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Frode Grodås

Frode Grodås
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Frode Grodås in 2008 as Lillestrøm coach
Personal information
Full name Frode Grodås
Date of birth (1964-10-24) 24 October 1964 (age 52)
Place of birth Hornindal, Norway
Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Playing position Goalkeeper
Youth career
0000–1982 Hornindal
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1982–1986 Sogndal (0)
1987–1996 Lillestrøm 182 (1)
1996–1998 Chelsea 21 (0)
1998 Tottenham Hotspur 0 (0)
1998–2002 Schalke 04 3 (0)
1999 Racing Santander (loan) 6 (0)
2002–2003 Hønefoss 49 (0)
2007 Lillestrøm 0 (0)
National team
1981 Norway U-16 2 (0)
1982 Norway U-19 3 (0)
1989 Norway U-21 5 (0)
1991–2002 Norway 50 (0)
Teams managed
2006 HamKam
2007–2010 Lillestrøm (goalkeeping coach)
2010– Norway (goalkeeping coach)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Frode Grodås (born 24 October 1964) is a Norwegian football coach and former national team goalkeeper originally from Hornindal in Sogn og Fjordane. Capped 50 times for his country, he participated at the 1998 FIFA World Cup as well as being an unused substitute at the 1994 FIFA World Cup.

During his career he played for several Norwegian clubs. After his ten-year spell at Lillestrøm he spent six years abroad, in England, Germany and Spain. He won the English FA Cup in 1997 with Chelsea, keeping a clean sheet in a 2–0 win in the final. He rounded off his career with Norwegian Division One team Hønefoss.

Grodås was last capped in 2002, aged 37 years and 318 days, and is the fourth oldest player at the Norwegian national team.

He has education from the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences. After retiring as a player, Grodås received the highest level of football coach education in Norway and took over HamKam from 1 December 2005. However, Grodås couldn't deliver the results, and Ham-Kam was relegated. Grodås was fired on 7 November 2006.

In December 2006, Grodås signed a three-year contract with Lillestrøm as a goalkeeper-coach. Grodås is then back in what he regards as his home club. He has also acted as the third-choice goalkeeper for the club. In June 2007 Lillestrøm's first-choice goalkeeper Heinz Müller received a two match suspension after hitting Geir Ludvig Fevang with his left knee. As a result of this, Grodås sat on the substitute bench as backup goalie during the Tippeliga-match against Sandefjord later that month. He returned to the bench in August 2007 after an injury to Müller.


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