Solveig Gulbrandsen
Gulbrandsen 7 October 2007
Solveig Gulbrandsen ( born January 12, 1981 in Oslo) is a Norwegian football player. With a total of 172 international matches they have played together with Bente Nordby is the second most caps for Norway, scoring a total of 50 goals, making it the fifth-best scorer Norwegian.
Career
The midfielder played from 1998 to 2008 for Kolbotn IL and the Norwegian national team. Then she played from 2009 to 2010 for Stabæk Fotball and in between two games for FC Gold Pride in the WPS. Since 2012 she plays for Vålerenga Oslo.
It is one of the best players in their country. On June 17, 1998, she first played for the Norwegian selection. Opponent was at that time the German national team. Two years later she won the gold medal at the Olympic Games in Sydney. In 2008 she took part in the Olympic Games in Beijing, left there but in the quarter- finals.
Gulbrandsen took the Norwegian women's national team at the European Championships in Germany in 2001, England in 2005 and Finland in 2009 and came to a total of 14 missions. They reached the semi-finals with their team twice and once the final, in which they failed each of the German team.
1999, 2003 and 2007 she took part in the Norway Cup tournaments in the U.S. and China and came to a total of 14 missions. She is the youngest Norwegian player who scored a goal in a World Cup. At 18 years and 162 days, it achieved in 1999 in a 7-1 win against Canada as, substitute in the 87th minute of the 7-1 draw.
At the 2011 World Championships, in Norway for the first time was eliminated in the group stage, they did not participate due to her second pregnancy, after she had a decisive impact on the qualification and still scored in the second playoff game against Ukraine 2-0.
After two years break, she came on 15 and 19 September 2012 in the European Championship qualifiers against Belgium and Iceland back into use.
In 2013 she took part in the finals of the European Football Championship Women for the fourth time. Despite the poor results of the Norwegian team in the preparation, therefore, was not one of the favorites, she reached with her team the final against Germany, but lost it 0-1. In the 61st minute, the German goalkeeper Nadine Angerer stopped a shot of her penalty, as well as before a shot by Trine Rønning penalty. In the group phase, the Norwegian team, however, won 1-0 against Germany and Germany in order to teach the first defeat in a European Championship finals after 20 years.
On 26 October 2013, it scored in the World Cup qualifier against Albania her 50th international goal, making it the fifth leading scorer in Norway.
Achievements
- Olympic Champion 2000
- Norwegian champion in 2002, 2005, 2006
- Scorer of Toppserien 2003
- Vice European Champion 2005, 2013
Awards
- 2003: elected to the All- Star Team of the World Cup
- 2013: elected to the All- Star team the EM
Private
On 8 June 2006 Solveig Gulbrandsen earned her first child, a boy named Theodore. Gulbrandsen is the assistant coach of Kolbotn IL, Espen Andreassen, married. On June 19, 2011 their daughter Lilly was born.