Nora Neset Gjøen

Nora Gjøen-Gjøsæter (born Nora Neset Gjøen; 20 February 1992) is a Norwegian football goalkeeper who plays in the Toppserien league for Arna-Bjørnar. She plays for the Norway women's national football team.

Nora Gjøen-Gjøsæter

Personal information
Full name	Nora Gjøen-Gjøsæter[1]
Birth name	Nora Neset Gjøen[2]
Date of birth	(1992-02-20) 20 February 1992 (age 32)
Place of birth	Bergen, Norway[3]
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team	Arna-Bjørnar
Number	99
Youth career
1998–2007	Øygard
College career
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2013	Florida Gators
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2008	IL Gneist
2009	Arna-Bjørnar
2010–2011	LSK Kvinner	29	(0)
2012	Sandviken	17	(0)
2013	Kolbotn	8	(0)
2014–2015	LSK Kvinner	20	(0)
2016	Grei Kvinner
2017–2020	Sandviken	67	(0)
2021–2022	Grand Bodø	4	(0)
2023–	Arna-Bjørnar	0	(0)
International career‡
2013–	Norway	3	(0)
Medal record Women's football Representing  Norway UEFA Women's Championship 2013 Sweden Team
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 18 May 2024 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 14:16, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

Gjøen first came to national attention in December 2007 as a 15-year-old when she escaped with her life after being trapped by smoke and flames in a fire that destroyed her family home on the island of Sotra in the space of only a few minutes, by jumping from a third-floor window at a height of over seven metres. Her goalkeeper's instincts were said to have helped her to survive the fall with a relatively minor injury, a broken vertebra without nerve damage (no one else was injured).^[4] The press coverage was summarised in English.^[5]

Club Football

After making a full recovery she returned to top-level football a year later, as a junior keeper for Arna-Bjørnar, and in December 2009 she joined LSK Kvinner FK in Oslo as the club's reserve keeper.^[6] She made her Toppserien debut on June 12, 2010 against the Norwegian champions, Røa, and then went on to play every match for LSK Kvinner during 2011. In 2012, she moved back to Bergen as first-keeper for IL Sandviken, a club her family had been involved with for many years.^[7]

With Gjøen as their keeper Sandviken finished the 2012 Toppserien season in sixth place, their best for many years. At the end of the season she announced she would spend the spring semester of 2013 at the University of Florida at Gainesville, from where she returned to play in the Toppserien for Kolbotn from 5 May until 15 June. At the end of 2013 Gjøen signed a contract to play for LSK Kvinner.

International Football

Gjøen was Norway's first-choice goalkeeper in the 2012 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup competition, held in Japan during August and September, 2012. She played in all Norway's matches. The team beat Canada and Argentina in the group stage but lost to North Korea, finishing in second place in the group. In the quarter-finals they were beaten by the eventual beaten finalists, Germany.

From summer 2007 until 16 July 2012 Nora Gjøen played 27 matches in goal for Norway's international youth teams from Under-15 to Under-23.^[8] The four matches with the Under-20s in Japan in August referred to above bring the total to 31.

In September 2012 Norway qualified for the UEFA Women's Euro 2013 by beating Belgium and Iceland, and the team produced a short video in which Gjøen rapped the story of the team's qualification campaign in Norwegian and English.^[9]

Gjøen joined the Norwegian squad that travelled to Sweden to play in the Euros as the third goalkeeper, but she became the first reserve after the second keeper suffered an injury, and Gjøen sat on the bench as Norway's reserve goalkeeper in the final at Friends Arena, which Norway lost 1–0 to Germany.^[10]

References

1. Nora Neset Gjøen at the Norwegian Football Federation (in Norwegian)
2. "List of Players – Norway" (PDF). FIFA. 4 August 2014. p. 14. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 August 2014. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
3. "Norway Mediaguide 2013" (PDF) (in Norwegian). Football Association of Norway. p. 10. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
4. Frank Haugsbø (2 January 2008). "Hoppet 7 meter rett ned og brakk ryggen". VG.
5. "Norwegian players". womensfootball.eu.
6. LSK Kvinner player bio (in Norwegian)
7. IL Sandviken. "IL Sandviken – Spillerstall". ilsandviken.no.
8. "Nora Neset Gjøen". fotball.no – Norges Fotballforbund.
9. Norges nye hit? Fotballjentene viser skjulte "talenter". YouTube. 17 September 2012.
10. Burke, Chris (28 July 2013). "Angerer the hero as Germany make it six in a row". uefa.com. UEFA. Retrieved 21 September 2014.

External links

• Nora Neset Gjøen on Twitter
• Nora Neset Gjøen – FIFA competition record (archived)
• Norwegian national team profile (in Norwegian)
• Florida Gators profile