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Eirik Skjælaaen

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Eirik Skjælaaen
Eirik Skjælaaen.
Personal information
Date of birth (1974-10-14) 14 October 1974 (age 50)
Place of birth Bergen, Norway
Position(s) midfielder
Youth career
Bergen Nord
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
–1991 Bergen Nord
1992–1999 Brann 40 (7)
1998Haugesund (loan) 3 (0)
1999–2003 Fyllingen
International career
1990 Norway U15 1 (1)
1991 Norway U16 2 (0)
1992 Norway U17 6 (0)
1993 Norway U18 3 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Eirik Skjælaaen (born 14 October 1974) is a retired Norwegian football midfielder.

A youth player in Bergen Nord FK, he was among others offered a scholarship from a university in Colorado.[1] He represented Norway as a youth international.[2] In 1992 he joined the largest club in Bergen, SK Brann.[3] He appeared for the first team from 1995 on, and following a 1995 season with ample playing opportunities he featured more scarcely in 1996 and 1997 and not at all in 1998.[2]

In late July 1998 a quintet was axed from the Brann squad, being demoted to the junior team lest they found another club: Geir Hasund, Eirik Skjælaaen, Gunnar Norebø, Morten Pettersen and André Herfindal.[4] A week later Skjælaaen signed for FK Haugesund on loan.[5] After a lengthy contract dispute also involving the players' trade union, Skjælaaen was finally released in April 1999 and commenced a long stint in Fyllingen.[6][7]

References

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  1. ^ "Fra Ask(en) til ilden". VG (in Norwegian). 31 July 1990.
  2. ^ a b Eirik Skjælaaen at the Norwegian Football Federation (in Norwegian)
  3. ^ "Fra Ask(en) til ilden". Bergens Tidende (in Norwegian). 24 April 1992.
  4. ^ "Fem vraket i Brann". Bergens Tidende (in Norwegian). 28 July 1998.
  5. ^ "Skjælaaen til Haugesund" (in Norwegian). Norwegian News Agency. 4 August 1998.
  6. ^ "Forlik mellom Hasund og Brann" (in Norwegian). Norwegian News Agency. 9 April 1999.
  7. ^ "Skjælaaen klar for Fyllingen". Bergens Tidende (in Norwegian). 12 April 1999.