Roger Nilsen
Roger Nilsen during a show game against Liverpool
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| Personal information | |||
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| Date of birth | 8 August 1969 | ||
| Place of birth | Tromsø, Norway | ||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Playing position | Defender | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Kvaløysletta | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1987–1988 | Tromsø | 3 | (0) |
| 1989–1993 | Viking | 90 | (11) |
| 1993 | → 1. FC Köln (loan) | 10 | (0) |
| 1993–1999 | Sheffield United | 166 | (0) |
| 1999 | Tottenham Hotspur | 2 | (0) |
| 1999–2000 | Grazer AK | 13 | (0) |
| 2000–2001 | Molde | 20 | (2) |
| 2002–2003 | Bryne | 24 | (0) |
| Total | 329 | (13) | |
| National team | |||
| 1989–1992 | Norway U21 | 19 | (2) |
| 1990–2000 | Norway | 32 | (3) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2006 | Stavanger | ||
| 2007–2010 | Viking (assistant) | ||
| 2014– | Fløya (women) | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Roger Nilsen (born 8 August 1969 in Tromsø) is a Norwegian football coach and former defender. He played 32 matches and scored three goals for Norway.
Nilsen played for the Norwegian clubs Tromsø, Viking, Molde and Bryne, and spent time abroad at 1. FC Köln, Sheffield United, Tottenham Hotspur and Grazer AK. He has later worked as assistant coach at Viking.
His career began in Tromsø, but it was after he moved on to Viking that he became established, winning the Norwegian Premier League in 1991. In his four seasons at Viking, Nilsen successfully became a regular in Norway's U21 team, and won his first senior cap in 1990. He was loaned to 1. FC Köln, and was put up for sale towards the end of the 1993 season.
Having already signed Norwegian team-mate Jostein Flo, Sheffield United boss Dave Bassett added Nilsen in November 1993 for the fee of £500,000, beating Aberdeen to his signature. Nilsen joined as the club fought unsuccessfully against relegation from the Premier League, and was a regular at left-back.
A popular figure at Bramall Lane, Nilsen played six seasons under five different managers, with a number of games at centre-back - particularly after United switched to a wing-back formation in 1997/98. He started the 1997 playoff final defeat at Wembley against Crystal Palace, and United's defeat to Newcastle in the FA Cup semi-final in 1998. It was in that cup-run where Nilsen had arguably his most memorable moment, during the quarter-final penalty shootout win over Coventry City. Never scoring for the Blades, and with Gareth Taylor having missed the first United penalty, Nilsen stepped up to convert the 2nd - powering the ball past Steve Ogrizovic to put the Blades 1-0 up.
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