Morten Gamst Pedersen

Pedersen in the jersey of Karabükspor (2013 )

Morten Gamst Pedersen ( born September 8, 1981 in Oslo) is a Norwegian football player. The left midfielder since 2004 has been both an integral part of the Norwegian national team as well as Kardemir Karabükspor. As a player with Sami roots he was set up for the non- official football team of Lapland.

Sports career

Morten Gamst Pedersen was born in the Norwegian capital and a short time later, the family moved to distant Vadsø, which is not far away from Russia in the far northeast of the country. The garden of parents turned the young Morten for football and so that it looked like the playing fields on television, he voluntarily mowed three times a week the grass. His childhood idol was the Dutch center forward Marco van Basten and the Norwegian press Pedersen should call after a successful sporting breakthrough as " Van Gamsten ".

After youth stations in IL Norild and IL Polarstjernen Tromsø IL took him at the age of 18 under contract, and he quickly established himself not only in the local root formation, but also expressed his total as one of the most promising talents in Norwegian football. He drew the interest of many English Premier League clubs to himself why Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur, Aston Villa and Blackburn Rovers scored. It was, after Graeme Souness, who convinced the talent of a move to Blackburn.

The start to the new environment, but turned out to be less promising. Just two days after his arrival Pedersen debuted on August 28, 2004 or the 1-1 draw with Manchester United, but a short time later, coach Souness made ​​his farewells to Newcastle United and his successor Mark Hughes was not the lightweight left winger once robust enough for the Premier League. It was followed by three long months in the stands and when he came back in January 2005 to use occasions, he met in three consecutive games once each. The sporty line was thus sustained and confident with his above-average for a goalscoring midfielder and especially the free kick tricks titled him parts of the British press even as " Norwegian David Beckham ". Special attention gained Pedersen - who wants to be even better known by his mother, " Gamst " the name - with a double scoring in a 2-1 away win at Manchester United on 24 September 2005 Even under the following coaches Paul Ince and later Sam Allardyce. remained a fixture of the left-sided player in the Rovers, and at times he held the game formative position in central midfield. Although specifically in the season 2009/10 overtook him a form of crisis and he ended his " goal drought " in the club until May 2009, he signed in the summer of 2010 at the Rovers a new four-year contract.

In the summer of 2013 Pedersen moved in the Turkish Süper Lig on Kardemir Karabükspor.

Norwegian national

After appearances for the Norwegian U-18 and U-19 selections Morten Gamst Pedersen made ​​a U- 21 international attention to themselves, especially from 2001, and scored in 18 games until 2004 ten goals. Even before his move to England in the summer of 2004 he had already made ​​its debut in the senior team, there contributed on 18 February 2004 at first two goals in the 4-1 win against Northern Ireland and thus catapulted into the root formation. Although the respective qualification failed to finals tournaments in the years 2006, 2008, 2010, Pedersen was henceforth represented continuously in the national team - the " anniversary" of the 50th international match ended on 10 June 2009 against the Netherlands with a 0-2 defeat.

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