Kristin Lie (born 13 December 1978) is a Norwegian

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who played as a striker for Egge. She was also capped while playing for

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Career

Lie was born in

Steinkjer Municipality or is a municipality in Trøndelag Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Innherad Districts of Norway, region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Steinkjer (town), town of Steinkjer which is located on the inne ...

and grew up in

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in Nord Trøndelag county, where she started her football career with three local clubs, Namdalseid,

Beitstad Beitstad () is a village in Steinkjer Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The village is located along the Beitstadsundet strait at the end of the Beitstadfjorden at the inner end of the Trondheimsfjord, about southwest of the village o ...

and

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. She joined

Trondheims-Ørn Rosenborg Ballklub Kvinner (previously known as Sportsklubben Trondheims-Ørn) is a Norwegian women's professional football club in Trondheim, Trøndelag. History The club was founded as a multi-sports club on May 18, 1917, and became a mem ...

in 1999. Lie was the team's top scorer in four consecutive seasons from 2006 to 2009 and also became top scorer in the

2007 Toppserien The 2007 season of the ''Toppserien'', the highest women's football (soccer) league in Norway, began on 21 April 2007 and ended on 3 November 2007. 22 games were played with 3 points given for wins and 1 for draws. Number eleven and twelve were re ...

. With Trondheims-Ørn, Lie won the

Toppserien The Toppserien is the top level of women's association football in Norway. It was founded in 1984. History Women's league football was introduced on a county basis in 1977. These leagues acted as qualification for the regional (South) league in ...

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and

2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

, and the

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in 1999, 2001 and 2003. The team also became runner-up in the Toppserien in 1999, 2004 and 2006, as well as in the 2010 Norwegian Women's Cup. Lie signed a two-year contract extension to continue with Trondheims-Ørn in February 2012, and after 15 seasons with the club she played her last match at home when she got seven minutes as a substitute against

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in October 2013. Her last match before her retirement from top football was the last match of the

2013 Toppserien The 2013 Toppserien was the 30th season of top-tier women's football in Norway. A total of 12 teams are contesting the league, ten returning from the 2012 season and the two teams promoted from the First Division, Avaldsnes Avaldsnes is a vil ...

season, away against

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. For Norway, Lie played 12 matches and scored seven goals for the Under-21 team between 1999 and 2001. In 2007, the same year as she became top goalscorer in the Toppserien, she made her debut for the senior national team against

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. She was a member of the Norwegian squad for the 2009 UEFA Women's European Championship, and played a total of 16 matches for the

, scoring one goal, between 2007 and 2009.

References

Profile at club site
1978 births Living people Norwegian women's footballers 21st-century Norwegian sportswomen Norway women's international footballers SK Trondheims-Ørn players Women's association football forwards Sportspeople from Steinkjer Footballers from Trøndelag {{Norway-women-footy-bio-stub