Nils Solstad (born 27 July 1963) is a retired
Norwegian football defender.
Hailing from Mortensnes in
Tromsø, Solstad played youth football for
IF Fløya
Idrettsforeningen Fløya is a Norwegian football club from the city of Tromsø. The club was founded on 22 June 1922 and named after the Fløya mountain which overlooks Tromsø centre.
The women's team has got two third-place finishes in Toppse ...
and got one senior match before moving to
Tromsø IL in 1981. He made his debut in 1982 and became a stalwart until his retirement after the 1993 season. He helped win the
1986 Norwegian Football Cup
The 1986 Norwegian Football Cup was the 81st edition of the Norwegian annual knockout football tournament. The Cup was won by Tromsø after they beat Lillestrøm in the cup final with the score 4–1. This was Tromsø's first Norwegian Cup title.
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.
In 1997 he was player-manager of
Porsanger IL
Porsanger Idrettslag is a Norwegian multi-sports club from Lakselv, Finnmark. It has sections for association football, team handball, track and field, Nordic skiing, floorball and table tennis.
The club was founded in 2005 as a merger of the mu ...
.
[ He later coached Tromsø IL's junior team and ]IF Skarp
Idrettsforeningen Skarp is a Norwegian association football club from Tromsø, which currently plays in the Third Division, the fourth tier of Norwegian football. The club was founded 30 June 1919 and its colors are black and white. It is the thi ...
in two terms, first in the latter half of 2000 together with , then in 2002 until he resigned in August that year.[
]
References
1963 births
Living people
Footballers from Tromsø
Norwegian men's footballers
Tromsø IL players
Norwegian First Division players
Eliteserien players
Men's association football defenders
Norwegian football managers
IF Skarp managers
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