- Ståle Solbakken
Infobox Football biography
playername = Ståle Solbakken
1996: Solbakken at Lillestrøm.
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1968|2|27
cityofbirth =Kongsvinger
countryofbirth =Norway
position = Midfielder (retired)
currentclub =F.C. Copenhagen (manager)
contractend = 30 June 2011 [cite web |url=http://www.sjat.com/html/fck_kontrakter.htm |title=Kontraktlængder i FCK |publisher=SJAT.COM |last=Poulsen |first=Anders |accessdate=2008-01-31 |language=Danish ]
years = 0000-1989
1989-1994
1994-1997
1997-1998
1998-2000
2000-2001
clubs =Grue I.L.
Ham-KamLillestrøm S.K. Wimbledon F.C.
AaBF.C. Copenhagen
caps(goals) =
100 (35)
099 (34)
006 0(1)
081 (13)
014 0(4)
nationalyears = 1994-2000
nationalteam = Norway
nationalcaps(goals) = 058 0(9)
manageryears = 2002-2005
2006-present
managerclubs = Ham-KamF.C. Copenhagen Ståle Solbakken (born
February 27 ,1968 ) is a Norwegian football coach and a former player, who is the manager of Danish clubF.C. Copenhagen . He played 58 matches and scored nine goals for the Norwegian national team during the end of the 1990s, and represented Norway at the 1998 World Cup and 2000 European Championship tournaments.Biography
He started his career in Norway, playing for lower league team
Grue I.L. , where he stayed for five years. In 1989, he went toHamarkameratene in the secondary Norwegian 1st Division, with whom he won promotion for the top-flightTippeligaen championship in 1991. He went on to Tippeligaen rivalsLillestrøm S.K. in 1994, and was subsequently called up for the Norwegian national team.He had a short stay abroad at English club
Wimbledon F.C. in 1997. In his six league games for Wimbledon, Solbakken scored one goal and was twice named "man of the match ", but he was banned from club training by managerJoe Kinnear shortly thereafter.He was sold to Danish side Aalborg BK the same year. At Aalborg, he became the undisputed team leader. He guided the club to the 1999
Danish Superliga championship, as well as the final of the 1999Danish Cup . He was awarded as player of the year in Danish football in 2000. Solbakken let it be known that he wanted a move to a bigger league, but he was eventually sold to Danish league rivals F.C. Copenhagen. His career ended brutally there (see below).The next year, Solbakken started his career as a coach at the Norwegian club
Hamarkameratene in Norwegian secondaryAdeccoligaen division. He had great success at Hamarkameratene, as the club won the league and was promoted the top-flightTippeligaen . The next season, Solbakken managed Hamarkameratene to a fifth place in theTippeligaen 2004 season. In late 2005, Solbakken was named as new manager of his former clubF.C. Copenhagen (FCK). He managed FCK through to the group stage of theUEFA Champions League , after beatingAjax Amsterdam in the final qualifying round on August 23, 2006.Heart attack
During training on
March 13 2001 Solbakken had a heart attack. He was attended to rapidly by the club doctor Frank Odgaard who upon noticing something was very wrong tried to find his pulse and noticed his heart had stopped beating. He asked a player to call an ambulance and to tell them it was critical, whilst he continued to administer cardiac massage. Upon the ambulance arrival, he was pronouncedclinically dead at the scene.Amazingly on the way to the hospital he was revived nearly twelve minutes later in the ambulance. He survived the episode and now has a pacemaker fitted. The heart attack was the result of a previously undetected heart defect.
Honours
;Player
*Danish Superliga : 1999 and 2001
*Kniksen award as midfielder of the year in 1995;Manager
*Danish Superliga : 2006 and 2007
*Royal League : 2006
*Danish Superliga Manager of the Year: 2007
*Kniksen award as coach of the year in 2004References
External links
*da icon [http://www.fck.dk/truppen/spillerprofil/?playerid=130 FC København profile]
**da icon [http://www.fck.dk/saesonen/statistik/spillerstatistik/?search=1&play_playerid_fk=150 FC København player statistics]
*da icon [http://www.aabsport.dk/96CF7553-3EFB-42E0-9F3E-B9DE67F765D4.W5Doc?id=2143be3a-3b21-437c-b311-dc11b397295a AaB profile]
*no icon [http://www.hamkam.no/presentation/spiller.asp?spiller_id=119&showall=true Ham-Kam profile]Navboxes
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NAME= Solbakken, Ståle
ALTERNATIVE NAMES= Solbakken, Ståle
SHORT DESCRIPTION= footballer
DATE OF BIRTH= 1968-2-27
PLACE OF BIRTH=Kongsvinger ,Norway
DATE OF DEATH=
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