Knut Torbjørn Eggen
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Knut Torbjørn Eggen | ||
| Date of birth | 1 November 1960 | ||
| Place of birth | Orkdal, Norway | ||
| Date of death | 20 February 2012 (aged 51) | ||
| Place of death | Moss, Norway | ||
| Playing position | Defender | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –1978 | Orkdal IL | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1978–1991 | Rosenborg | 237 | (21) |
| National team | |||
| 1984 | Norway | 4 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1994–1996 | Aalesund | ||
| 1997–2001 | Moss | ||
| 2002–2006 | Fredrikstad | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Knut Torbjørn Eggen (1 November 1960 – 20 February 2012) was a Norwegian football coach and player, famous for his time in Rosenborg as a player, and Moss and Fredrikstad as a coach. He was the son of Norway's most successful football coach, Nils Arne Eggen.
Eggen was born on 1 November 1960 in Orkdal, to football player Nils Arne Eggen and Karin Pauline Eggen (1940–2011), as the first of three children. He began his youth career in the local club Orkdal IL, before moving on to Rosenborg in 1978, where his father was the head coach. He won the league three times and the Norwegian Cup two times with Rosenborg, where he spent his entire professional career until he retired in 1991, aged 31. He also competed for Norway at the 1984 Summer Olympics and was capped four times in total for Norway.
After Eggen retired as a player, he started to work as an assistant coach in Rosenborg from 1992 to 1993. He then moved to Aalesund in 1994, where he started his career as a head coach. After three years in Aalesund, he followed in his father's footsteps in Moss, where they won promotion to Tippeligaen in his first season. Moss stayed in Tippeligaen under Eggen's command, and after the 2001-season he became coach of another club from Østfold, the old giants, Fredrikstad FK.
The old giants, with nine league championships and ten cup championships, had been playing at the third tier for nine straight seasons when Eggen was hired in 2001. They won promotion to the First Division in 2002 and Eliteserien in 2003. In 2005, former national team coach Egil Olsen was hired as head coach for Fredrikstad, while Knut Torbjørn Eggen stepped down to work as an assistant coach. When Olsen retired from the position at the end of the year, due to health issues, Eggen was once again promoted to his previous job. In 2006, he led the team to eighth place in the Premier Division, their highest placing so far, and also led the team to gold in the Norwegian Championship Cup that year, in what would be his final match with the club. After this very successful season, Eggen quit his job in Fredrikstad in December 2006, after several major disagreements with new club director Morgan Andersen.
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