Roar Strand

Roar Strand (born 2 February 1970) is a Norwegian football player. He played as a midfielder at the Norwegian club Rosenborg. Strand was capped 42 times for the Norwegian national team. He is the player with the fourth-highest number of appaerances in the Norwegian top division. He has won the Norwegian top division 16 times and the Norwegian Football Cup five times, and he has scored goals in 21 consecutive top flight seasons.

Roar Strand
Personal information
Date of birth (1970-02-02) 2 February 1970
Place of birth Trondheim, Norway
Height 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1989–2010 Rosenborg 416 (79)
1993 → Molde (loan) 23 (9)
2013–2015 Mosvik 11 (4)
2016– Melhus 14 (8)
Total 464 (100)
National team
1994–2003 Norway 42 (4)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Career

Club

Strand was born in Trondheim and played for Rosenborg his whole career, except for the 1993 season when he was loaned out to Molde FK, from he made his debut in 1989 till he retired in 2010. He mostly played as midfielder but as an allrounder he also played as winger and wingback.

Strand won the Norwegian top division 16 times (11 consecutive) as well as the Norwegian Football Cup five times with Rosenborg. He participated in the UEFA Champions League 11 times with Rosenborg and played 71 Champions League matches and 100 matches including the qualification matches. He is third on the list of most appearances in the Norwegian Premier Division.[1]

He is looked upon as a hero among supporters of Rosenborg because he has always been loyal to the club without having played abroad where the salaries are higher. He is also highly respected among both players and fans of other Norwegian clubs. The number 6 jersey he used in Rosenborg was retired in his honor. This is the only time Rosenborg has retired a jersey number.

Roar Strand has played over 400 matches in the Norwegian Tippeliga. Match number 400 was against HamKam on Sunday 21 September 2008. Sunday 19 April 2009 he played match number 600 for Rosenborg BK. That includes Norwegian top division, Norwegian Cup, European cups and Royal League.[2]

Strand shares a European record with Manchester United's Ryan Giggs of scoring in 21 consecutive top flight seasons. That equals Pelé, but is behind Romario, who scored in 23 consecutive seasons.[3]

International

Strand played for various youth teams between 1986 and 1989 before he was called up to the Norwegian U-21 side in 1990, where he played ten games and scored six goals.

In 1994, he was called up to the squad for the 1994 World Cup in the United States, but he did not play. His debut came on 5 June in a 2–0 loss against Sweden in the preparation for the World Cup.

Strand played in the 1998 World Cup in France and in the 2000 European Football Championship in Belgium and the Netherlands. He retired from the national team in 2003, despite pressure for him to carry on.

Strand is one of only 19 players in Champions League history to have made 100 or more appearances in the competition for the same club.

He played 42 games and scored four goals for Norway.[4]

Career statistics

Statistics accurate as of 1 November 2009

Club performance League Cup Continental Total
SeasonClubLeague AppsGoals AppsGoals AppsGoals AppsGoals
Norway League Norwegian Cup Europe Total
1989RosenborgTippeligaen1202010150
19901966020276
19912234021284
19921713110212
1993Molde23962--2911
1994Rosenborg2265142319
19952348082396
199623330101364
19972323184347
1998231242813515
199913430121285
200017510103288
200125822813511
20021923070292
20031825471307
200423441101376
20052342291347
200618350--233
20071921190303
20082041170295
20092212020261
20101532020163
Total Norway 43988751812719642125

* Note: European games overlap Norwegian seasons, but in these statistic for example 1999-2000 European season is included in 1999 Norwegian season, even though some games were played in February and March.

Honours

Club
Rosenborg BK

Individual

References
  1. "Flest kamper" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 28 November 2015.
  2. "Roar i 600" (in Norwegian). Rosenborg BK. Archived from the original on 20 April 2009. Retrieved 20 April 2009.
  3. Ashdown, John (16 September 2009). "Is Ryan Giggs a goalscoring record breaker?". London: guardian.co.uk. Retrieved 1 November 2009.
  4. http://www.home.no/greenriver/players/strand.html
  5. http://www.rbkweb.no/statistikk/tidligere.shtml
  6. "Mestvinnende spillere" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 2 November 2010.
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