Ole Gunnar Solskjær
Solskjær as manager of Molde in 2011
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Ole Gunnar Solskjær | ||
| Date of birth | 26 February 1973 | ||
| Place of birth | Kristiansund, Norway | ||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Molde (manager) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1989–1990 | Clausenengen | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1990–1995 | Clausenengen | 109 | (115) |
| 1995–1996 | Molde | 38 | (31) |
| 1996–2007 | Manchester United | 235 | (91) |
| Total | 381 | (237) | |
| National team | |||
| 1995–2007 | Norway | 67 | (23) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2008–2011 | Manchester United Reserves | ||
| 2011–2014 | Molde | ||
| 2014 | Cardiff City | ||
| 2014– | Clausenengen U19 | ||
| 2015– | Molde | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Ole Gunnar Solskjær (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈuːlə ˈɡʉnɑr ˈsuːlˈʂær]; born 26 February 1973) is a Norwegian football manager and former player. As a player, he spent most of his career playing as a forward for Manchester United. He is the manager of Molde FK.
Before his arrival in England, Solskjær played for Norwegian clubs Clausenengen and Molde. He joined Manchester United in 1996 for a transfer fee of £1.5 million. Nicknamed "The Baby-faced Assassin", he played 366 times for United, and scored 126 goals during a successful period for the club. He was regarded as a "super sub" for his trait of coming off the substitute bench to score late goals. Solskjær's defining moment in football came in injury time of the 1999 UEFA Champions League Final, where he scored the winning last-minute goal against Bayern Munich, completing a remarkable comeback and winning The Treble for United. Before the century was up, a biography was written on him.
In 2007, Solskjær announced his retirement from football after failing to recover from a serious knee injury. However, he remained at Manchester United in a coaching role as well as in an ambassadorial capacity. In 2008, Solskjær became the club's reserve team manager. He returned to his native country in 2011 to manage his former club, Molde, whom he led to their two first ever Norwegian league titles in his first two seasons with the club. He secured a third title in as many seasons, when his team won the 2013 Norwegian Football Cup Final. In 2014 he served as manager of Cardiff City, during which the club were relegated from the Premier League.
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