Ingvild Stensland

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Ingvild Stensland
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Stensland in 2012
Personal information
Full name Ingvild Stensland
Date of birth (1981-08-03) 3 August 1981 (age 43)
Place of birth Farsund, Norway
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
1987–1998 Lyngdal IL
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1998–1999 Donn
2000–2002 Athene Moss
2002–2007 Kolbotn 120 (9)
2007–2009 Göteborg 38 (4)
2009–2011 Lyon 20 (3)
2011 Göteborg 6 (0)
2012–2016 Stabæk 13 (8)
International career‡
2003–2016 Norway 144 (10)
Medal record
Women's football
Representing Flag of Norway.svg  Norway
UEFA Women's Championship
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg England 2005 Team
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg Sweden 2013 Team
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 7 November 2012
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 14:16, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

Ingvild Stensland (born 3 August 1981) is a former Norwegian footballer who, from August 2022, is one of the assistance coaches on Norway women's national team. [1]

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As a player she last played for Stabæk FK in the Toppserien. She played as a midfielder and was a member of, and for several years also the captain of, the Norway women's national team, making her debut in 2003. [2] She has also played in the French Division 1 and the Swedish Damallsvenskan for Lyon and Göteborg FC.

Playing career

Stensland was born in Farsund in the south of Norway and grew up at nearby Lyngdal showing her talent for football at an early age. She grew up in a footballing family. Her father was a coach, while her older sisters played at Lyngdal IL. As a youth, Stensland trained with her male counterparts at Lyngdal until she reached her teens. She had a successful career with Lyngdal before starring for clubs such as FK Donn, Athene Moss, and Kolbotn in her home country Norway, Kopparbergs/Göteborg FC in Sweden, and Lyon in France. In 2005, Stensland was named the Toppserien Player of the Year. She has also been nominated for the FIFA Women's World Player of the Year award on four occasions.

As a national team player, Stensland played in the 2005 European Championships guiding her team to a second-place finish after falling 3–1 to the Germans in the final. Since making her debut in 2003, Stensland has become a regular in the team appearing at the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup, the 2008 Summer Olympics, UEFA Women's Euro 2009 and the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup.

At the beginning of 2009, Ingvild Stensland signed a contract with top French club, Olympique Lyonnaise. At about the same time she took over as captain of the national team, an appointment that was confirmed by the new chief trainer, Eli Landsem, at the end of 2009. [3] In 2011, she returned to Göteborg, with whom she won the Svenska Cupen. [4] After the end of the season she returned to Norway to play for Stabæk FK. [5]

Coaching career

In January 2018, Stensland got hired as player developer in Stabæk. [6] In 2022, she continued her career as coach of the Norway women under-23 national team. [7] However, in August 2022, she became one of the assistance coaches for the Norway national team, together with Monica Knudsen, with Hege Riise as the head coach. [1]

Honours

Individual

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References

  1. 1 2 Fotballforbund, Norges. "Hege Riise ny landslagssjef". fotball.no - Norges Fotballforbund (in Norwegian). Retrieved 26 August 2022.
  2. ↑ "Official Norway Football Association player profile". Archived from the original on 9 May 2012. Retrieved 9 May 2012.
  3. ↑ Stensland the captain
  4. ↑ Line-ups of the final in Soccerway
  5. ↑ More shock departures from Kopparbergs/Göteborg, Stensland and Sembrant leave Archived 6 September 2018 at the Wayback Machine W Soccer News
  6. ↑ NTB, (NTB) (9 January 2018). "(+) Ingvild Stensland ny toppspillerutvikler for Stabæks kvinner". rbnett.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 26 August 2022.
  7. ↑ Fotballforbund, Norges. "Stensland blir U23-landslagstrener". fotball.no - Norges Fotballforbund (in Norwegian). Retrieved 26 August 2022.
  8. ↑ Jeg er kjempestolt
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