Robin Berntsen (born 16 July 1970) is a Norwegian former
footballer
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Vålerenga IF
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Port Vale
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1996
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Career
Berntsen grew up in Nordbotn in Ramfjord and played football for Ramfjord IL from an early age until he was 14. In 1984, he began playing for the Tromsø ILyouth team, before he returned to Ramfjord in 1987. He joined
IF Fløya
Idrettsforeningen Fløya is a Norwegian football club from the city of Tromsø. The club was founded on 22 June 1922 and named after the Fløya mountain which overlooks Tromsø centre.
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in 1988 and returned to Tromsø IL as an apprentice two years later. In 1992, when he was living in Oslo, he joined
Vålerenga IF
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. After he moved back the following year, he played three seasons for Tromsdalen UIL before he again joined Tromsø in the Tippeligaen in 1996. In 1996, he also won the Norwegian Football Cup with Tromsø, as
European Cup Winners Cup
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games for the club. He played both legs of round two in a 3–2 win over Chelsea on 23 October 1997 and also played in the second leg, where they lost 7–1 at
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two weeks later, in which he was booked.
He joined
Port Vale
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Sunderland
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manager
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John Rudge, with Berntsen hoping to play in midfield rather than at full-back. He left the club at the end of the month and returned to Tromsø. He played his last game for Tromsø in October 2001, and retired in the following season due to an injury.
Personal life
Bernsten is married with three children: Sondre, Joakim, and Markus.
1996
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