Jørn Jamtfall
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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...
football
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
coach and a former goalkeeper. He spent most of his professional career, from 1994 to 2001, at Rosenborg BK, but was loaned out to Sogndal IL
Sogndal IL
Sogndal Idrettslag is a Norwegian alliance sports club from Sogndalsfjøra, Sogn og Fjordane. It has departments for association football, team handball, volleyball, track and field, orienteering, taekwondo, human swimming, powerlifting, speed skating, cross-country skiing, alpine skiing and...
in the last half of the 2001 season. He made one appearance for the 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...
, against South Korea in 1997.
He is often remembered for spectacular mistakes in several important matches, e.g. the Champions League match against Real Madrid in 2000.
He has currently a dual role as both a junior team coach for Rosenborg, and as goalkeeper coach for the 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...
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He is the father of Michael Kleppe Jamtfall
Michael Kleppe Jamtfall
Michael Kleppe Jamtfall is a Norwegian football player, currently playing for Rosenborg as a striker, although he mostly has been used on the right wing in his career. Jamtfall is able to play as a wingback too. He is the son of Jørn Jamtfall, a former goalkeeper turned coach for Rosenborg and...
, a talented winger
Winger (sport)
In certain sports, such as football, field hockey, ice hockey, handball, rugby union, lacrosse and rugby league, the term winger is the name of a position. It refers to positions on the extreme left and right sides of the pitch . In American football and Canadian football, the analogous position...
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