Arvid Ingar Knutsen (3 March 1944 – 4 January 2009) was a Norwegian football player and coach.
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, he joined
Viking FK
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from
Stavanger IF
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In the 1980's and 1990's they played in the top Norwegian division and have won two Norwegian championships and ...
in 1961, and made his senior team debut in 1963. With Viking he won the
Norwegian First Division
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in
1972
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,
1973
Events January
* January 1 – The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark 1973 enlargement of the European Communities, enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union.
* January 14 - The 16-0 19 ...
,
1974
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and
1975
It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe.
Events
January
* January 1 – Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...
, and also took bronze medals in
1968
Events January–February
* January 1968, January – The I'm Backing Britain, I'm Backing Britain campaign starts spontaneously.
* January 5 – Prague Spring: Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Cze ...
and
1971 *
The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses (Solar eclipse of February 25, 1971, February 25, Solar eclipse of July 22, 1971, July 22 and Solar eclipse of August 20, 1971, August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 1971 lunar eclip ...
. He played for Viking 396 times, scoring 117 goals. From 1976 he coached the team.
Outside of his sporting career, Knutsen worked as a high school teacher at
Stavanger Cathedral School
Stavanger Cathedral School (''Norwegian language, Norwegian: Stavanger katedralskole'') is an upper secondary school in the city of Stavanger, Rogaland county, Norway. It is spread over two areas; the traditional Kongsgård and the school's new b ...
. He took his education at the
University of Bergen
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in 1969 and at the
Norwegian School of Sport Sciences
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in 1981. He married in 1974, and had two daughters.
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In March 2008 he was diagnosed with ]brain tumor
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. Operated at Haukeland, he learned that he suffered from terminal cancer, and he died in January 2009.[
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References
1944 births
2009 deaths
Norwegian men's footballers
Footballers from Stavanger
Men's association football forwards
Stavanger IF Fotball players
Viking FK players
Norwegian football managers
Viking FK managers
University of Bergen alumni
Norwegian School of Sport Sciences alumni
Norwegian educators
Deaths from brain cancer in Norway
20th-century Norwegian sportsmen
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