Steinar Pettersen
Encyclopedia
Steinar Pettersen is a former football and bandy
international from Norway
. He played for Strømsgodset IF from 1962 to 1975. 282 matches, scoring 234 goals in football, he played even more and scored likewise for the bandy team. He won 6 caps in football and 25 in bandy. He won a silver medal with Norway in the Bandy World Championships
in Moscow
1965.
He scored all four goals in the Norwegian bandy final of 1962, beating Sparta 4-0. He was then 16 years of age. He won six Norwegian championships in this sport. He won the Norwegian 1st division (football) in 1970, and thre Championships (the Cup) in 1969, 1970 and 1973.
Pettersen played European football against Nantes (France), Leeds, Liverpool and Arsenal and won acclaim from the English players and managers.
He later managed Strømsgodset IF.
Bandy
Bandy is a team winter sport played on ice, in which skaters use sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal.The rules of the game have many similarities to those of association football: the game is played on a rectangle of ice the same size as a football field. Each team has 11 players,...
international from Norway
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...
. He played for Strømsgodset IF from 1962 to 1975. 282 matches, scoring 234 goals in football, he played even more and scored likewise for the bandy team. He won 6 caps in football and 25 in bandy. He won a silver medal with Norway in the Bandy World Championships
Bandy World Championships
The Bandy World Championships are a competition between bandy-playing nations. The tournament is administrated by the Federation of International Bandy....
in Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
1965.
He scored all four goals in the Norwegian bandy final of 1962, beating Sparta 4-0. He was then 16 years of age. He won six Norwegian championships in this sport. He won the Norwegian 1st division (football) in 1970, and thre Championships (the Cup) in 1969, 1970 and 1973.
Pettersen played European football against Nantes (France), Leeds, Liverpool and Arsenal and won acclaim from the English players and managers.
He later managed Strømsgodset IF.