Kari Nielsen
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| Date of birth | 26 May 1959 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Sør-Odal, Norway | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Forward | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1978-1987 | Asker | ||||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1978-1987 | Norway | 49 | (14) | ||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1994-1996 | Asker | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
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Kari Nielsen (born 26 May 1959) is a former Norwegian footballer, known as the first goal scorer for the Norway women's national football team.[1]
Nielsen was also part of the Norwegian team at the 1987 European Championships. Kari Nielsen scored 14 goals in 49 appearances for Norway.[2]
From 1994 through 1996 she managed Asker. After that she worked on an offshore oil rig.[3]
Openly lesbian, she headed a Norwegian football team at the 2002 Gay Games as player-coach.[4]
Honours
Norway
References
- 1 2 "Gossen god som gull". Aftenposten.
- ↑ Fotballforbund, Norges. "Kari Nielsen - Profil". Norges Fotballforbund.
- ↑ "Sparket bort fordommene". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). 26 June 1997. p. 19.
- ↑ "Vil vinne gull i homo-lekene". Bergens Tidende.
Categories:
- 1959 births
- Living people
- People from Sør-Odal Municipality
- Norwegian women's footballers
- Norway women's international footballers
- Toppserien players
- Women's association football forwards
- Norwegian women's football managers
- Asker Fotball (women) players
- Asker Fotball (women) managers
- UEFA Women's Championship–winning players
- 20th-century Norwegian sportswomen
- Norwegian lesbian sportswomen
- Norwegian LGBTQ footballers
- Norwegian women's football biography stubs