Ulf Camitz (born 25 October 1960) is a retired

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and later manager. Playing for several modest teams in Sweden and Norway, he also played first-tier football for

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until they were relegated in

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. After one year in

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he travelled north to

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in 1995. Leading Lofoten as a player-manager to an unprecedented spell in the 1999 1. divisjon, he was sacked post-promotion for lacking formal qualifications. In 2000 he moved to

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as manager. In 2003 he coached

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and ahead of the 2007 season he took over

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's women's team. However, two days before the start of

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he resigned, needing to prioritize his civic job when the coaching job took too much of his working week. In 2017 he was declared an honorary member of FK Lofoten. In Strømsgodset too he is regarded as a club legend.

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