Reidun Seth
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Reidun Seth is a Norwegian
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 footballer
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

, world champion and olympic medallist, a football goalkeeper and a goalkeeper trainer.

She debuted for the Norwegian national team
Norway women's national football team
The Norway women's national football team represents Norway in international women's football. The team, controlled by the Football Association of Norway, are former European, World and Olympic champions and thus one of the most successful national teams...

 in 1984, and played 71 matches for the national team.

She received a bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics
1996 Summer Olympics
The 1996 Summer Olympics of Atlanta, officially known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad and unofficially known as the Centennial Olympics, was an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States....

 in Atlanta.

Clubs include IL Jardar
IL Jardar
Idrettslaget Jardar is a Norwegian sports club from Bærum, Akershus. It covers the areas Slependen, Jong and Tanum.Sports clubs in the area before World War II were Tanum IL, and minor clubs such as Jongsåsen IF, Pil and Uredd. IL Jardar was founded as a children's sports club on 4 June 1962...

, GAIS
GAIS
Göteborgs Atlet- och Idrottssällskap is a Swedish football club based in Gothenburg, currently playing in Allsvenskan. The club is commonly referred to simply as GAIS, while its fans also refers to the club as grönsvart or the mackerels because of the traditional shirt colours...

, Trollhättans IF and Nymark IL
Nymark IL
Nymark Idrettslag is a Norwegian sports club from Årstad, Bergen. It has sections for association football, cycling and athletics.It was founded on 21 April 1921, and was a member of Arbeidernes Idrettsforbund until that association ceased to exist...

. Reidun Seth joined Bergen club Arna-Bjørnar in 1999 and retired after the 2002 season. Since then she has worked as a full-time keeper trainer in Bergen and has among her students Norway's keeper, Erika Skarbø
Erika Skarbø
Erika Espeseth Skarbø is a Norwegian football goalkeeper who currently plays for Arna-Bjørnar in Norway's Toppserien, where she is trained by Reidun Seth...

.

Following Skarbø's absence due to injury in early 2009 Seth announced that she would be available to play for Arna-Bjørnar in the elite Toppserien league as the club's reserve goalkeeper to first keeper Precious Dede
Precious Dede
Precious Uzoaru Dede is a Nigerian female football goalkeeper with Delta Queens FC and Nigeria women's national football team....

. She played the full 90 minutes in the club's 3-0 win over Trondheims-Ørn on 4 July 2009 at the age of 43 years and 25 days. A year later, on 27 June 2010, Seth was again in action in the Arna-Bjørnar goal for 20 minutes, after first-keeper Erika Skarbø was injured. Seth played her last Toppserien match of 2010 on 18 September 2010 at the age of 44 years and 101 days, a 4-0 win for Arna-Bjørnar over Linderud-Grei. She has made herself available as a reserve keeper for the 2011 season.
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