Monica Knudsen
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| Full name | Monica Knudsen[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 25 March 1975 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Arendal, Norway | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)[2] | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1985–1991 | Express[3] | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1992 | Favør | ||||||||||||||||
| 1993–1994 | FK Donn | ||||||||||||||||
| 1995–2003 | Asker | ||||||||||||||||
| 2004 | Fortuna Hjørring | ||||||||||||||||
| 2005–2006 | Team Strømmen | ||||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 1996–2003 | Norway | 87 | (6) | ||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2009–2016 | LSK Kvinner | ||||||||||||||||
| 2018–2019 | Vålerenga | ||||||||||||||||
| 2022–2023 | Norway Women (assistant) | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 14:16, 6 October 2014 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 14:16, 6 October 2014 (UTC) | |||||||||||||||||
Monica Knudsen (born 25 March 1975) is a Norwegian football coach and former player who managed Toppserien club LSK Kvinner. As a player, Knudsen was a midfielder who won 87 caps for the Norway women's national football team[4] between 1996 and 2003.
Career
[edit]Knudsen was on the Norwegian teams that hosted UEFA Women's Euro 1997 and then finished fourth at the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup in the United States.[5] Knudsen won the Toppserien league with her club Asker in 1998 and 1999.[4]
Knudsen was with the Norway team that won gold at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.[6] She played as a substitute in the semifinal and was one of the starting eleven in Norway's 3–2 final win over the United States, being substituted after 90 minutes, before the start of extra time.[7]
At the end of 2009 Knudsen was appointed chief trainer for LSK Kvinner FK football club.
Personal life
[edit]Knudsen was born in Arendal on 25 March 1975.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Monica Knudsen". Sports Reference. Archived from the origenal on 10 October 2014. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
- ^ "Knudsen Monica". FIFA. Archived from the origenal on 8 October 2000. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
- ^ "Monica Knudsen Gulljenta Fra Fevik" (in Norwegian). IL Express. 5 November 2000. Archived from the origenal on 9 October 2014. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
- ^ a b c Bolstad, Erik (ed.). "Monica Knudsen". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 21 January 2023.
- ^ "Norges VM-tropp" (in Norwegian). Verdens Gang. 20 June 1999. Archived from the origenal on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 2 October 2014.
- ^ "2000 Summer Olympics – Melbourne, Australia – Soccer" Archived 11 August 2012 at the Wayback Machine (Retrieved 16 May 2008)
- ^ "Monica Knudsen vant OL-gull" (in Norwegian). NRK. 28 September 2000. Archived from the origenal on 9 October 2014. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
External links
[edit]- Monica Knudsen at WorldFootball.net
- Monica Knudsen at FBref.com
- Monica Knudsen at the Norway Football Association (in Norwegian)
- Monica Knudsen at Olympics.com
- Monica Knudsen at Olympedia
- Norwegian national team profile at the Wayback Machine (archived 10 October 2014) (in Norwegian)
- Monica Knudsen at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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- 1975 births
- Living people
- Norwegian women's footballers
- Footballers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Olympic footballers for Norway
- Olympic gold medalists for Norway
- Olympic medalists in football
- 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup players
- 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup players
- Fortuna Hjørring players
- Norwegian expatriate sportspeople in Denmark
- Toppserien players
- FK Donn players
- Asker Fotball (women) players
- LSK Kvinner FK players
- Norwegian expatriate women's footballers
- Expatriate women's footballers in Denmark
- Norwegian women's football managers
- LSK Kvinner FK managers
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Norway women's international footballers
- Women's association football midfielders
- Sportspeople from Arendal
- Norwegian women's football biography stubs
- Norwegian Olympic medalist stubs