Trygve Johannessen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Norwegian footballer and manager
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About Trygve Johannessen
- Trygve Johannessen (born 11 January 1953) is a former Norwegian footballer.
- He is best known for his time at Viking, with whom he won four league titles and one cup between 1974-1982.
- He scored a total of 181 goals in 312 games for Viking (these numbers include friendlies). Johannessen had many youth caps when he moved from Florvåg to Viking in the summer of 1974.
- Viking paid somewhat less than 40,000 kr for the player, at a time when money was seen as taboo in Norwegian football.
- Johannessen played well to hold his place in the team, and was for many years Viking's top scorer.
- He became top goalscorer in the first division with 17 goals in 1977 and 11 goals in 1982. After a couple of seasons in the reserves at Viking, Johannessen was sold to neighbours Vidar in 1981.
- Here he was an unrivalled success.
- In the course of a season, he scored 56 goals and helped Vidar to promotion to the Second Division.
- In 1982, he returned to Viking.
- He won his fifth title with the club and together with Ham-Kam's Tor Arne Granerud he was top scorer with eleven goals. In 1983, he returned to Vidar again, where he stayed for two seasons.
- Over his three seasons with Vidar, Johannessen played 109 games and scored 124 goals (including friendlies).
- In his first ten years of his career, Johannessen scored a total of 305 goals for the two Stavanger clubs.
- In 1985, he played one season for Brann and scored eleven league goals. Johannessen finished his football career in Florvåg IF, where he started it.
- He later became manager of many local clubs, such as Florvåg, Løv-Ham, Follese FK and Askøy FK. Johannessen won five caps and seven youth caps.
- He made his international debut against the Soviet Union on 24 September 1975.
- His other caps were Olympic qualifying matches in 1979.
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