Ivar Rønningen

Ivar Rønningen
Personal information
Full name Ivar Rønningen
Date of birth (1975-02-13) 13 February 1975
Place of birth Lunner, Norway
Height 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Playing position Goalkeeper
Youth career
0000–1993 Lunner
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1994–1999 Vålerenga 3 (1)
1999 → Walsall (loan) 0 (0)
1999 → GKS Katowice (loan) 4 (0)
1999 → Grindvoll (loan) 8 (0)
1999 → Lillestrøm (loan) 2 (0)
2000–2004 Brann 79 (0)
2004–2005 Rosenborg 6 (0)
2006–2012 Ham-Kam 133 (1)
National team
1994 Norway G18 2 (0)
1998 Norway U-21 1 (0)
2002 Norway B 1 (0)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.


Ivar Rønningen (born 13 February 1975) is a Norwegian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Vålerenga, Brann, Rosenborg and HamKam. He also spent time on loan with Walsall, GKS Katowice and Lillestrøm. After playing professional football for almost 20 years, Rønningen retired after the 2012-season, and joined HamKam's coaching staff as a goalkeeper coach.

Career

Early years

Rønningen was born in Lunner[1] and played for the local club Lunner IL until he joined Vålerenga in 1994. He made his debut for Vålerenga in the 1997 Norwegian Football Cup match against Brann,[2] and became the first goalkeeper to score a goal in an official match, when he scored from the penalty spot in the 6–0 victory against Eik-Tønsberg.[3]

Rønningen did not get many chances for Vålerenga, and in the spring of 1999 he was loaned out to English club Walsall and Polish club GKS Katowice without success. It was the goalkeeper coach at Vålerenga, Tor Thodesen who arranged the deal with Katowice, but Rønningen returned from Poland because he didn't get the salary he was promised. When Rønningen returned to Norway, the only club who wanted to get Rønningen on loan was the Norwegian Third Division side Grindvoll. Lillestrøm needed a goalkeeper-reserve in the fall of 1999, and Thodesen tipped the club that Rønningen was available for loan.[4]

Brann

After Thodesen was hired as Teitur Thordarson's assistant in Brann ahead of the 2000 season, he brought Rønningen to the club. After a year as the second-choice goalkeeper, but got the chance when Magnus Kihlstedt was injured in the spring of 2001. Rønningen soon became the first choice at Brann, and in August 2001 he was called up to the Norwegian national team, two years after he was playing in the Third Division.[4] Rønningen was never capped for Norway,[5] but did play one match for Norway B against Romania in January 2002,[6] in addition to two matches for the under-21 team[1] and one match for the under-18 team.[5]

Rønningen scored a goal from the penalty spot in the 4–1 victory against Hovding in the second round of the 2002 Norwegian Football Cup. Brann was leading 3–1 and had been awarded a penalty kick, which Rønningen converted. Rønningen remained a regular at Brann, even though he was competing with the talented youngster Håkon Opdal, and played a total of 95 matches for the club, until he in the summer of 2004 transferred to rivals Rosenborg.[7]

Rosenborg

That he transferred to Rosenborg was quite a surprise, as they already had the goalkeepers Espen Johnsen and Alexander Lund Hansen . Rønningen was however not happy with the contract negotiation with Brann, and moved to Rosenborg where he received a bigger payment, even though he was supposed to be the third-choice goalkeeper. The young goalkeeper Lund Hansen was sent on loan to Fredrikstad FK so that he could play regularly,[8][9] and Rønningen remained the second-choice goalkeeper at Rosenborg, but did however play the first round of the 2005 Norwegian Football Cup against Orkla, where he scored one of the goals from the penalty spot in the 11–0 victory.[4]

HamKam

Rønningen moved to HamKam ahead of the 2006 season,[10] and was the first-choice goalkeeper until Jon Masalin became the preferred goalkeeper half-way through the 2008 season. Rønningen wanted to leave HamKam, but after Masalin was injured Rønningen again became the first choice.[11] Rønningen stayed at the club through two relegations, even though his payment was reduced from 1,2 M NOK at Rosenborg to 0,2 M NOK at the third tier.[10] He scored a goal on a penalty when HamKam won promotion back to the second tier with a 6–0 victory against Lørenskog in the decisive match of the 2010 season.[12]

According to the local newspaper Hamar Arbeiderblad, Rønningen was HamKam's best player in the 2011 season, and the 36-year-old decided to play for one more season, despite being called "father" by his younger team-mates.[13] He was however injured in the beginning of the next season, and he believed he had played his last match for HamKam, but when his replacement Gary Hogan was injured, Rønningen was again playing.[14] After playing for the club for seven seasons, Rønningen retired after the 2012 season and joined HamKam's coaching staff as a goalkeeper coach, where he was working the talented goalkeepers Lars Øvernes and Emil Holst.[15]

References

  1. 1 2 "Ivar Rønningen". altomfotball.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 12 January 2013.
  2. ↑ "Ivar Rønningen". vpn.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 12 January 2013.
  3. ↑ "Vålerenga vant 6–0 sist" (in Norwegian). Vålerenga Fotball. 19 May 2010. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
  4. 1 2 3 Vågenes, Hallgeir (9 August 2001). "Landslagsspiller på rekordtid" (in Norwegian). Verdens Gang. Retrieved 16 January 2013.
  5. 1 2 "Ivar Rønningen's profil". fotball.no. Football Association of Norway. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
  6. ↑ "Norge slo Romania" (in Norwegian). Verdens Gang. Norwegian News Agency. 24 January 2002. Retrieved 16 January 2013.
  7. ↑ "Spillerprofil: Ivar Rønningen" (in Norwegian). SK Brann. Retrieved 16 January 2013.
  8. ↑ "Tidligere spiller: Ivar Rønningen". RBKweb (in Norwegian). Retrieved 17 January 2013.
  9. ↑ "Ivar Rønningen". NRK Trøndelag (in Norwegian). 29 June 2004. Retrieved 17 January 2013.
  10. 1 2 Stensland, Rune (6 November 2010). "Gikk ned 1 mill. i lønn – fortsetter i HamKam" (in Norwegian). Fædrelandsvennen. Retrieved 17 January 2013.
  11. ↑ Hansen, Rune Steen (2 March 2009). "Var på vei bort" (in Norwegian). Hamar Arbeiderblad. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
  12. ↑ Frengstad, Jan Morten (23 October 2010). "Se de elleville jubelbildene av HamKam-opprykket" (in Norwegian). Østlendingen. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
  13. ↑ Hansen, Rune Steen (31 October 2011). "Ivar Rønningen tar ett år til i HamKam" (in Norwegian). Hamar Arbeiderblad. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
  14. ↑ Blystad, Arve H. (15 September 2012). "Ivar Rønningen var innstilt på at han ikke skulle spille mer" (in Norwegian). Hamar Arbeiderblad. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
  15. ↑ Blystad, Arve H. (6 November 2010). "Rønningen gleder seg til å forme to talenter" (in Norwegian). Hamar Arbeiderblad. Retrieved 17 January 2013.


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