Jan Frode Nornes
Jan Frode Nornes, 2009.
Personal information
Date of birth (1973-01-08) 8 January 1973
Place of birth Tønsberg, Norway
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 1+1⁄2 in)
Position(s) Centre-back
Team information
Current team
 Vålerenga (assistant manager)
Youth career
Flint
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Flint
–1998 Eik-Tønsberg
1999–2006 Odd Grenland 175 (4)
2006 → Strømsgodset (loan) 9 (0)
2007–2008 Sandefjord 10 (0)
International career
2000–2003 Norway 2 (0)
Managerial career
2008–2020 Odd (assistant)
2020 Odd (interim)
2020–2021 Odd
2023– Vålerenga (assistant)
2023 Vålerenga (interim)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Jan Frode Nornes (born 8 January 1973) is a Norwegian football coach and former player. He an assistant manager of Eliteserien club Vålerenga.

Career

He's played most of his career with Odd Grenland whom he joined in 1999, but after a shoulder-injury, he was loaned out to 1. divisjon club Strømsgodset autumn 2006. He helped Strømsgodset to promotion to Tippeligaen, and was offered a permanent contract with the team from Drammen, but chose to return home to Vestfold, and Sandefjord.

He previously played for Flint[1] and Eik, in his hometown Tønsberg.

Nornes has been capped 3 times for Norway.

After his retirement as a player, Nornes worked as an assistant coach at his former club Odd. He was the assistant coach of Dag-Eilev Fagermo for 12 years, before Fagermo left the club for Vålerenga in January 2020. Nornes was then promoted to head coach of Odd in March 2020.[2] He was sacked on 8 January 2022.[3] Ahead of the 2023 he was named as assistant manager of Vålerenga, working under his old superior Dag-Eilev Fagermo.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Næss, Pål A. (9 September 1994). "Ørn vil ha Robert og Jørn". Tønsbergs Blad (in Norwegian). p. 16.
  2. ↑ "Fagermos erstatter er klar: Nornes blir ny Odd-trener". VG (in Norwegian). 11 March 2020. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
  3. ↑ "Nornes ferdig som Odd-trener". VG (in Norwegian). 8 January 2022. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
  4. ↑ Skjærpe, Jørn H. (12 January 2022). "Nornes: – Dette er den største forskjellen på Vålerenga og Odd". Dagsavisen (in Norwegian). Retrieved 13 January 2023.
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