Eirik Skjælaaen
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 Eirik Skjælaaen. | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 14 October 1974 | ||
| Place of birth | Bergen, Norway | ||
| Position(s) | midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Bergen Nord | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| –1991 | Bergen Nord | ||
| 1992–1999 | Brann | 40 | (7) |
| 1998 | → Haugesund (loan) | 3 | (0) |
| 1999–2003 | Fyllingen | ||
| International career | |||
| 1990 | Norway U15 | 1 | (1) |
| 1991 | Norway U16 | 2 | (0) |
| 1992 | Norway U17 | 6 | (0) |
| 1993 | Norway U18 | 3 | (0) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Eirik Skjælaaen (born 14 October 1974) is a retired Norwegian football midfielder.
A youth player in Bergen Nord FK, he was among others offered a scholarship from a university in Colorado.[1] He represented Norway as a youth international.[2] In 1992 he joined the largest club in Bergen, SK Brann.[3] He appeared for the first team from 1995 on, and following a 1995 season with ample playing opportunities he featured more scarcely in 1996 and 1997 and not at all in 1998.[2]
In late July 1998 a quintet was axed from the Brann squad, being demoted to the junior team lest they found another club: Geir Hasund, Eirik Skjælaaen, Gunnar Norebø, Morten Pettersen and André Herfindal.[4] A week later Skjælaaen signed for FK Haugesund on loan.[5] After a lengthy contract dispute also involving the players' trade union, Skjælaaen was finally released in April 1999 and commenced a long stint in Fyllingen.[6][7]
