Gunnar Halle
Hall as manager of Lyn Oslo ( 2009)
Gunnar Halle ( born August 11, 1965 in Larvik) is a former Norwegian football player. Between 1991 and 2002 he played for the English clubs Oldham Athletic, Leeds United Bradford City and Wolverhampton Wanderers. With the Norwegian national team, he participated in the World Cups in 1994 and 1998.
Playing career
First stations in Norway (until 1990 )
After his first stop at unterklassigen club Larvik Turn Hall changed in 1985 to the Norwegian first division club Lillestrøm SK. Until 1990, he played 128 league games, scoring 12 hits. With the club from Lillestrøm he won the 1985 Norwegian Cup ( 4-1 against Vålerenga Oslo), as well as 1986 and 1989, the Norwegian championship.
Oldham Athletic (1991-1996)
On February 15, 1991, the 25 -year-old defender moved for a transfer fee of £ 250,000 to the English second division club Oldham Athletic and rose with his new team in the premier league. With the league freshman hall reached in the Football League First Division 1991/92 as Tabellensiebzehnter the league. In the newly introduced Premier League 1992 /93 Association held at Gunnar Halle (41 league games / 5 goals) the class before, after three years of excellence descent takes place in the 1993/94 season in the second division. After two and a half more years in Oldham Hall left during the first round in 1996/97 the club and moved on 13 December 1996 for £ 500,000 for first division club Leeds United.
Leeds United (1996-1999)
With United, Halle ( 33 league games / 2 goals) in the Premier League 1997/98 the fifth place in the standings and thus qualified for the UEFA Awards 1998 /99. However, in the European Cup, the club had already failed in the second round of the Italian representative AS Roma (0:1 and 0:0). 1998/99, the club improved by one position to fourth place. However, Gunnar Halle denied only seventeen league games ( two goals ) and moved to the end of the season to Bradford City.
Bradford City (1999-2002)
His new team was previously the first time risen to the Premier League and reached in his debut season as the Seventeenth Premier League 1999/2000 almost in the league. The 34 -year-old Gunnar Halle played in all eight league games. After the descent, as Table from the Premier League 2000 / 01, he spent the final phase of the 2001/02 season on loan at Wolverhampton Wanderers.
After a final season in Norway with Lillestrøm SK he finished his professional career in 2003.
Norwegian National Team (1987-1999)
Gunnar Halle debuted on November 14, 1987, a 0-4 defeat in Bulgaria for the Norwegian national team. After a successful World Cup qualifying Norway reached with the participation of the Football World Cup 1994 in the U.S. for the first time since the Soccer World Cup 1938 World Cup final tournament again. The team led by Erik Thorstvedt, Rune Bratseth, Stig Inge Bjørnebye, Alf -Inge Håland, Lars Bohinen and Gunnar Halle had previously left surprisingly the favorite teams of the Netherlands and England behind. After his nomination in the Norwegian World Cup squad of 28 -year-old Hall played two of the three group matches (1-0 against Mexico, 0-1 against Italy and 0-0 against Ireland), left with his team but level on points with all three group opponents by the preliminaries of.
Another World Cup participation reached the 32 -year-old Gunnar Halle with the nomination for the Norwegian World Cup squad the soccer World Cup 1998 in France. In the final tournament, he came, however, only in the second group match against Scotland (1-1) are used. Norway failed in the second round 0-1 to Italy.
Three of his five international goals get the defender on 9 September 1992 at 10-0 home win against San Marino.