Terje Liverød (born 18 July 1955) is a Norwegian player agent and former

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Playing career

Liverød, who lives in Uruguay, was born in

Tønsberg Tønsberg (), historically Tunsberg, is a List of towns and cities in Norway, city in Tønsberg Municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. It is located about south-southwest of the capital city of Oslo on the western coast of the Oslofjord near ...

, but hails from

Sandefjord Sandefjord () is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district of Vestfold. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Sandefjord ...

and played more than 100 matches for the local club

Sandefjord BK Sandefjord Ballklubb is a Norwegian football club from Sandefjord, currently playing in Norwegian Fourth Division, the fifth tier in the Norwegian football league system. The club was founded on 27 February 1917. Their home matches are played at ...

. In 1977, he left his hometown and moved to

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, where he played for various top clubs, including

Kjøbenhavns Boldklub Kjøbenhavns Boldklub (known simply as KB) was a Danish professional multi-sports club based in Copenhagen. The club was founded on 26 April 1876 on the grassy fields in outer Copenhagen which later became Fælledparken. Tennis has been played s ...

(now

FC Copenhagen Football Club Copenhagen (, ), commonly known as F.C. København, F.C. Copenhagen, Copenhagen, or simply FCK, is a Danish professional football club based in Copenhagen. FCK was founded in 1992 as a superstructure on top of Kjøbenhavns Boldklu ...

). Liverod also played in Brasil and Singapore, before he returned to

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where he ended his career with Sandefjord BK in 1987.

Career outside football

Liverod has a master's degree in Economics and Business Administration and has been managing

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. He was for a while managing director of the Norwegian company Jordan AS in Latin America and later on Far East and

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. He is among others known in Norway for his relationship with

Diego Maradona Diego Armando Maradona Franco (30 October 196025 November 2020) was an Argentine professional association football, football player and manager. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of the sport, he was one of the two ...

; Liverød was Maradona's agent in

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and managed his "Showbol Argentina" tour in 2006. Liverod has been working as a player agent with base in

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and have scouted or assisted several top South-American players being transferred to European clubs, among others

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who he discovered in

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in 1999 together with

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("Turu"), Darío Rodríguez,

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when he was 19 years old and Matias Almeyda. Liverød has worked as scout and South American consultant for various top clubs in Europe, including FC Schalke 04 of Germany. In 2008, he tried to start a cooperation between Schalke and the Norwegian club

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, but the attempt failed. In 2007 and 2008, Matias Almeyda and Liverød attempted to buy the at that time Norwegian top club FC Lyn, where Almeyda had been playing, and later on

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, a club from Liverød's hometown. However, both negotiations were unsuccessful. During the

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and

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's, Liverod worked part-time for the Norwegian television station TV 2 and during

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for the state channel

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. In connection with

Liverød made a documentary with and about the legend from the

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;

Alcides Ghiggia Alcides Edgardo Ghiggia Pereyra (; 22 December 1926 – 16 July 2015) was a Uruguayan football player, who played as a right winger. He achieved lasting fame for his decisive role in the final match of the 1950 World Cup, and at the time of ...

. The film was shown on TV channels in South America and also used by his friend Maradona on the latter's program "De Zurda" as well as by

during the

References

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