Martin Andresen
Martin Andresen ( born February 2, 1977 in Kråkstad ) is a former Norwegian football player and current coach. He is currently in Norway for Vålerenga Oslo under contract.
He is regarded as one of the outstanding players personalities Norway, the last ten years. From 2004 to 2008 he was interim captain of the Norwegian national football team. In 2003 he was elected as the first Stabæk IF player and only the second non- Legionnaires' Footballer of the Year in Norway.
- 3.1 In the club
- 3.2 As a player
Club career
Career start
Andresen began his career at the age of nine years in youth his home club ski IL. There he was discovered early by the Norwegian Association and made his debut aged 14 in the Norwegian U-15 national team.
In 1995, he was then given his first professional contract with Moss FK. In his first season he was with Molde master of 1 Divisjon and rose to the Tippeligaen. The following season the unfortunate immediate descent followed with the club as a third last. Andresen was the most conspicuous Moss player and advanced with six goals this season 's second top scorer of his club.
As a result, he signed for one year at the former sensation Team Viking Stavanger. Stavanger, which disappeared after the league title in 1991 into insignificance behind Rosenborg Trondheim, played for a long time around the track with and was next to Brann Bergen one of the teams, the thought capable supremacy of Rosenborg finish. But it was different. Stavanger had on the offensive by the zuvorigen sale by Egil Østenstad no impact and was just disappointing 8th. Andresen was again the most conspicuous player and finished the season with eight goals this season as top scorer of his club.
In 1998 he was appointed coach Hans Backe, who called Andresen as his absolute desire players and league changed internally to Stabæk IF. In Stabæk he became definitively one of the strongest players in the Tippeligaen and won with the Cup victory in his first year a title. Overall, he graduated in two seasons 54 games in which he scored 16 Torerfolge. Together with Tobias Linderoth and Tommy Svindal Larsen he made at that time the strongest midfield in Norway, which attracted the interest of various international associations themselves.
Flop at Wimbledon
As first of the trio, Andresen then moved for a then-record transfer fee of the equivalent of about three million euros to FC Wimbledon in the English Premier League.
Under coach and compatriot Egil Olsen he came in consequence, to inserts in Wimbledon, only without nearly as convincing as before in Stabæk. When Olsen was dismissed for failure of Wimbledon and replaced by Terry Burton, he arrived at the Londoners no longer used. To escape a fate on the bench, he was then for three months at Molde FK back rent in the home.
However, he could not completely convince even in Molde and scored in season 9 inserts only 1 goal. Then he returned to Wimbledon that was staying during his loan period in the Division One. In order to save his salary, then allowed to change him a free transfer back to Stabæk.
Superstar at Stabæk
Back in Stabæk he then played stronger than ever. With Andresen always occupied a place among the top 5 of the league and played in the meantime by Norwegian standards extremely spectacular football. And in 2002 Andresen was appointed team captain. In the 2003 season he became the superior man in the Norwegian league. After the departures of Linderoth to Everton and Svindal Larsen 1 FC Nuremberg, Stabæk had acted with Christian Wilhelmsson only a well-known player on the team and was a candidate for relegation. But Andresen grew beyond and held the team with outstanding performance almost the whole season in the title fight. At the end of the season we won 3rd place in the standings and Andresen received two Kniksenprisen for the best midfielder of Norway and the award for player of the year.
Of injuries in Blackburn
This was followed again several contract offers from various foreign clubs, but failed due to the high demand release of Stabæk. Since Andresen it should once again wanted to try abroad, the club agreed then with Blackburn Rovers about a change on loan. In one of Blackburn manager Graeme Souness, through countless transfers bloated Blackburn squad, he again received immediately secured a regular place and played until the end of the season of 2003/ 04 a solid partner in the middle of the Rovers. For the season 2004 /05 he was injured for the first time in his career seriously and missed the entire preparation of the association. Mark Hughes, who took over the post of unsuccessful Souness in the meantime, however, tried to purify the bloated squad and rebuild according to his ideas. As a result of convalescent Andresen was sent back to Stabæk.
Descent with Stabæk
Stabæk meanwhile, was caught in the relegation battle, the League after the departure of Wilhelmsson and Andresen. The club desperately needed a guide player who keeps the team from relegation. All hopes now rested on the " prodigal son ", who had returned to the rescue. But Andresen was still not fit and dragged the violation of Blackburn days with them. Despite not healed injury, he still played 13 games for Stabæk, without being able to avoid relegation. Andresen was then known not to want to play in the second division, after which the club gave his consent for contract negotiations. Since Stabæk for the newly minted captain again called for an exorbitant transfer fee, the exchange designed problematic. After the financially most potent Norwegian club Rosenborg already had jumped, negotiations played only from between Vålerenga Oslo and Brann Bergen.
Master with Brann Bergen
On 23 December 2004 Brann Bergen was the obligation of Andresen for club record fee of the equivalent of about € 2 million - known. This was followed by a disappointing first season in which he was held back by numerous injuries. Brann finished at the end of the season only the disappointing sixth place in the table, which. Due to the financial cost, which the club had operated in the transfer phase, especially in the criticism brought Andresen For more excitement was provided by the Norwegian press, which reported as captain to want to wear the captain's armband in the team from the claim Andresen. This led to disagreements between him and the former, in Bergen extremely popular, Brann Captain Cato Guntveit. After a bad injury Guntveits, which forced him the entire 2006 season for Watching, the controversy itself Andresen completed was appointed by Brann coach Mons Ivar Mjelde - captain.
The critics fell silent, as Andresen was able to stabilize its shape in the season and led the team to the runner-up title.
2007 was followed by the final triumph by winning the league title, which the first championship for Brann represented at the same time since the year 1963. Andresen was once again the superior man in midfield, which earned him a nomination in the Team of the Year. When choosing player of the year, however, he had to admit defeat of John Carew and his successor at large aufspielenden Stabæk Alanzinho.
Player-coach in Oslo
For the following season, he signed a three-year contract as player-coach at Vålerenga Oslo. So it came with three years late but still an obligation Andresen. In Oslo it takes since the part of the team coach and full-time player. With his team are still 5 more trainers for individual areas. In his first season he was in a thrilling Cup final, which was won against none Andresens former club Stabæk IF 4-1, equal to celebrate winning the title, the away comforted by a rather disappointing final rank 10. As a player, he came to 23 inserts season team scores a goal. In the 2009 season he was only able to complete 17 missions season due to a hemorrhoid suffering. Vålerenga is out of the title race and is located on a safe mid-table.
National
Andresen was already in the U -15 selection in his country for use. This was followed by other meetings in all youth national teams of Norway. From 1997 he was captain of the Norwegian U -21 national team.
On 15 August 2001, he made his debut in a friendly against Turkey for the Norwegian national football team. He then ran in the remaining qualifying matches for Euro 2004 football championships in Greece, for which Norway, however, failed to qualify.
When he was threatened during his time at Blackburn to lose his place in the starting line- the Norwegians, he found in John Carew a great advocate. Carew made for the retention Andresens as regulars strong, even if he only sporadically came into use at Blackburn. Then underpinned also Andresen its importance for the team and scored the winning goal in a 1-0 against Serbia & Montenegro in Belgrade. Coach Åge Hareide surprised before the game, when he first carried him over the armband. A month later he was also successful in a memorable 3-2 win over Russia scoring, thereby substantiating its claim to leadership final.
He was then appointed in Germany by coach Åge Hareide the official captain before qualifying for the 2006 World Cup. Previously, he had this function with the previous -budgetary Captain Claus Lundekvam shared. As a result, he led the team in 7 stakes as captain in the qualification where you could reach the second place in the standings behind Italy and thus the Barrage games. In this they lost twice unlucky 1-0 against the Czech Republic and thus failed to qualify. In two playoff games Andresen could not participate due to injury.
This was followed by the qualification for Euro 2008 in Austria and Switzerland. Long time it looked in that group after qualification of the team before they lost in the crucial match against tournament favorites, Turkey. Previously Andresen had 10 qualifiers for Norway denied before he again failed due to an injury in a crucial game. Norway was behind European champions Greece and Turkey only third party and could not qualify. Thus Andresen was taking part in a major football tournament Norway denied.
As the end of 2008 his condition became acute and he turned out for a few matches, he gave up his captaincy to Fulham Legionnaire Brede Hangeland on.
To date (October 2009), he completed 43 caps for Norway, where he scored 3 goals. Andresen is the owner of "Golden Clock ", this is awarded every Norwegian international, who has completed more than 25 A - Team Apps.