Bjørnebye (born December 11, 1969 in Elverum ) is a former Norwegian football player and current coach . He played in the left back position .

player

Stig Inge Bjørnebye was born in 1969 in Elverum, a town about 150 kilometers northeast of Oslo . He is the son of ski jumper Jo Inge Bjørnebye , who took part in the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo . He also jumped skis as a young boy, but quickly switched to football. In his youth he played for Elverum and later for Strømmen.

society

Bjørnebye moved from Strømmen to Kongsvinger IL . For Kongsvinger he played in the Tippeligaen from 1989 to 1991 . He played 62 games and scored three goals. In 1992 Bjørnebye went to Rosenborg Trondheim and won the Norwegian championship and the national cup that season. It was the first of 13 consecutive Tippeligaen championship titles for Rosenborg. He scored a goal in the cup final against Lillestrøm SK .

After the season Bjørnebye moved to the Premier League for Liverpool FC . In 1994 he was loaned to his previous club Rosenborg Trondheim and won the championship again. With Liverpool he won the League Cup in 1995 . Shortly thereafter, he broke a foot in the game against Southampton FC and was out for several months. After eight years in Liverpool and 139 league games and two goals, Bjørnebye was loaned to Danish club Brøndby IF at short notice in 2000 and played 13 games and scored two goals.

In the same year he moved to the Blackburn Rovers . With them he won his second League Cup in 2002. Then he ended his active career as a football player.

National team

Bjørnebye made his debut on May 31, 1989 in the Norwegian national football team , in a 4-1 home win over Austria . In the same year he was used in the last three qualifying games for the 1990 World Cup . A fourth place in the table was not enough for qualification in the end.

During the qualification for the European Championship in 1992 he ran twice. Norway could not qualify for the main round.

The qualification for the 1994 World Cup was more successful. Bjørnebye was in nine of the ten qualifying games and Norway finished first, ahead of the Netherlands and England . This was the second qualification for a World Cup finals after 1938 . Bjørnebye played all three of the finals. Norway beat Mexico 1-0, lost to Italy by the same score and parted from Ireland 0-0 . After the end of the group stage, all four teams had four points and an even goal difference. Due to only one goal scored, Norway finished last in the table and was eliminated.

In the following qualification for the European Championship in 1996 , he played six games. He was also used on the last day of the match in the 3-0 defeat against the Netherlands in Rotterdam . Norway would have needed a draw, and because of the defeat they only finished third behind the Czech Republic and tied behind the Netherlands.

In the subsequent qualification for the 1998 World Cup , Norway easily prevailed as the first in the table and reached the World Cup finals again after 1994. Bjørnebye played six of the ten qualifying games. Bjørnebye played all three group matches in the finals in France . The team drew each with Morocco and Scotland and defeated the Brazilians in their last game . Bjørnebye came to another World Cup appearance in the round of 16 against Italy . Norway were eliminated by a 1-0 defeat.

With seven games in a soccer world championship, Bjørnebye is next to Henning Berg and Kjetil Rekdal the player with the most appearances for his country.

Two years later Norway qualified for a European Championship for the first time. Bjørnebye played in 1998 the first three games in the qualifiers . In 1999 he did not play for an international match. At the European Championship finals in Belgium and the Netherlands, however, he was back in the squad. After Vegard Heggem injured himself before half-time in the second game against Yugoslavia , Bjørnebye was substituted on and also played the last group game against Slovenia . A third place in the group is not enough to reach the quarter-finals.

Bjørnebye played his last international match on October 7, 2000. It was a 1-1 draw in the World Cup qualifier against Wales in Cardiff .

Bjørnebye played 75 times for Norway, making him one of the top 10 players in his country with the most international appearances. In the friendly against the USA on September 8, 1993 in Oslo, he scored his only international goal.

successes

• Norwegian champion: 1992, 1994 (with Rosenborg Trondheim)
• Norwegian Cup Winner: 1992 (with Rosenborg Trondheim)
• English league cup winner : 1995 (with Liverpool FC) , 2002 (with Blackburn Rovers)

Trainer

In 2003 Stig Inge Bjørnebye was assistant coach of the Norwegian national football team under head coach Åge Hareide . He held this post until 2006. In 2006 he took over the Tippeligaen Club IK Start from Kristiansand as head coach. With almost seven million crowns , he was Norway's best-paid coach in 2006. After the 19th matchday of the 2007 season, he was dismissed at IK Start due to the team's low point yield. Start was at that point in a relegation zone and had not won ten game days in a row.

Private

Stig Inge Bjørneby is married to the former handball player Hege Frøseth and has three children. He is the son of ski jumper Jo Inge Bjørnebye .

Web links

• nrk.no, Stig Inge Bjørnebye , October 20, 2007
• Stig Inge Bjørnebye in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Verlag RIKRUCA, NOR ( Memento of the original dated August 6, 2007 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 December 3, 2007 
2. ↑ nrk.no, Bjørnebye best betalte trener , October 12, 2007
3. ^ VG nicely, - Det er mitt ansvar , September 5, 2007