Frode Grodås

Frode Grodås

Frode Grodås in 2008 as Lillestrøm coach
Personal information
Full name	Frode Grodås
Date of birth	(1964-10-24) 24 October 1964
Place of birth	Hornindal, Norway[1]
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Youth career
0000–1982	Hornindal
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1982–1986	Sogndal		(0)
1987–1996	Lillestrøm	182	(1)
1996–1998	Chelsea	21	(0)
1998	Tottenham Hotspur	0	(0)
1998–2002	Schalke 04	3	(0)
1999	→ Racing Santander (loan)	6	(0)
2002–2003	Hønefoss	49	(0)
2007	Lillestrøm	0	(0)
National team
1981	Norway U-16[2]	2	(0)
1982	Norway U-19[2]	3	(0)
1989	Norway U-21[2]	5	(0)
1991–2002	Norway	50	(0)
Teams managed
2006	HamKam
2007–2010	Lillestrøm (goalkeeping coach)
2010–	Norway (goalkeeping coach)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Frode Grodås (born 24 October 1964) is a Norwegian football coach and former national team goalkeeper originally from Hornindal in Sogn og Fjordane.^[1] Capped 50 times for his country,^[3] he participated at the 1998 FIFA World Cup as well as being an unused substitute at the 1994 FIFA World Cup.

Playing career

During his career he played for several Norwegian clubs. After his ten year spell^[4] at Lillestrøm he spent six years abroad, in England, Germany and Spain. He won the English FA Cup in 1997 with Chelsea,^[1] keeping a clean sheet in a 2–0 win in the final. He rounded off his career with Norwegian Division One team Hønefoss.

Grodås was last capped in 2002, aged 37 years and 318 days, and is the fourth oldest player at the Norwegian national team.^[5]

Coaching career

He has education from the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences.^[6] After retiring as a player, Grodås received the highest level of football coach education in Norway and took over HamKam from 1 December 2005. However, Grodås couldn't deliver the results, and Ham-Kam was relegated. Grodås was fired on 7 November 2006.

In December 2006, Grodås signed a three-year contract with Lillestrøm as a goalkeeper-coach. Grodås is then back in what he regards as his home club. He has also acted as the third-choice goalkeeper for the club. In June 2007 Lillestrøm's first-choice goalkeeper Heinz Müller received a two match suspension after hitting Geir Ludvig Fevang with his left knee. As a result of this, Grodås sat on the substitute bench as backup goalie during the Tippeliga-match against Sandefjord later that month. He returned to the bench in August 2007 after an injury to Müller.

After Lillestrøm manager Tom Nordlie had resigned on 29 May 2008, Grodås stepped in as caretaker together with former Chelsea teammate Erland Johnsen.

In 2010, Grodås ended his term with Lillestrøm in a mutual agreement and took over as goalkeeper-coach for the Norwegian national team.

Personal

Grodås' son, Victor Grodås, is also a footballer, playing for Hødd from Ulsteinvik.^[7]

Statistics

Club

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International

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Honours

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Frode Grodås.

• Frode Grodås – FIFA competition record
• Premier League profile

v t e Norway squad – 1994 FIFA World Cup 1 Thorstvedt 2 Halle 3 Johnsen 4 Bratseth (c) 5 Bjørnebye 6 J. Flo 7 Mykland 8 Leonhardsen 9 Fjørtoft 10 Rekdal 11 Jakobsen 12 Grodås 13 By Rise 14 Nilsen 15 Løken 16 Sørloth 17 Eggen 18 Håland 19 Strand 20 Berg 21 Rushfeldt 22 Bohinen Coach: Olsen

v t e Norway squad – 1998 FIFA World Cup 1 Grodås (c) 2 Halle 3 Johnsen 4 Berg 5 Bjørnebye 6 Solbakken 7 Mykland 8 Leonhardsen 9 T. Flo 10 Rekdal 11 Jakobsen 12 Myhre 13 Baardsen 14 Heggem 15 Eggen 16 J. Flo 17 H. Flo 18 Østenstad 19 Hoftun 20 Solskjær 21 Riseth 22 Strand Coach: Olsen