Svein Andreassen
Appearance
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Svein Are Andreassen[1] | ||
Date of birth | 3 July 1968 | ||
Place of birth | Stokmarknes, Norway | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1990–1995 | Tromsø | 58 | (8) |
1997 | Sogndal | 20 | (4) |
1998–1999 | Lillestrøm | 16 | (4) |
1998–1999 | → Portsmouth (loan) | 2 | (0) |
1999 | Harstad | 1 | (0) |
2014 | Medkila 2 | 3 | (1) |
Total | 100 | (17) | |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Svein Are Andreassen (born 3 July 1968) is a Norwegian former footballer who played as a forward.
Career
He was born in Stokmarknes, lived in Tromsø from age one to seven before the family settled in Harstad. He played youth football for Kilkameratene and Harstad IL, and made his first-team debut for Harstad around 1986. From 1990 to 1995 he played for Tromsø IL.[2]
He never fully broke into the first team, and resumed his career at Sogndal in 1996–1997 and Lillestrøm in 1998. For the remained of the 1998–99 season he played for Portsmouth in England. After the season concluded he gave up on professional football, following multiple injuries and twenty-two surgeries.[2] He did however feature for Harstad IL.[3]
References
- ^ "Svein Andreassen". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
- ^ a b Salomonsen, Per; Anthonsen, Hugo (8 April 2010). "Svein Are Andreassen" (in Norwegian). Tromsø IL. Retrieved 20 February 2019.
- ^ Fotball.no
Categories:
- 1968 births
- Living people
- People from Harstad
- Norwegian men's footballers
- Harstad IL players
- Tromsø IL players
- Sogndal Fotball players
- Lillestrøm SK players
- Eliteserien players
- Norwegian First Division players
- Portsmouth F.C. players
- Norwegian expatriate men's footballers
- Norwegian expatriate sportspeople in England
- Expatriate men's footballers in England
- Norwegian expatriates in England
- Men's association football forwards
- Footballers from Troms og Finnmark
- Norwegian football forward stubs