Rune Bratseth
Rune Bratseth in 2010
Rune Bratseth ( born March 19, 1961 in Trondheim ) is a former Norwegian football player. Today he works as a manager at Rosenborg in Norway.
Bratseth played between 1986 and 1995 for Werder Bremen in the position of libero. In 230 Bundesliga games he scored 12 goals. He denied 1986-1994 60 caps for Norway, where he scored four goals.
The sporting highlight was the participation as captain of the Norwegian national team at the World Cup 1994. After the failure in the preliminary round Bratseth ended his international career.
Personality
The sports press during his playing days saw as its strengths positional play, the heading ability, his footed shot technique and the two- warfare. The coach Otto Rehhagel respected him as a player because of his human strengths and praised him as a model for a fair sportsman.
Career
Club career
His first league match for Werder he denied on February 21, 1987 at 1 FC Nuremberg. It was the start of the season 1986/87; but the result of 1:5 against Bremen was then no serious indication for the further career of the Norwegian in the Bundesliga. Already in the second season, he was a defensive leader 1987/88 guarantee for the championship. Although it proved impossible to defend the league title, but still came Werder in the years 1989 and 1990 respectively in the DFB Cup final. Both finals but were lost to Borussia Dortmund and 1.FC Kaiserslautern. Only in the third direct contact took the team to Bratseth then the trophy in 1991 against 1 FC Cologne on the river Weser.
In the 1991/92 season came with the winning the European Cup Winners' Cup triumph even at European level. About the stations FC Bacau, Ferencvaros Budapest, Galatasaray, FC Bruges, the team of Werder Bremen reached the final on 6 May 1992 in what is now the Stadium of Light in Lisbon. Opponent was AS Monaco. Goals from Allofs and Wynton Rufer led by Rune Bratseth from the defensive team ultimately won deserved 2-0 gates.
This was followed in the 1992/93 season once again winning the German championship. The latest round in the Bundesliga brought then for the Norwegians the renewed Cup success in 1994 against Rot -Weiss Essen. 1994/95 he jumped only once for Werder in the breach.
National team career
In the National Team, he met not equivalent players at the peak of his playful career around 1990. Was it still failed against Yugoslavia and Scotland to the 1990 World Cup qualifying in the games in 1988 and 1989, it turned the next qualification for the 1994 World Cup a success for Norway; they were top of the group ahead of the Netherlands and to refuse to allow teams from England, Poland and Turkey's participation in the World Cup in the United States. In the World Cup itself after completion of the group, all four teams were level on points, but the Norwegians left out because of the least goals scored.
Achievements
- German Football Champion: 1988 and 1993
- DFB Cup winners: 1991 and 1994
- European Cup Winners' Cup: 1992
- Award as best Norwegian players 1954-2004
- Norwegian Footballer of the Year: 1991, 1992, 1994
- Bremer Sportsman of the Year: 1989