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Ole Gunnar Solskjær KSO (Norwegian

pronunciation: [ˈûːlǝ ˈɡʉ̂nːɑr ˈsûːlʂæːr] ( listen);
born 26 February 1973) is a Norwegian
professional football manager and former
player who played as a forward. He was most
recently the manager of Premier League club
Manchester United. As a player, Solskjær spent
the majority of his career with Manchester
United and also played 67 times for the Norway
national team.

Ole Gunnar Solskjær

Solskjær as Manchester United manager in 2021

Personal information

Full name Ole Gunnar Solskjær[1]

Date of birth 26 February 1973

(age 49)[2]

Place of birth Kristiansund, Møre og

Romsdal, Norway

Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[2]

Position(s) Forward

Youth career

1980–1990 Clausenengen

Senior career*

Years Team Apps (Gls)

1990–1995 Clausenengen 109 (115)

1995–1996 Molde 42 (31)

1996–2007 Manchester United 235 (91)

Total 386 (237)

National team

1994–1995 Norway U21 19 (13)

1995–2007 Norway 67 (23)

Teams managed

2008–2011 Manchester United (reserves)

2011–2014 Molde

2014 Cardiff City

2015–2018 Molde

2018–2021 Manchester United

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for

the domestic league only

Solskjær began his career in his native Norway

with Clausenengen, for whom he scored 115
goals in 109 league appearances over five
seasons, helping them earn promotion to the
Norwegian Second Division in 1993, before
moving to Molde, newly promoted to the
Tippeligaen, for the 1995 season. His goals
helped Molde to a second-place finish and
qualification for the UEFA Cup. He joined
Manchester United in July 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 knack of coming off the substitute bench to
score late goals. In extra time at the end of the
1999 UEFA Champions League Final, he scored
the winning last-minute goal against Bayern
Munich, with Manchester United having trailed
1–0 as the game passed 90 minutes, and
winning the treble for United. He remained a
regular player for the side until a serious knee
injury sustained in 2003 permanently plagued
his playing career.[3][4] Failing to recover from
the injury, Solskjær announced his retirement
from football in 2007.[5]

Solskjær 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
Tippeligaen titles in his first two seasons with
the club. He secured a third title when his team
won the 2013 Norwegian Football Cup Final. In
2014, he served as manager of Cardiff City,
during which the club was relegated from the
Premier League. In late 2018, Manchester
United appointed Solskjær as caretaker
manager, taking over from José Mourinho for
the rest of the 2018–19 season.[6] On 28
March 2019, having won 14 of his 19 matches
in charge, Solskjær signed a three-year
contract to take over as Manchester United
manager on a permanent basis.[7] He left the
role by mutual consent in November 2021
following a poor string of performances during
the 2021–22 season.

Early life

Club career

International career

Managerial career

Personal life

Career statistics

Managerial statistics

Honours

References

External links

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