Petter Rudi

Petter Rudi

Personal information
Full name	Petter Normann Rudi
Date of birth	September 17, 1973 (1973-09-17)
Place of birth	Molde, Norway
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1991–1997	Molde FK	116	(7)
1996	→K.A.A. Gent (loan)	6	(0)
1997	→A.C. Perugia (loan)	11	(1)
1997–2000	Sheffield Wednesday	76	(8)
2000–2001	Molde FK	15	(2)
2001–2002	KSC Lokeren	13	(2)
2002–2003	Germinal Beerschot	13	(0)
2003–2004	Austria Wien	4	(0)
2004–2006	Molde FK	71	(8)
2006–2007	K.A.A. Gent	12	(3)
National team
1995-2006	Norway	46	(3)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Petter Normann Rudi (born 17 September 1973) is a retired Norwegian footballer. He finished his career at Belgian club K.A.A. Gent in 2007 after playing professionally in several countries in Europe during his career.

Career

As midfielder, Rudi has played with several European clubs. These are K.A.A. Gent, A.C. Perugia, Sheffield Wednesday, Lokeren, Germinal Beerschot, Austria Wien and Molde FK.

Petter Rudi was signed by David Pleat in October 1997 from Molde FK and he made his debut against Spurs; his initial style of play made him initially popular with the Wednesday fans and he became a regular starter under Ron Atkinson later that season after Pleat was sacked, he failed to score in his first season however he did score the 5-3 penalty shoot-out victory against Watford in the 3rd round of the FA Cup.^{[citation needed]}

Rudi made 79 and 6 sub appearances for the owls scoring 8 goals.

During has career, Rudi has been capped 46 times for the Norway national football team scoring three goals.

Honour

Winner:

Molde

• Norwegian Football Cup: 1994, 2005

Runner-up:

Molde

• Norwegian Premier League: 1995

Austria Wien

• Austrian Football Bundesliga: 2003–04