Bjørn Otto Bragstad

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Bjørn Otto Bragstad
Personal information
Full name	Bjørn Otto Bragstad
Date of birth	(1971-01-05) January 5, 1971
Place of birth	Trondheim, Norway
Height	1.94 m (6 ft 4 ¹⁄₂ in)
Playing position	Central Defender
Youth career
	Utleira
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
1989–2000	Rosenborg	195	(26)
2000–2001	Derby County	12	(0)
2001–2002	→ Birmingham City (loan)	3	(0)
2002–2004	SW Bregenz	41	(2)
Total		251	(28)
National team
1999–2000	Norway	15	(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Bjørn Otto Bragstad (born 5 January 1971) is a former football defender from Norway.

Club career

Bragstad came through the youth ranks at Rosenborg before making his senior debut in the 1989 season. He scored 26 goals in 194 matches for them. In 2000, he joined English team Derby. Playing just 12 matches, scoring twice in a League Cup tie against West Bromwich Albion,^[1] he was no success and went on loan to Birmingham where he would only play three matches the following season. He spent the rest of his career in Austria with Bregenz before retiring in the summer of 2004.

International career

He made his debut for Norway in a January 1999 friendly match against Israel and was capped 15 times.^[2] His last international match was an August 2000 friendly against Finland. Bragstad was a squad player at the Euro 2000 and played in all three matches for Norway.

Honours

Rosenborg BK

Norwegian Premier League Champion (10):^[3] 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001
Norwegian Football Cup Win: 1992, 1995, 1999

References

↑ "West Brom 2-4 Derby (Agg: 4-5)". BBC. 26 September 2000. Retrieved 3 November 2009.
↑ Norway - International Players - Landslaget
↑ "Mestvinnende med RBK" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 20 August 2009.

External links

Bjørn Otto Bragstad at National-Football-Teams.com

v t e Norway squad – UEFA Euro 2000

1 Myhre 2 Bergdølmo 3 Bragstad 4 Berg 5 Andersen 6 Strand 7 Mykland 8 Solbakken 9 T. Flo 10 Rekdal 11 Skammelsrud 12 Olsen 13 M. Bakke 14 Heggem 15 Riise 16 Eggen 17 Carew 18 Iversen 19 E. Bakke 20 Solskjær 21 Riseth 22 Bjørnebye Coach: Semb

Persondata
Name	Bragstad, Bjorn Otto
Alternative names
Short description	Norwegian footballer
Date of birth	5 January 1971
Place of birth	Trondheim, Norway
Date of death
Place of death

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