Vebjørn Walnum Vinje (born 7 April 1995) is a Norwegian

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who plays as a defender for Stjørdals-Blink.

Club career

Vinje was born in

Nesna Municipality Nesna is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Nordland Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Helgeland Districts of Norway, traditional region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Nesna (village), v ...

. He made his senior debut for Nesna IL on the fifth tier in 2011, before moving in autumn to attend the Norwegian School of Elite Sport in

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. He briefly joined the youth ranks of Stabæk before fielding in the 2012 season for

Bærum Bærum () is a list of municipalities of Norway, municipality in the Greater Oslo Region in Akershus County, Norway. It forms an affluent suburb of Oslo on the west coast of the city. Bærum is Norway's fifth largest municipality with a populatio ...

. Ahead of the 2013 season he quit his school, moved back to Nesna and started playing for the regional greats

Mo IL Mo Idrettslag is a football club from Mo i Rana, Norway. History Mo IL was founded in 1904, as the first football club in Nord-Norge. In the first couple of years, Mo only played against teams with Englishmen working in the area, but on 7 June ...

. He joined Bodø/Glimt in the summer of 2014, but in the remainder of the season he only played as far as their B team. He made his senior debut for Bodø/Glimt on 8 November 2015 against Stabæk; Bodø/Glimt won 6–1. On 1 April, he joined Mo on loan. On 20 August 2017 he joined

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after moving to

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to study at the NTNU, and in 2018 he moved on to another Trondheim club Nardo. In the summer of 2019 he went on to a third third club in the Trondheim region, Stjørdals-Blink.

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References

1995 births Living people People from Nesna Norwegian men's footballers Eliteserien players Men's association football defenders FK Bodø/Glimt players Byåsen Toppfotball players IL Stjørdals-Blink players Footballers from Nordland 21st-century Norwegian sportsmen {{Norway-footy-defender-stub