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About Bjarte Flem
- Bjarte Flem (born March 30, 1958) is a former Norwegian football goalkeeper.
- He played for the Norwegian football club Tromsø. He was immortalized for his mistake during a match against Sogndal in 1988, which was shown on live television.
- As Flem was about to throw the ball to a defender on his own team, he threw the ball into his own goal instead.
- While he was swinging his arm to throw the ball, he changed his mind when he figured out that his teammate was man-marked, resulting in that he let the ball go when he was aiming towards his own goal.
- The incident made the front pages of national newspapers the next day, and was shown on television in countries across the globe.
- In Norway, the name Bjarte Flem has become eponymous for a goalkeeper making a huge mistake. Even though Bjarte Flem mainly will be remembered for his huge mistake, he was also a good goalkeeper, who enjoyed many good seasons in Tromsø before he retired.
- Two years before the incident, Tromsø played in the Norwegian Cup Final and won their second Norwegian Cup Championship, with Flem as their goalkeeper.Before his footballing career he worked as a fisherman, and returned to this job later.
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