Personal information | |||
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Full name | Marita Skammelsrud Lund | ||
Date of birth | 29 January 1989 | ||
Place of birth | Lørenskog, Norway[1] | ||
Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||
Playing position | Defender / Midfielder | ||
Club information | |||
Current club | LSK Kvinner FK | ||
Number | 3 | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
Lisleby FK | |||
Skogstrand | |||
Flyers and Vikings Singapore | |||
2007– | LSK Kvinner FK | ||
National team‡ | |||
2005–2006 | Norway U-17 | 13 | (1) |
2006–2008 | Norway U-19 | 23 | (2) |
2008 | Norway U-20 | 7 | (1) |
2010–2011 | Norway U-23 | 4 | (1) |
2007– | Norway | 22 | (0) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 16 June 2010 (UTC). † Appearances (Goals). |
Marita Skammelsrud Lund (born 29 January 1989) is a Norwegian footballer. She began as a midfielder, but for the Norway women's national football team she plays at right back, and at her club, LSK Kvinner FK, she usually plays as central midfield. Lund has previously played for Lisleby FK, Skogstrand and Flyers and Vikings Singapore. She lived in Singapore for four years from 1997 until 2001.[2]
Lund has won 22 caps for Norway women's national football team, but scored no goals. In October 2007 she was drafted into the senior squad for a match against Russia, aged 18, following an injury to Marit Fiane Christensen.[3] Lund then played for Norway at the 2008 Summer Olympics in China.[4] She also represented Norway in the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup, where her pace and versatility were praised by the coach.[5]
Marita Skammelsrud Lund is the niece of Bent Skammelsrud, former captain of Rosenborg Ballklub.[6]
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