Ingeborg Hovland (born 3 October 1969) is a former Norwegian footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Klepp IL of the Toppserien. With the Norway women's national team, Hovland was an alternate for the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup[1] and won an Olympic gold medal in 2000.[2] She was named in Norway's squad for the 1997 and 2001 editions of the UEFA Women's Championship, as an understudy to Bente Nordby.
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| Full name | Ingeborg Hovland | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 3 October 1969 | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| Vard | |||||||||||||||||
| Skjold | |||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1988–2005 | Klepp | 512 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 1996–2001 | Norway | 11 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 27 September 2014 | |||||||||||||||||
Hovland scored twice in 512 games for Klepp. As of 2012 she was leading the club's all-time appearance list.[3] During her football career she was employed as a civil engineer.[4]
References edit
- ^ "Norges VM-tropp" (in Norwegian). Verdens Gang. 20 June 1999. Retrieved 27 September 2014.
- ^ "2000 Summer Olympics – Melbourne, Australia – Soccer" Archived 11 August 2012 at the Wayback Machine (Retrieved 16 May 2008)
- ^ "Adelskalender" (in Norwegian). Klepp IL. 5 February 2013. Retrieved 27 September 2014.
- ^ Våga, Finn E. (26 May 2001). "Best i forsvar" (in Norwegian). Aftenposten. Retrieved 27 September 2014.
External links edit
- Ingeborg Hovland – FIFA competition record (archived)
- Norwegian national team profile (in Norwegian)
- Ingeborg Hovland at FIFA (archived)
- Ingeborg Hovland at the Norway Football Association (in Norwegian)
- Ingeborg Hovland at FBref.com
- Ingeborg Hovland at Soccerdonna (in German)
- Ingeborg Hovland at Olympedia
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