Gøril Kringen
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| Full name | Gøril Kringen | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 28 January 1972 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Trondheim, Norway[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)[2] | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Defender | ||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1990–2005 |
Trondheims-Ørn | ||||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 1995–2001 | Norway | 72 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2006–2010 |
Trondheims-Ørn | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 7 October 2014 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 7 October 2014 | |||||||||||||||||
Gøril Kringen (born 28 January 1972) is a
Trondheims-Ørn
, and holds the record for total matches played for the club (515).
Playing career
Playing for
SK Trondheims-Ørn, Kringen won the Norwegian league seven times between 1994 and 2003. She also won the Norwegian Women's Cup eight times with Trondheims-Ørn.[3]
Kringen made her senior national team debut in July 1995—a 2–0 win over Australia—but she was not selected for Norway's victorious 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup squad. She was on the Norwegian team that hosted UEFA Women's Euro 1997 and then finished fourth at the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup in the United States.[4]
She collected a total of 72
caps for Norway and won gold at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.[5] She was Norway's captain in their UEFA Women's Euro 2001 campaign,[6] which ended with a 1–0 defeat by hosts Germany
in the semi-final.
Coaching career
Kringen coached Trondheims-Ørn (2006–2010) and has also coached Norway's Under-23 team. In 2012 Kringen served as an assistant coach at Ranheim Fotball in the Norwegian [men's] First Division. She was the first woman to coach a team in the top two levels of the Norwegian football league system.[7]
In May 2013 Kringen was appointed the
Football Association of Norway's (NFF) head of women's football.[8]
References
- ^ "Gøril Kringen". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
- ^ "Kringen Goril". FIFA. Archived from the original on 30 October 2000. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
- Store norske leksikon(in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
- ^ "Norges VM-tropp" (in Norwegian). Verdens Gang. 20 June 1999. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
- ^ "2000 Summer Olympics – Melbourne, Australia – Soccer" Archived 11 August 2012 at the Wayback Machine (Retrieved on 16 May 2008)
- ^ Bohlin, Gøran (28 June 2001). "Forberedt på grisespill" (in Norwegian). Verdens Gang. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
- ^ Heilmann, Håkon Rysst; Øfsti, Anders Werner (10 January 2012). "Her blir Gøril Kringen historisk" (in Norwegian). NRK. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
- Football Association of Norway. Archived from the originalon 11 October 2014. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
External links
- Goeril Kringen – FIFA competition record (archived)
- Norwegian national team profile (in Norwegian)
- Trondheims-Ørn club profile (in Norwegian)
- Gøril Kringen at FIFA (archived)
- Gøril Kringen at the Norway Football Association (in Norwegian)
- Gøril Kringen at FBref.com
- Gøril Kringen at Soccerdonna (in German)
- Gøril Kringen at Olympedia
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