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Norwegian association football player and manager

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Ståle Solbakken is a Norwegian association football player and coach born on February 27, 1968, in Kongsvinger Municipality. He played as a midfielder for teams including Lillestrøm SK, F.C. Copenhagen, Wimbledon F.C., and Hamarkameratene. He also represented Norway in the 1998 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2000.

Solbakken has served as a coach for Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. He is educated at Hedmark University College and speaks Norwegian. His child is Markus Solbakken. He stands 190 units tall.

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Group
Origin
Netherlands

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Listeners · Last.fm

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Total plays
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Key facts

1992
Norway U21
2020
Norway
Full name
Ståle Solbakken
Date of birth
( 1968-02-27 ) 27 February 1968 (age 58)
Place of birth
Kongsvinger , Norway
Height
1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Position
Midfielder
Current team
Norway (head coach)
0000 1989
Grue
Years
Team
1989 1994
Hamarkameratene
1994 1997
Lillestrøm
1997 1998
Wimbledon
1998 2000
AaB
2000 2001
Copenhagen
1994 2000
Norway
2002 2005
Hamarkameratene
2006 2011
Copenhagen

via Wikipedia infobox

Sports profile

Sport
Soccer
Team
Norway
Position
Manager
Nationality
Norway

via TheSportsDB

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Encyclopedic overview

Ståle Solbakken (born 27 February 1968) is a Norwegian professional football manager and former player who is the head coach of the Norway national team. Solbakken is the first manager to take Norway to the World Cup since Egil Olsen in 1998.

During his playing career, Solbakken was named 1995 Norwegian midfielder of the year and won the Danish Superliga championship with both Aalborg and Copenhagen (in 1999 and 2001, respectively). He played 58 matches and scored nine goals for Norway during the end of the 1990s and represented the country at the 1998 World Cup and 2000 European Championship tournaments. He ended his playing career in March 2001 following a heart attack.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ståle Solbakken” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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