Oddvar Richardsen
Personal information
Full name Oddvar Kåre Richardsen
Date of birth (1937-06-05)5 June 1937
Place of birth Brønnøysund, Norway[1]
Date of death 18 July 1997(1997-07-18) (aged 60)
Position(s) forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Tjalg
Brønnøysund
1957–1966 Lillestrøm
1967–1971 Ull/Kisa
International career
1958 Norway u-21 1 (0)
1960–1963 Norway B 5 (0)
1961–1963 Norway 4 (0)
Managerial career
Ull/Kisa (player-coach)
1972 Lillestrøm
1973 Raumnes og Årnes
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Oddvar Richardsen (5 June 1937 – 18 July 1997) was a Norwegian football striker and later manager.

He started his career in local clubs Tjalg and Brønnøysund, and the first from Brønnøysund to become Norwegian league champion.[2] He played for Lillestrøm from 1957, becoming league champion in 1959. He represented Norway as an under-21, B and senior international.[3][4] From 1967 to 1971 he played for Ull/Kisa.[5][6]

After a time as player-coach of Ull/Kisa, in 1972 he coached Lillestrøm, and ahead of the 1973 season he joined Raumnes og Årnes IL.[7][1]

His son Rune Richardsen was also capped for Norway. They were the eighth father-son combination to be capped.[8]

References

  1. 1 2 Oddvar Richardsen at WorldFootball.net
  2. Horn, Jøran (27 November 2020). "Oddvar var vår første mester". Brønnøysunds Avis (in Norwegian). p. 17.
  3. Oddvar Richardsen at National-Football-Teams.com
  4. Oddvar Richardsen at the Norwegian Football Federation (in Norwegian)
  5. "De 60 største fra Nord-Norge". VG (in Norwegian). 28 September 2019. pp. 8–11.
  6. "Romerikes 100 største fotballprofiler gjennom tidene". Romerikes Blad (in Norwegian). 23 March 2016. pp. 23–27.
  7. "Oddvar Richardsen ny R&Å-trener". Raumnes (in Norwegian). 18 October 1972. p. 8.
  8. Bratland, Tore Ulrik (3 September 2019). "Familiedrømmen". Dagbladet (in Norwegian). pp. 20–21.
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