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Pål Arne Johansen (born 16 February 1977) is a Norwegian professional
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and former
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who played as a
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. He was most recently the head coach of
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club Häcken.


Career

Johansen hails from
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where he played youth football for Sport-71 and
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, and made his senior debut for Brønnøy in 1993. Ahead of the 1994 season, he moved south to attend the Norwegian School of Elite Sport and play youth football for
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. His first senior team in Southeast Norway was Fossum, joining
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team
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in 1998. After barely featuring in their promotion season of 2000, he went on to Ull/Kisa. In 2002, he joined
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, but after one season he pursued a coaching career, starting as player-manager of
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. He also immersed himself in theoretical football studies at the
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, co-writing the book ''Ferdighetsutvikling i fotball'' in 2002. Johansen was a player developer in Lyn, and in late 2005, when Lyn contested the
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, Johansen was acting assistant manager under
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. Johansen however resigned because of the values espoused by Lyn's directors. Following his club exploits, Johansen was hired by the
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in 2006, first as assistant coach of the
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. Already after his first season he was named Young Manager of the Year by the football managers' association. He left the Norwegian women's national team after the
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. He was the assistant manager of
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in the 2011 and 2012 seasons, and assistant manager of
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(again under Henning Berg) from July 2014 to October 2015. Ahead of the 2017 season he succeeded
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as head coach of Norway U18 and U19. He led Norway to the
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(for the first time since 2005) and the
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(for the first time since 1993). On 24 January 2022, he was appointed head coach of
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club Odd.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Johansen, Paal Arne 1977 births Living people People from Brønnøy Footballers from Nordland Norwegian School of Sport Sciences alumni Norwegian men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Fossum IF players Lyn Fotball players Ullensaker/Kisa IL players Bærum SK players Norwegian First Division players Norwegian football managers Men's association football player-managers Legia Warsaw non-playing staff Odds BK managers BK Häcken managers Eliteserien managers Allsvenskan managers Norwegian expatriate football managers Norwegian expatriate sportspeople in Poland Expatriate football managers in Sweden Norwegian expatriate sportspeople in Sweden