Andreas Aalbu

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Andreas Aalbu
Personal information
Date of birth (1990-03-26) 26 March 1990 (age 34)
Place of birth Bærum, Norway
Height 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) [1]
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Vålerenga (marketing director)
Youth career
Bærum
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2009–2012 Bærum
2013 Kristiansund 26 (0)
2014–2015 Bærum 47 (14)
2015–2016 Fredrikstad 26 (3)
2016 → Varberg (loan) 10 (0)
2017–2018 Ull/Kisa 35 (8)
2018 Fredrikstad 11 (3)
2019 Høvik
Managerial career
2019–2020 Ull/Kisa (marketing director)
2020–2022 Ull/Kisa (managing director)
2023 Stabæk (marketing director)
2023– Vålerenga (marketing director)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Andreas Aalbu (born 26 March 1990) is a Norwegian footballer who played as a midfielder. He spent most of his playing career in the Norwegian First Division from 2012 to 2018, also becoming known for staff roles after his active career.

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Personal life

He is a son of Jan-Erik Aalbu and Ellen Scheel, both footballers, though only his mother represented Norway on international level. [2]

The family resided in the United States for two years when he was little. As a child and teenager he also participated in ski jumping, representing the club Lommedalens IL. [3] He jumped 125 metres, but retired from ski jumping at the age of 14. Through his adolescence, it turned out that he grew too tall to be a ski jumper anyway. [2]

Career

Andreas Aalbu made the step from Bærum SK's youth team to its senior team, eventually winning promotion from the 2011 2. divisjon. Of Aalbu's 79 league and playoff games for Bærum in the First Division, 78 were in the starting eleven. He also spent one year (2013) in Kristiansund BK. [1] [4] He did not score a single goal in Kristiansund, but upon returning to Bærum, he scored three goals and made one assist in the opening match of the 2014 1. divisjon. [5]

The 2014 season ended with Bærum reaching an all-time high, the 2014 Eliteserien promotion/relegation play-offs. In the summer window of 2015, however, Aalbu joined Fredrikstad FK, a larger club, but one that struggled in the table. On leaving Bærum who sunk into in a similar situation, Aalbu stated that the loss of Bærum's former manager and several players meant that Bærum had lost "some of its soul". Fredrikstad also had much larger fan crowds, and he became fully professional as a footballer. [2] [6] He made his debut against Strømmen in August 2015, scoring once, followed by his home debut in late August, scoring again. [7] [8] Fredrikstad barely survived relegation in the closing minutes of the 2015 1. divisjon, after a goal from Aalbu secured one point for Fredrikstad, as well as other results being favourable. [9]

In 2016 he was loaned to Varbergs BoIS of the Superettan. Ljungskile SK was also rumoured to be interested. [10] He then surfaced in Ull/Kisa before the start of the 2017 season. He made his debut in a La Manga friendly and scored the only goal of the match against Florø. [11] In 2018, he went back to the Second Division for the first time since 2011, and also to another former club of his, when signing for promotion chasers Fredrikstad FK. [12]

Post-playing career

Aalbu studied sport management at Molde University College and the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences. [13] He got his first job within sports shortly after ending his playing career in late 2018, when Ull/Kisa hired him as director of marketing and sponsorates. [14]

In January 2020, Aalbu was announced as Ull/Kisa's new managing director. He took over for Cato Strømberg, a man credited with transforming Ull/Kisa to an elite club competing in the second highest league. [15] He sometimes employed an antagonistic style, stating on social media that "he would not set foot" on the grounds of his former club Bærum SK, following a disagreement over COVID-19 rules. [16] In the early summer of 2021, Aalbu experienced that Ull/Kisa hired a new manager, Sindre Tjelmeland, who resigned only five matches into the season to take over a larger club. [17] In reality, Aalbu and Tjelmeland maintained an amicable personal relation. [18] The season ended in relegation for Ull/Kisa. [19]

In September 2022 he joined Bærum SK's main rival, Stabæk Fotball, as their new marketing director. In Budstikka , Aalbu vowed not to change jobs in the foreseeable future. The question was posed because his father had acquired a reputation for jumping between a considerable number of executive jobs. [13] After one year, in September 2023 it was announced that Andreas Aalbu had been persuaded to take over as marketing director of Vålerenga Fotball, starting in 2024. [20] He was allowed to leave Stabæk before 2023 ended; [21] a season that saw both Stabæk and Vålerenga being relegated from the 2023 Eliteserien.

He criticized Viaplay's decision to air the Saudi Premier League. [22]

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References

  1. 1 2 Andreas Aalbu at Soccerway
  2. 1 2 3 Henriksen, Vidar (21 August 2015). "Skal servere scoringer til 20 i stil". Fredriksstad Blad (in Norwegian). p. 24.
  3. ↑ Kolve, André (17 February 2003). "Hoppsjefens sønn sikter mot landslaget". Porsgrunns Dagblad (in Norwegian). p. 14.
  4. ↑ Andreas Aalbu at the Norwegian Football Federation (in Norwegian)
  5. ↑ Gulbrandsen, Ragnhild (7 April 2014). "36 poeng bør holde, Bærum". Budstikka (in Norwegian). p. 14.
  6. ↑ Fløttum, Petter (5 October 2015). "– Det var godt å komme bort". Budstikka (in Norwegian). p. 12.
  7. ↑ Henriksen, Vidar; Carlsson, Geir A. (17 August 2015). "Flott debut av Andreas Aalbu: Seier etter stort drama". Fredriksstad Blad (in Norwegian). pp. 16–17.
  8. ↑ Henriksen, Vidar (31 August 2015). "– Det blir en morsom høst". Fredriksstad Blad (in Norwegian). pp. 16–17.
  9. ↑ Johnsen, Thomas; Johnsen, Trond (1 November 2015). "– Det her er helt sinnsykt" (in Norwegian). NRK. Retrieved 7 December 2024.
  10. ↑ Kalméus, Kajsa (7 July 2016). "Superettaklubb värvar två norska spelare". Expressen (in Swedish). Retrieved 7 December 2024.
  11. ↑ Hansen, Thomas (14 March 2017). "Aalbu avgjorde i debuten". Eidsvoll Ullensaker Blad (in Norwegian). p. 17.
  12. ↑ Olsen, Christine Skarstein (12 July 2018). "Høgmo forsterker med spiller fra OBOS-ligaen" (in Norwegian). Eurosport. Retrieved 7 December 2024.
  13. 1 2 Holmlund, Tor Bjørnar (28 January 2023). "Aalbu mot en ny epoke". Budstikka (in Norwegian). p. 27.
  14. ↑ "Kisa ansatte sponsor- og markedsansvarlig". Eidsvoll Ullensaker Blad (in Norwegian). 28 November 2018. p. 15.
  15. ↑ Stormoen, Stein-Erik (28 January 2020). "Gir seg som daglig leder etter ni år: – Har vært helt avgjørende" (in Norwegian). Eurosport. Retrieved 7 December 2024.
  16. ↑ Holmlund, Tor Bjørnar (12 June 2020). "Bærum-profil: – Setter ikke mine bein på Sandvika stadion i 2020". Budstikka (in Norwegian). p. 15.
  17. ↑ Stormoen, Stein-Erik (21 June 2021). "Diskuterer trenerspørsmålet i kveld – assistenten melder seg på" (in Norwegian). Eurosport. Retrieved 7 December 2024.
  18. ↑ Miøen, Joakim (14 July 2021). "Freste da treneren stakk, nå inngår de våpenhvile: – Blitt glade i hverandre" (in Norwegian). Eurosport. Retrieved 7 December 2024.
  19. ↑ "Ull/Kisa rykket ned fra 1. divisjon – KFUM og Sogndal sikret kvalifiseringsplass". Nettavisen (in Norwegian). Norwegian News Agency. 27 November 2021. Retrieved 7 December 2024.
  20. ↑ "Aalbu går til Vålerenga – Stabæk sender spøkefull melding". Nettavisen (in Norwegian). Norwegian News Agency. 19 September 2023. Retrieved 7 December 2024.
  21. ↑ "Stabæk slo tilbake mot syrlig VIF-stikk – spøkefull "ordkrig" foran skjebnekampen" (in Norwegian). NRK. Norwegian News Agency. 9 November 2023. Retrieved 7 December 2024.
  22. ↑ Clausen, Åsmund (26 September 2024). "Fotballtopp slakter Viaplay-grep: – Bare trist". Nettavisen (in Norwegian). Retrieved 7 December 2024.
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