Geirmund "Geddi" Brendesæter (born 22 March 1970) is a football defender from Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

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Club career

He played 13 seasons for Brann. His debut was on 1 June 1991, and he played his last match against Vålerenga in the last match of the season 2003. He played mostly as a right defender. During this period he also played 13 matches for the German team Arminia Bielefeld

Arminia Bielefeld

DSC Arminia Bielefeld is a German sports club from Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia. Arminia offers the sports of football, field hockey, figure skating and cue sports. The club has 11,394 members and the club colours are black, white and blue...

 in 1997, but returned to Brann to play the last half of the season. Geddi played in total 336 matches for Brann, but scored only 7 goals.

In the 2001 season he went to the media and asked the supporters if he should retire or not. The voting ended with 3525 votes to continue, and 3429 votes to retire. Eventually Geddi signed a new contract. In his last match for Brann, he was put on as a substitute a few minutes before the end, the crowd going wild as he entered the pitch. He was placed as a striker, the position which he had played in as a junior player, but had never been used in for Brann.

Cult status

Brendesæther, more commonly known as "Geddi", has been subject to a certain degree of idolizing by some of the supporters of SK Brann. This is due to his fierce lojality to the club, alongside his trademark right-flank raids. According to former Brann

Brann

Brann can refer to:* SK Brann is a Norwegian football club from the city of Bergen.* Brann stadion is a football stadium in Bergen, Norway.* EHS Brann is a direct marketing, data and digital communications group based in London and Cirencester.People:...

 captain and Aberdeen FC left-back Cato Guntveit

Cato Guntveit

Cato Guntveit was a Norwegian footballer who played for SK Brann the most of his career. He was the captain of Brann from 2004 until Brann coach Mons Ivar Mjelde decided Martin Andresen should take over the captaincy prior to the 2006 season. Guntveit played briefly for local club Fana before...

 the young Geddi consistently used to do the tunnel dribble on his opponents while setting the Tippeligaen

Tippeligaen

Tippeligaen is a Norwegian professional league for association football clubs. At the top of the Norwegian football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. The league is also unofficially known under its neutral name Eliteserien , although the name has never been official...

 alight with his firework displays and trademark haircut.

International career

Geddi also made 6 appearances for Norwegian national team

Norway national football team

The Norway national football team represents Norway in association football and is controlled by the Football Association of Norway, the governing body for football in Norway. Norway's home ground is Ullevaal Stadion in Oslo and their head coach is Egil Olsen...

 between 1993 and 1995.

External links

• Player profile - Brann club website
• Career stats - National Football Teams