Erik Johannessen (footballer, born 1952)

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Erik Johannessen
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Erik Johannessen in 2007
Personal information
Full name Erik Hjorth Johannessen
Date of birth (1952-03-20) 20 March 1952 (age 71)
Place of birth Stavanger, Norway
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1971–1983 Viking 245 (0)
Total245(0)
International career
1968–1970 Norway U-19 11 (0)
1972–1975 Norway U-21 8 (0)
1975 Norway 6 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Erik Johannessen (born 20 March 1952) is a Norwegian former footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Viking between 1971 and 1983. He won the Norwegian league six times and earned six caps while playing for Norway. Johannessen has later been a part of Viking coaching-staff as a goalkeeping-coach.

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Club career

Johannessen was born in Stavanger [1] and started his career in Viking in 1971, where he soon became Sverre Andersen's successor as the first-choice goalkeeper. [2] Johannessen was a part of Viking's golden generation that won four consecutive Norwegian league championships between 1972 and 1975, [3] and he was voted Viking-player of the year in both 1974 and 1975. [4] Johannessen also kept a clean sheet for 672 minutes in the 1974 1. divisjon. [5] As of the end of the 2012 season, this is still the record in the top league of Norway, with Kenneth Udjus 557 minutes from 2011 and 2012 as the second-longest clean sheet. [6]

Johannessen also won the league with Viking in 1979 and 1982, and is with his six championship the most-winning Viking-player of all times. His last match for Viking was the 2–9 loss against Brann in the last match of the 1983 season. [2] He played 245 league-matches for Viking between 1971 and 1983, [1] and with 501 matches for Viking, including friendlies, he is the Viking-player with third most appearances for the club, behind Svein Kvia and Sigbjørn Slinning. [7]

International career

Johannessen played 11 matches for the Norway under-19 team between 1968 and 1970, before he played 8 matches for the under-21 team between 1972 and 1975. He made his debut for the senior team against Finland on 15 May 1975, and was capped a total of 6 times playing for Norway. [8]

Coaching career

Johannessen was working as Benny Lennartsson's goalkeeping-coach at Viking in 1989 and 1990. He later worked as goalkeeping-coach at Hinna before he was coaching Viking's youth-team. [9] He was also working as a teacher at Kristianlyst Ungdomskole, but left this job when he replaced Kurt Hegre as Viking's goalkeeping-coach ahead of the 2007 season. [10] He quit the job in the coaching staff after the 2010 season, and joined Viking's administrative staff before he returned to his teacher-job from 1 January 2012 and became Jørn Øvrebø's assistant coach at Hinna in the 3. divisjon. [11]

Personal life

Johannessen had two daughters, Josefine and Martine, and was married to Brit Tone who died from cancer in 2011. Four days after his wife's burial, he got a large rift in the aorta. The doctors claimed he had a 50% chance of surviving, but Johannessen recovered after a ten-hour-long surgery at Haukeland Sykehus. [12]

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  6. ↑ Sandberg, Fredrik Økstad (15 April 2012). "Udjus klarte 557 minutter uten baklengsmål" (in Norwegian). Dagbladet. Retrieved 15 March 2012.
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