Gøran Sørloth (born 16 July 1962) is a Norwegian former

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. He was one of the best strikers in Norwegian football during the late eighties and early nineties.

Club career

In the Norwegian top division he scored 74 goals in 174 matches for Rosenborg, with whom he won five league championships. Sørloth joined Rosenborg from Strindheim in 1985. Two years later he moved to

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in Germany, but the spell was unsuccessful and hence short, and Sørloth returned to Rosenborg. In 1993, he once again tried his luck abroad, in Turkish club Bursaspor, but he left in 1994 to play for

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for the remainder of his career.

International career

In addition, Sørloth scored 15 goals in 55 matches for

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. Sørloth was a part of the Norwegian

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squad, and played one match during the tournament. This was his last international match.

Personal life

His son

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is also a professional footballer.

Career statistics

International

:''Scores and results list Norway's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Sørloth goal.''

Honours

Rosenborg *

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, 1988, 1990,

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1993 The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as: * International Year for the World's Indigenous People The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...

* Norwegian Cup: 1988, 1990,

Individual * Kniksen Striker of the Year:

1991 It was the final year of the Cold War, which had begun in 1947. During the year, the Soviet Union Dissolution of the Soviet Union, collapsed, leaving Post-soviet states, fifteen sovereign republics and the Commonwealth of Independent State ...

References

External links

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RBKweb - Legend
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sorloth, Goran 1962 births Living people Footballers from Kristiansund People from Sør-Trøndelag 1994 FIFA World Cup players Kniksen Award winners Norwegian men's footballers Norway men's international footballers Strindheim IL players Rosenborg BK players Viking FK players Borussia Mönchengladbach players Bursaspor footballers Norwegian expatriate men's footballers Norwegian expatriate sportspeople in West Germany Expatriate men's footballers in West Germany Norwegian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey Expatriate men's footballers in Turkey Eliteserien players Bundesliga players Süper Lig players Men's association football forwards 20th-century Norwegian sportsmen