Einar "Jeja" Gundersen (20 September 1896 – 29 October 1962) was a Norwegian

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby ...

who played play as a

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for Odd. He is regarded as one of Norwegian football's first star players. He played 33 internationals for

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

, and his 26 international goals puts him second on the national team's all-time scoring list. His nickname Jeja means literally "Me Then", as that was what he wondered as a kid when he was not picked for the team. At club level, Gundersen scored more than 200 goals. He won the

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five times. He was also a member of the Norwegian team that played in the

1920 Olympics The 1920 Summer Olympics (french: Jeux olympiques d'été de 1920; nl, Olympische Zomerspelen van 1920; german: Olympische Sommerspiele 1920), officially known as the Games of the VII Olympiad (french: Jeux de la VIIe olympiade; nl, Spelen van ...

, and scored twice in the 3–1 win against

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's amateur side.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gundersen, Einar 1896 births 1962 deaths Norwegian footballers Association football forwards Norway international footballers Footballers at the 1920 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers of Norway Odds BK players FC Sète 34 players Norwegian expatriate footballers Norwegian expatriate sportspeople in France Expatriate footballers in France