Trond Fredriksen (born 21 May 1977) is a football coach and former
Norwegian
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footballer. He is a former
football midfielder
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Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
and former manager for
Aalesunds FK
Aalesunds Fotballklubb, commonly known as Aalesund or AaFK, is a Norwegian football club from the town of Ålesund, that competes in the Eliteserien, the first tier of the Norwegian football league system. The club was founded on 25 June 1914. ...
.
Manager career
Ahead of the 2015 season, Fredriksen became assistant manager to the new Aalesund manager
Harald Aabrekk. Aabrekk was sacked only a month into the league, and Fredriksen took over with
Karl Oskar Fjørtoft as his assistant. Fredriksen managed Aalesund until being relegated from the
2017 Eliteserien
The 2017 Eliteserien was the 73rd completed season of top-tier football in Norway. The season began on 1 April 2017 and ended on 26 November 2017, not including play-off matches. This was first season of Eliteserien as rebranding from Tippeligaen. ...
, but was sacked after the 2017 season. In August 2018 he was hired as coach developer in city minnows
Aksla IL.
Ahead of the 2019 season he moved to Eastern Norway as the new manager of
Ull/Kisa
Ullensaker/Kisa IL, commonly referred to as Ull/Kisa, is a Norwegian sports club from Jessheim in Ullensaker. Founded in 1894, it has sections for association football, team handball and athletics.
General history
The club was founded on 15 D ...
. He was sacked here after the 2020 season. He worked in the
Football Association of Norway
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for a period, before being hired by
Vålerenga
Vålerenga () is a neighbourhood in the city of Oslo, Norway, belonging to the borough of Gamle Oslo. Vålerenga is located between the neighbourhoods of Gamlebyen, Jordal, Ensjø, Etterstad and Lodalen. Vålerenga is in particular known for it ...
as a player developer ahead of the 2022 season.
Personal life
Trond Fredriksen's son Tengel Lia Fredriksen played for
Aalesund 2 before joining Ull/Kisa in the summer of 2019. In the summer of 2022, he joined
Vålerenga 2 before moving to
Brattvåg
Brattvåg is a village in Ålesund Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The village is located on the Norwegian mainland, along the west side of the Samfjorden. It is located about northwest of the villages of Vatne/ Eidsvik.
The ...
in 2023. Tengel Lia Fredriksen was also capped once for
Norway U17 in 2020.
Career statistics
References
External links
Guardian Football
1977 births
Living people
Footballers from Ålesund
Men's association football midfielders
Norwegian men's footballers
Aalesunds FK players
Norwegian First Division players
Eliteserien players
Norwegian football managers
Eliteserien managers
Aalesunds FK managers
Ullensaker/Kisa IL managers
Vålerenga Fotball non-playing staff
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