Trond Sollied

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Trond Sollied
Personal information
Full name Trond Sollied
Date of birth April 29, 1959 (1959-04-29) (age 49)
Place of birth    Mo i Rana, Norway
Playing position Defender (retired)
Club information
Current club Gent (manager)
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1976-1981
1982-1984
1985-1991
1992-1993		 Mo
Vålerenga
Rosenborg
Bodø/Glimt		  ? (?)
63 (9)
133 (12)
66 (1)   
National team
1985-1987 Norway 15 (1)
Teams managed
1992-1996
1998
1999-2000
2000-2005
2005-2006
2007-2008
2008-		 Bodø/Glimt
Rosenborg
Gent
Club Brugge
Olympiacos
Gent
Heerenveen

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)

Trond Sollied (born April 29, 1959 in Mo i Rana) is a Norwegian football manager and former player. In June 2007 he became manager of the Belgian club K.A.A. Gent for the second time in his career, having coached the club from 1999 until the summer of 2000. He has also managed F.K. Bodø/Glimt, Rosenborg B.K., Club Brugge K.V. and Olympiacos FC. From the start of next season, Sollied will take over at Dutch club SC Heerenveen.

During his career as a football player in Norway, Sollied played for Mo IL, Vålerenga I.F., Rosenborg, and finally Bodø/Glimt as player-manager. He earned fifteen caps for the Norwegian national team, scoring one goal.

His preferred formation, 4-3-3, is not changed under almost any circumstances. He uses a zonal four-man defence, a holding midfielder behind two central midfielders, two wingers left and right and finally a powerful striker. He loves and adopts attacking football in all of his teams.

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[edit] Playing career

Sollied started his career as a manager in 1992 at Bodø/Glimt where he was player/manager in the Norwegian 1st division. Sollied and Bodø/Glimt won the League and they were promoted to the Norwegian Premier League.

In 1993 Bodø/Glimt went straight to second place in the Norwegian Premier League and they won the Norwegian Cup. After that season, Sollied retired as player and became a coach.

[edit] Managerial career

With Sollied in charge, Bodø/Glimt finished third in the top division in 1995, losing the cup final against Tromsø I.L. in 1996.

Sollied was dismissed from Bodø/Glimt after a disagreement with the players and the club board. He went on to Rosenborg B.K. where he served as the assistant manager under legendary coach Nils Arne Eggen in the 1997 season. That year Rosenborg won the championship.

Eggen took a year off, and Sollied coached Rosenborg during the 1998 season. With him in charge, Rosenborg  – once again – won the league and qualified for the UEFA Champions League. The same year his team won the Football Scandinavian Masters.

In 1999 Sollied wanted a new challenge and therefore left the Norwegian League to try his luck in the Belgian League. His first team there was KAA Gent. In 2000 he was offered a job at Club Brugge and stayed there until 2005. In six seasons Sollied won everything, 2 championships (2003 and 2004), 2 cups (2002, 2004) and 2 Supercups (2002, 2004).

After the Norwegian national coach Nils Johan Semb retired in 2003, Sollied was mentioned as a replacement, but Sollied stated that he was only interested if he could combine the national team with his club position. This was not accepted by the Norwegian Football Association and Åge Hareide, coach for Rosenborg B.K. at that time, became the new national manager.

In 2005, one year before the end of his contract with Club Brugge, a video message was leaked to the Belgian press, in which Sollied stated that he left Brugge for Olympiacos FC. Sollied disputed that this video was released without his permission. It was only meant to be published after he had signed a contract, which was not yet the case according to him. In Belgium, this affair was seen as a trick to force Brugge to suspend his contract, to prevent Olympiacos from paying a hefty compensation. In a press release, Club Brugge stated that they had taken note of Sollied's decision to suspend his contract.

Sollied was officially presented by Olympiacos chairman Socrates Kokkalis as the club's new manager. In his debut season, he won the league title and the Greek cup, and was ranked ninth in Europe on UEFA's list of top coaches in 2006.[1]He also achieved winning the league title in three different countries.

In December 2006, after two disappointing Champions League seasons, with Olympiakos finishing fourth (last) at group stage on both occasions, chairman Kokkalis decided to sack Sollied, despite the club being at the top of the table of Greek Super League. Former Skoda Xanthi F.C. manager, Panagiotis Lemonis, was his replacement, returning to the club after 4 years.

In June 2007 K.A.A. Gent confirmed the return (after seven years) of Sollied as club manager.

On March 15 2008, it was confirmed that Sollied had signed a two-year deal with Dutch club SC Heerenveen.[2][3]

[edit] Honours

[edit] Player honours

With Vålerenga:

With Rosenborg:

With Bodø/Glimt:

[edit] Manager honours

With Bodø/Glimt:

With Rosenborg:

With Club Brugge:

With Olympiacos:

[edit] References

  1. ^ Sollied in European elite.
  2. ^ Sollied joins Heerenveen (Dutch)
  3. ^ Sollied joins Heerenveen (Norwegian)

[edit] External links

Preceded by
René Verheyen		 Club Brugge Coach
2000-2005		 Succeeded by
Jan Ceulemans
Preceded by
Dusan Bajevic		 Olympiacos FC Coach
2005-2006		 Succeeded by
Takis Lemonis
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Rosenborg Ballklub – Managers

Næss (1965–68) • Curtis (1968–71) • Eggen (1971–72) • Røste Fossen (1973–74) • Christiansen (1975) • Curtis (1976) • Eggen (1976) • Rime (1977) •
Eggen (1978–82) • Cavanagh (1983) • Sunde (1983) • B. Hansen (1984–85) • Dokken (1986–87) • Brakstad (1987) • Eggen (1988–97) • Sollied (1998) •
Eggen (1999–2002) • Hareide (2003) • By Rise (2004) • P. J. Hansen (2005) • Høgmo (2005–06) • Tørum (2006–07) • Henriksen (2007–08) • Hamrén (2008–)
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SC Heerenveen – Managers

Kelly (1954–55) • Ris (1955–58) • Plooijer (1958–61) • de Vroet (1961–63) • Mur (1963–65) • Zalai (1965–66) • Groenewoud (1966–67) • E. Teunissen (1967–69) • Paauwe jr. (1969–71) • de Jongh (1971–73) • Zalai (1973–78) • J. Teunissen (1977–80) • Kerkstra (a.i.) (1980) • van Brussel (1980–85) • de Haan (1985–88) • Immers (1988–89) • Gritter (1989–90) • Korbach (1990–92) • de Haan (1992–2004) • Verbeek (2004–2008) • Sollied (2008–)
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SC Heerenveen – current squad

2 Zuiverloon • 3 Bak Nielsen • 4 Breuer • 5 Dingsdag • 6 Bradley • 7 Poulsen • 8 Beerens • 11 Hanssen • 14 Prager • 15 Švec • 16 Jong-a-Pin • 17 Grindheim • 18 Loohuis • 19 Lopes • 21 Sulejmani • 22 H. Drost • 23 Pranjić • 24 Van Dijk • 25 Vandenbussche • 26 Paulo Henrique • 27 Etemadi • 28 Drooduin • 29 Deekman • 30 Mattes • 31 Smárason • 32 Huisman de Jong • 33 Roorda • 34 Wilusz • 35 Sibon • 36 Johansen • 37 Bloemendaal • 38 Balkestein • 39 Siwe • 40 Rozendaal • 42 Armenteros • - Ghoochannejhad • Manager: Sollied