Arne Brustad
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| Date of birth | 14 April 1912 | ||||||||||
| Place of birth | Oslo, Norway | ||||||||||
| Date of death | 22 August 1987 (aged 75) | ||||||||||
| Place of death | Oslo, Norway | ||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||
| 1930–1948 | Lyn | ||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||
| 1935–1946 | Norway | 33 | (17) | ||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||
Arne Brustad (14 April 1912 – 22 August 1987) was a Norwegian footballer. He is regarded as one of the country's best players of all time.
Career
[edit]Brustad was an outside-left for Lyn. He won 33 caps for Norway, and scored 17 international goals.[1][2] He was a member of Norway's "Bronze Team" from the 1936 Olympics.[3]
Brustad, who made his international debut in 1935,[1] was one of the star players of the Berlin Olympics, where he scored five goals in four matches, including all three goals in Norway's 3–2 win against Poland in the third-place match.[4]
In 1938, Brustad was a member of Norway's World Cup team. Norway were knocked out in the first round by eventual champions Italy after extra time by a score of 2–1. Brustad scored the Norwegian goal shortly before the end of normal time, and also added a second a few minutes later, but this goal was controversially disallowed for offside. Later the same year, Brustad was named in the "Rest of Europe XI" that played England at Highbury.[5]
At club level, Brustad played for Lyn from 1930 to 1948, winning the Norwegian Cup in 1945 and 1946.
Honours
[edit]Norway
- Summer Olympics bronze medal: 1936
Lyn
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Arne Brustad national team profile". fotball.no (in Norwegian). Norwegian Football Federation. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
- ^ "Arne Brustad". Archived from the original on 28 July 2012. Retrieved 3 November 2011.
- ^ Holm, Jan. "Arne Brustad". In Bolstad, Erik (ed.). Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
- ^ "Arne Brustad". Olympedia. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
- ^ "englandstats.com | 220 - England 3-0 The Rest of Europe, Wednesday, 26th October 1938".
External links
[edit]- Arne Brustad at databaseOlympics.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 8 March 2007)
- Arne Brustad at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Arne Brustad at the Norwegian Football Federation (in Norwegian)
- Arne Brustad at Soccerway.com
- Arne Brustad at WorldFootball.net
- Arne Brustad at National-Football-Teams.com
- Arne Brustad at kicker (in German)
- Arne Brustad at FBref.com
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- 1912 births
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- Norwegian men's footballers
- Norway men's international footballers
- Lyn Fotball players
- 1938 FIFA World Cup players
- Footballers at the 1936 Summer Olympics
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- Olympic bronze medalists for Norway
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