Espen Olsen (born 13 March 1979) is a retired

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footballer. He was appointed manager of

Strømmen IF Strømmen Idrettsforening is a Norwegian sports club from Strømmen. It has sections for football, athletics and gymnastics, and formerly had sections for bandy, orienteering, skiing, speed skating, swimming among other sports. History The club w ...

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

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

as director of sports. He played for

Lørenskog is a Municipalities of Norway, municipality in Akershus in Viken (county), Viken 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 administrati ...

, Stabæk,

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Sogndal Sogndal is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located on the northern shore of the Sognefjorden in the traditional district of Sogn. The village of Hermansverk is the administrative center of Sogndal municipality. Other villages i ...

and

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. 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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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