Tone Haugen (born 6 February 1964) is a former Norwegian

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who played as a

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. With the Norway women's national team, Haugen won the

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and an Olympic bronze medal in

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. At club level she played for

SK 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 Norway, then joined Japanese L. League team Nikko Securities Dream Ladies on a professional contract. Haugen debuted for the Norwegian national team in 1984, and scored 19 goals in her 90

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. In 2000, Haugen took a job as

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club

Fortuna Ålesund AaFK Fortuna (formerly known as FK Fortuna Ålesund) is a Norway, Norwegian women's football (soccer), women's football club from Ålesund that currently competes in 1. divisjon (women), 1. divisjon, the second tier of Women's football in Norway, ...

Personal life

As an

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, she was in Norway's women's football team for the 2002

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. In 2014, she was working as a municipal

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Ålesund Municipality Ålesund (, sometimes spelled Aalesund in English) is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal County, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Sunnmøre and the centre of the Ålesund Region. The town of Ålesund is the administrative ce ...

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* * * * * * 1964 births Living people Norwegian women's footballers Footballers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers for Norway Olympic bronze medalists for Norway Olympic medalists in football 1991 FIFA Women's World Cup players 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup players Norway women's international footballers FIFA Women's World Cup–winning players Norwegian expatriate women's footballers Norwegian expatriate sportspeople in Japan SK Trondheims-Ørn players Fortuna Ålesund players Toppserien players Norwegian LGBTQ footballers Nikko Securities Dream Ladies players Nadeshiko League players Expatriate women's footballers in Japan Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics UEFA Women's Championship–winning players Women's association football midfielders Sportspeople from Namsos Footballers from Trøndelag Norwegian lesbian sportswomen 20th-century Norwegian sportswomen {{Norway-Olympic-medalist-stub