Tom Sundby is a footballer

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...

 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...

. A midfielder

Midfielder

A midfielder is an association football position. Some midfielders play a more defensive role, while others blur the boundaries between midfielders and forwards. The number of midfielders a team uses during a match may vary, depending on the team's formation and each individual player's role...

 who scored 6 goals in 39 caps for the 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...

, he participated in the 1984 Summer Olympics

Football at the 1984 Summer Olympics

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Born in Larvik

Larvik

is a city and municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Larvik. Larvik kommune - has about 41 364 inhabitants and covers 530 km2....

 Sundby followed in the footsteps of his father, Reidar Sundby, and began playing football in Larvik Turn. In 1981 he went to Lyn, and was brought to Lillestrøm

Lillestrøm S.K.

Lillestrøm Sportsklubb is a Norwegian football club from the city of Lillestrøm. It was founded in 1917, after the merger of two local football clubs. Their home ground is Åråsen Stadion, while the principal training ground is Lillestrøm stadion, or the indoor arena, LSK-Hallen...

 two seasons later as a replacement for Tom Lund

Tom Lund

Tom Lund is a former Norwegian football coach and striker, he is considered as perhaps Norway's greatest football player of all time....

, who they lost to retirement. Sundby won the league title with Lillestrøm in 1986, and went to play abroad in Heracles. He also played for three seasons with Iraklis F.C. in the Greek Super League.

During a 1988 international against Scotland

Scotland national football team

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 Sundby was seriously injured by a tackle from Steve Nicol

Steve Nicol

Stephen "Steve" Nicol is a Scottish former professional footballer. A utility player who played in the all-conquering Liverpool team of the 1980s, he was most recently coach of New England Revolution, and was the longest-tenured head coach in MLS to coach a single club.As a player, Nicol was a...

. Due to the injure Sundby was sidelined for two years, effectively ruining his professional career. In 1990 he did a comeback at Lyn, where he played for three seasons, finishing his career as one of the best players of the Norwegian league.

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