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Marit Fiane Grødum
Personal information
Full name Marit Helene Fiane Grødum
Birth name Marit Helene Fiane Christensen
Date of birth (1980-12-11) 11 December 1980 (age 43)
Place of birth Vestby, Norway
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Central Back
Team information
Current team
 Amazon Grimstad
Number 23
Youth career
Halsen IF
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2000–2002 Larvik 0 (0)
2003 Asker 17 (3)
2004–2010 Røa 111 (22)
2011– Amazon Grimstad 32 (5)
International career‡
2003– Norway 86 (12)
Medal record
Women's football
Representing  Norway
UEFA Women's Championship
Silver medal – second place 2005 England Team
Silver medal – second place 2013 Sweden Team
*Club domestic league appearances and goals
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 14:16, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

Marit Helene Fiane Grødum (née Christensen; born 11 December 1980) is a Norwegian former football central back. Christensen married Øystein Grødum on 31 August 2013 and changed her name to Marit Helene Fiane Grødum. Her last club was Amazon Grimstad of Norway's Toppserien league. She was member of the Norway women's national football team, having made her debut on 16 March 2003, in a match against the United States.[1]

Club career

She started her career in Halsen IF, a local club in Larvik. As the women's teams of Halsen and rival club Nanset IF joined into one club, FK Larvik, Grødum became one of the key players of the club. Both she and the club made a Toppserien debut in 2000. Grødum scored one goal, but could not help the club avoid relegation. In 2002, Larvik and Grødum returned to Toppserien. Even though Larvik survived their second encounter with Toppserien, Grødum changed team to Asker. The stay in Asker was short, as only one year later Grødum continued her way east and ended up in Røa. Grødum proved to be vital to the club. In her first season in Røa, her team won the double, both the league and the cup. Over the next years, Røa with Grødum won the league and the cup twice each.

International career

Grødum also became an important part of the national team. When she quit the national team in October 2008, Grødum had made 62 appearances, scoring seven goals. She scored her first goal for Norway on 24 July 2004 in a match against Sweden.[2]

She was part of the squad for the 2005 European Championships, in which Norway claimed silver, falling to Germany 3–1 in the championship match. She was also part of the team for the 2003 Women's World Cup, 2007 Women's World Cup and the 2008 Summer Olympics held in Beijing, China.

On 21 October 2008 Grødum and four other Røa players – Marie Knutsen, Guro Knutsen, Lene Mykjåland and Siri Nordby – made headlines when they announced in a press release that they would not be returning to the national team due to issues the five had with the national team leadership.[3] While the press statement never mentioned coach Bjarne Berntsen's name, it was assumed that he was instrumental in their decision to quit the team. The retirement, interpreted by newspapers as a boycott, created widespread media attention.

Somewhat involuntarily, Grødum became the spokesperson for the five players, especially in a TV-debate with the Norwegian Football Association and coach Bjarne Berntsen. As of January 2009, the issue seemed far from soluble, but with Bjarne Berntsen's retirement and the arrival of a new chief trainer for the national team, Eli Landsem, Grødum was recalled to the side in December 2009 for training matches against China and England in La Manga Club, Spain in January 2010.

Veteran national coach Even Pellerud selected Grødum in Norway's squad for UEFA Women's Euro 2013 in Sweden.[4] She started the final at Friends Arena, where Anja Mittag's goal gave the Germans their sixth successive European title.[5]

Personal

Grødum is a qualified lawyer and works as a legal adviser to NISO, the Norske Idrettsutøveres Sentralorganisasjon. Norwegian World Cup speed-skater winner Øystein Grødum and Marit became a couple the summer of 2006.[6] Their first child was born in autumn, 2010.[7]

Career statistics

Statistics accurate as of match played 8 June 2013

Club Season Division League Cup Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
2003 Asker Toppserien 17 3 2 0 19 3
2004 Røa 17 6 3 1 20 7
2005 17 1 4 0 21 1
2006 15 6 5 4 20 10
2007 22 3 3 2 25 5
2008 19 4 7 1 26 5
2009 20 2 0 0 20 2
2010 1 0 2 0 3 0
2011 Amazon Grimstad 7 0 0 0 7 0
2012 15 3 3 0 18 3
2013 10 2 0 0 10 2
Career Total 160 30 29 7 189 38

Honors

Røa

Country

Norway

Individual

References

  1. ^ Norwegian Football Association player profile
  2. ^ NFF player profile page
  3. ^ Fem Røa-spillere takker nei til landslaget
  4. ^ Aarre, Eivind (13 June 2013). "Pellerud 'excited' by Norway squad". uefa.com. UEFA. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
  5. ^ Burke, Chris (28 July 2013). "Angerer the hero as Germany make it six in a row". uefa.com. UEFA. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
  6. ^ Lykke til, kjære Archived 2011-07-20 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ http://www.agderposten.no/sport/har-egentlig-lagt-opp-1.6812419 [dead link‍]


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