Tor Thodesen

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Tor Thodesen
Personal information
Date of birth (1966-03-03) 3 March 1966 (age 58)
Place of birth Nøtterøy, Norway
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
 Oslo Football Academy (manager)
Youth career
Teie
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1985 Teie
1986–1988 Nøtterøy
1989–1990 Ready
1990–1991 Teie
1992– Bygdø
Managerial career
1991–1994 Lyn (gk.coach and assistant)
1992 Asker women (goalkeeper coach)
1992–1993 Asker women
1995–1998 Vålerenga (goalkeeper coach)
1999 Estonia and Flora Tallinn (assistant)
2000–2003 Brann (assistant)
2004 Norheimsund
2005–2008 Sandefjord
2009–2010 Tønsberg
2011–2012 Moss
2013–2014 Baniyas (assistant)
2015 Flint (assistant)
2016 Tønsberg (youth/developer)
2016 Tønsberg
2017–2018 Eik-Tønsberg (youth/director of sports)
2018 Hønefoss
2019–2020 HIFK
2021 Kvik Halden
2022– Oslo Football Academy
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Tor Thodesen (born 3 March 1966) is a Norwegian football coach. In 2006, he was awarded the "Coach of the year" award by his colleagues, for his work in Sandefjord. [1]

Contents

Career

Early years

Thodesen played youth football in Teie IF and was drafted into the senior squad in the mid-1980s. [2] In 1986 he moved to neighbours Nøtterøy IF.

He also enrolled in the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences in Oslo. For some time he commuted from Oslo to Nøtterøy to play for his team, but transferred to IF Ready after the 1988 season. [3] In the summer of 1990 he returned to Teie, upon graduation from the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences. [4] While studying and playing, Thodesen also did academy work and goalkeeper coaching in Teie, Nøtterøy and Ready. He was recruited by Per Egil Nygård as an instructor in Oslo Goalkeeper School. In 1991 Thodesen became goalkeeper coach for Lyn, among others for the national team player Einar Rossbach. [5] After the 1991 season he was promoted to assistant manager, and quit his active career for Teie. [6] Thodesen was also goalkeeper coach of Asker' women's team on a part-time basis, and was announced as new head coach in September 1992. [7] He continued in Lyn until the end of the 1994 season, when contract negotiations stalled and he was picked up by Vålerenga. [8] He also worked at the Norwegian School of Elite Sport. Between 1999 and 2002, he joined his former superior in Lyn, Teitur Thordarson, as assistant coach in Flora Tallinn, Estonia and SK Brann.

Sandefjord Fotball

Thodesen coached Norheimsund IL and won promotion to the Second Division with the small club. In 2005, Thodesen took over Sandefjord Fotball, and led the club to its first promotion to Tippeligaen in his first season, after a dramatical last round in the 2005 Norwegian First Division, where Moss FK were beaten 4–3. Though thought upon by most Norwegian football experts, as the weakest team in the 2006 Norwegian Premier League, Sandefjord managed to retain their spot in Tippeligaen with a 9th place, and qualified to the cup final for the first time in the history of the club.

The following season, Sandefjord won 5 of 30 league matches and were relegated to the First Division. In the next season, Thodesen was fired on 7 May 2008, the day after a humiliating loss to Notodden FK took Sandefjord to a 15th place in Adeccoligaen. [9]

Second Division

On 31 October 2008 Thodesen signed for the Second Division club FK Tønsberg, [10] and the goal was promotion to the First Division. After two years, he left FK Tønsberg stating that "the current economic situation in the club does not allow a full time coach". [11]

Thodesen was hired as the head coach of Second Division side Moss FK ahead of the 2011 season. [12]

UAE and return to Vestfold

Following a tenure as assistant manager of Emirati club Baniyas, Thodesen moved back to Vestfold and was hired at Re Upper Secondary School. [13]

Steadily approached by local clubs, he was assistant coach of IL Flint in the autumn of 2015, before being hired as player developer and U16 coach in FK Tønsberg. [14] [15] In the summer of 2016 he became caretaker manager of the men's team. [16] After the season he moved to Eik-Tønsberg as director of sports and U16 coach. [17] He remained until September 2018, when Frode Lafton was sacked as Hønefoss BK manager and Thodesen was hired in his place. [18]

Abroad

Thodesen was the head coach of HIFK in Finland from 2019 to 2020. [19] After spending 2021 in Kvik Halden FK, Thodesen was hired as manager of the Senegalese second-tier outfit Oslo Football Academy. He was brought to Senegal by Youssoupha Fall, a player agent whom Thodesen had worked with since coaching Sandefjord. [20]

Honours

Individual

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References

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  2. ↑ "Har Teie også løst sine forsvarsproblemer?". Tønsbergs Blad (in Norwegian). 25 April 1985. p. 23.
  3. ↑ "NIF mister Tor Thodesen". Tønsbergs Blad (in Norwegian). 6 December 1988. p. 14.
  4. ↑ "Ny Teie-keeper". Tønsbergs Blad (in Norwegian). 5 June 1990. p. 17.
  5. ↑ "Lyn-satsing på Teie-keeper". Tønsbergs Blad (in Norwegian). 3 April 1991. p. 16.
  6. ↑ "Teie-keeper blir Lyn-trener". Tønsbergs Blad (in Norwegian). 5 November 1991. p. 19.
  7. ↑ "Thodesen overtar Askers damer". Tønsbergs Blad (in Norwegian). 24 September 1992. p. 21.
  8. ↑ "Likevel til eliteserien". Tønsbergs Blad (in Norwegian). 9 December 1994. p. 17.
  9. ↑ "Thodesen fikk én million i sluttpakke". Aftenposten.no (in Norwegian). 7 May 2008. Archived from the original on 22 March 2012. Retrieved 10 August 2011.
  10. ↑ "Thodesen tar tre år i Tønsberg". Tønsbergs Blad (in Norwegian). 31 October 2008. Archived from the original on 22 July 2012. Retrieved 10 August 2011.
  11. ↑ "– Jeg så ingen mulighet til å fortsette i FKT". Tønsbergs Blad (in Norwegian). 7 April 2011. Retrieved 10 August 2011.
  12. ↑ "Tor Thodesen tar over Moss" (in Norwegian). Moss FK. 16 November 2010. Retrieved 10 August 2011.
  13. ↑ "Gjest som vil bli ved sin lest". Tønsbergs Blad (in Norwegian). 23 February 2015. pp. 12–13.
  14. ↑ "Forsterket på benken". Tønsbergs Blad (in Norwegian). 12 September 2015. p. 23.
  15. ↑ "FKT og Tor prøver igjen og igjen". Tønsbergs Blad (in Norwegian). 5 November 2015. pp. 14–15.
  16. ↑ "– Jeg er like overrasket som alle andre". Tønsbergs Blad (in Norwegian). 29 July 2016. p. 14.
  17. ↑ "Blir sportslig leder og trener". Tønsbergs Blad (in Norwegian). 5 December 2016. pp. 12–13.
  18. ↑ "Tønsbergs Blad". Thodesen ny Hønefoss-trener (in Norwegian). 3 September 2018. p. 18.
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