Espen Olsen (born 13 March 1979) is a retired Norwegian footballer. He was appointed manager of

Strømmen IF Strømmen Idrettsforening is a Norwegian sports club from Strømmen. It has sections for association football, football, sport of athletics, athletics and Artistic gymnastics, gymnastics, and formerly had sections for bandy, orienteering, skiing, ...

ahead of the 2015 season. Ahead of the 2019 season he went on to

HamKam Hamarkameratene (), often abbreviated to HamKam or Ham-Kam, is a Norwegian professional football club based in the town of Hamar. The club was founded in 1918, originally under the name Freidig. HamKam were most recently promoted to the Elites ...

as director of sports. He played for

Lørenskog is a Municipalities of Norway, municipality in Akershus Counties of Norway, county, Norway. A suburb of Oslo, it is part of the Oslo urban area and the Districts of Norway, traditional region of Romerike. The administrative centre of the municipa ...

, Stabæk,

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Sogndal Sogndal is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestland Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is located on the northern shore of the Sognefjorden in the Districts of Norway, traditional district of Sogn. The village of Hermansv ...

and

Strømmen Strømmen is a town in Lillestrøm municipality, Akershus county, Norway. It is about twenty kilometers east of Oslo, and considered part of Greater Oslo. It has around 11,400 residents. The town has its origins from floating lumber and sawmills ...

. He also played two matches for

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, against

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and

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in January 2006.Norway International Matches - Details 2006
- from the

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Career statistics

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External links

Player profile at hamkam.noPlayer profile at sogndalfotball.no
1979 births Living people Footballers from Oslo Norwegian men's footballers Eliteserien players Norwegian First Division players Norway men's international footballers Men's association football forwards Strømmen IF players Hamarkameratene players Stabæk Fotball players IK Start players Sogndal Fotball players Norwegian football managers Strømmen IF managers Hamarkameratene non-playing staff {{Norway-footy-forward-stub