Solveig Ingersdatter Gulbrandsen (born 12 January 1981) is a Norwegian

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currently playing for

Kolbotn Kolbotn is an urban area in Norway's Nordre Follo county. Kolbotn is in the centre of the traditional district, Oppegård. The population is about 6,000. Kolbotn has several elementary schools, four middle schools and a high school. Town is loca ...

of the

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. At club level she has previously represented

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Vålerenga Fotball Damer Vålerenga Fotball Damer is the women's association football, women's football branch of Vålerenga Fotball. Based in Oslo, the team plays in Norway's top league, Toppserien. The team first won promotion to Toppserien in 2011 Norwegian First ...

and Stabæk. With the Norwegian national team Gulbrandsen accrued 183

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, scored 55 goals and won the

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Club career

Hailing from the

Oppegård Oppegård is an area in Nordre Follo, Viken, Norway. Oppegård was a municipality in the former county Akershus. It is part of the traditional region of Follo. The administrative centre of the municipality was the village of Kolbotn. The mu ...

area to the South-East of

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, Gulbrandsen started her career for

. Her team became the Norwegian Cup holders after winning the Cup Final in November 2007. In December 2008 Gulbrandsen announced her transfer to

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, formed from the bankrupt

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and other players. On 10 December 2009

in Santa Clara, California, playing in the WPS league, announced that Gulbrandsen had signed a contract to play and to take part in coaching and education, starting in March 2010. However, on 7 July 2010, FC Gold Pride announced that Gulbrandsen would be returning to Norway and Stabæk FK, effective after the club's 17 July match against Philadelphia. Gulbrandsen cited a desire to begin a transition to a post-soccer career in Norway for her decision. After a successful autumn season with Stabæk in 2010 she announced her retirement as a football player and joined the Oslo club

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as an assistant trainer. She also announced that she was expecting her second child. A highlight video of Gulbrandsen's last league match, in which she assisted two goals and Stabæk won the

league title, can be seen on line from the Norwegian channel TV 2. She retired from her club side

after the 2010 season. In the latter half of the 2011 season Gulbrandsen played some matches as a substitute for the first-division club Vålerenga, and was later hired as the team's assistant player coach. During 2012 and 2013 she played regularly for Vålerenga, who had been

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into the Toppserien. After another brief period of retirement, 33-year-old Gulbrandsen rejoined Stabæk as a player in September 2014. She had been working as a television

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for TV 2 but agreed to help out her former team who had an injury crisis.

International career

In 1998 Gulbrandsen made her debut for the Norwegian National Team and made regular appearances until the end of 2010. She won a gold medal with the Norwegian national team in the

. In 2005 Norway reached the Final of the

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by beating Sweden 3–2, with Gulbrandsen scoring two goals and earning a yellow card for hoisting her shirt over her head after scoring the first goal. Gulbrandsen took part in the

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tournament in China, her third such tournament, when Norway achieved fourth place behind Germany, Brazil and the USA. On 9 June 2008 she was named to the Norwegian roster for the

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that was held in Beijing, China. Norway advanced to the quarter-finals where they lost to Brazil. Gulbrandsen was hit in a wrist early in the match but continued playing and discovered only afterwards that a bone had been broken. Gulbrandsen was selected for Norway's team in the

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played in Finland. The team survived the group stage to beat Sweden 3–1 in the quarter-final, losing to Germany 3–1 in the semifinal. At the end of the tournament she announced it would be her last championship but she would continue playing to the end of the season at least. In October 2009 she announced that she had decided with her family to continue playing for another season. Veteran national

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selected Gulbrandsen in Norway's squad for

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in Sweden. In the

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, she had a second half

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saved by Germany's goalkeeper

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's goal gave the Germans their sixth successive title.

International goals

Personal life

Gulbrandsen is the daughter of former Norway international footballer

Terje Gulbrandsen Svein Terje Gulbrandsen (29 November 1944 – 25 September 2015) was a Norwegian footballer who played as a midfielder. At club level he won the Norwegian League once and the Cup twice with Skeid. He represented the Norway national football team ...

and Inger Elise Johansen, a former Norwegian champion in Rhythmic Gymnastics. She is married to Espen Andreassen, a former football trainer in Kolbotn women's football club. On 8 June 2006 Solveig Gulbrandsen gave birth to her first child, a son named Theodor. Her second child was born on 19 June 2011, a daughter named Lilly. She is unrelated to the other footballer

Ragnhild Gulbrandsen Ragnhild Øren Gulbrandsen (born 22 February 1977) is a Norwegian journalist and former football striker from the city of Trondheim who retired from football at the end of 2007. Most of her playing career was spent with Trondheims-Ørn (Trond ...

Honours

Club

: Winner

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: Winner 2007

Country

;

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: Fourth place *

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: Quarter-final *

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: Fourth place *

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: Round of 16 * 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney: Gold * 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing: Quarter-final *

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: Semi-finals *

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: Runners-up *

: Semi-finals *

: Runners-up

Individual

* UEFA Women's Championship All-Star Team:

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References

External links

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Stabæk Club Profile
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gulbrandsen, Solveig 1981 births Living people Norwegian women's footballers Norway women's international footballers Olympic footballers of Norway Footballers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Norway Footballers at the 2008 Summer Olympics FIFA Century Club Olympic medalists in football Stabæk Fotball Kvinner players Kolbotn Fotball players Vålerenga Fotball Damer players FC Gold Pride players Women's Professional Soccer players Expatriate women's soccer players in the United States 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup players 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup players 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup players 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup players Norwegian expatriate women's footballers Norwegian expatriate sportspeople in the United States Footballers from Oslo Toppserien players Women's association football midfielders Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics