Guro Pettersen

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Guro Pettersen
Personal information
Date of birth (1991-08-22) 22 August 1991 (age 32)
Place of birth Tromsø, Norway
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
 Werder Bremen
Number 32
Youth career
Fløya
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2008–2012 Fløya 30 (0)
2012–2013 Stabæk 4 (0)
2014–2015 Vålerenga 34 (0)
2016–2017 Stabæk 2 (0)
2017 → Fortuna Hjørring (loan) 0 (0)
2017 → Arna-Bjørnar (loan) 1 (0)
2018–2019 Vålerenga 20 (0)
2020–2021 Piteå 28 (1)
2022–2024 Vålerenga 25 (0)
2024– Werder Bremen 0 (0)
International career‡
2007–2008 Norway U17 11 (0)
2008–2010 Norway U19 11 (0)
2011–2014 Norway U23 8 (0)
2022– Norway 7 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 16:35, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 9 July 2023 (UTC)

Guro Pettersen (born 22 August 1991) is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Frauen-Bundesliga club Werder Bremen. She has represented Norway internationally in youth teams and made her debut for the Norway national team on 7 April 2022 at the age of 30. [1]

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Club career

Pettersen started her career in Fløya in 2008, moving south in 2012 to Stabæk and Vålerenga (two periods in each). Between 2007 and 2014 she also played for Norwegian age-specific national teams. [2]

She first got national media attention, when tweeting that she should show the Stabæk manager "some of my other qualities", in order to dethrone Ingrid Hjelmseth as first-choice goalkeeper. The tweet alluded to the Stabæk manager allegedly having a romantic affair with one of the other players. According to the reports, Pettersen got this attention unwillingly because she was hacked. [3] [4] She was immediately approached by men's magazines to do photo shoots. [5] She later alleged that the hosts of a football podcast she was guesting, asked her if she had ever slept with a male professional footballer. The podcast was never aired. Pettersen participated in debates on the gender inequality in football. [6]

In the winter of 2017, during the Norwegian off-season, she was loaned out to Danish club Fortuna Hjørring for the remainder of the 2016–17 Elitedivisionen. [7] She was benched twice in the 2016–17 UEFA Women's Champions League, but did not make a mark in Hjørring [8] and was loaned out to Arna-Bjørnar for the remainder of 2017. [9]

Ahead of the 2020 season, she joined Swedish club Piteå. She decided on the move in order to fight her way onto the Norway national team. She was called up several times in the 2010s, but last in 2015, before Martin Sjögren took over as head coach. She was eventually called up to the national team in September 2020. [10] In 2010 and 2021 she was benched club times for the national team. [8]

In May 2021 Pettersen scored a goal for Piteå in open play, clearing the ball from the midfield. At the end of the season she was given the Goal of the Year award in the 2021 Damallsvenskan. At the time, the Twitter video of the goal had been watched 100,000 times. [11] She did however leave Piteå after the season, to commence her third spell in Vålerenga. [12]

On 1 February 2024, Pettersen joined Frauen-Bundesliga club Werder Bremen. [13] Werder Bremen signed her as a replacement for Catalina Pérez who had sustained a long-term injury. [13]

International career

Pettersen made her senior team debut on 7 April 2022. [1] On 19 June 2023, she was included in the 23-player Norwegian squad for the FIFA Women's World Cup 2023. [14]

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References

  1. 1 2 Fotballforbund, Norges. "Guro Pettersen - Profil". fotball.no - Norges Fotballforbund (in Norwegian). Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  2. ↑ Guro Pettersen at the Norwegian Football Federation (in Norwegian)
  3. ↑ Eidissen, Lars (8 October 2012). "Skapte Twitter-storm etter sex-melding". iTromsø (in Norwegian). Hanssen, Kine. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
  4. ↑ Stokstad, Morten (8 October 2012). "Lagvenninnene sto bak Stabæk-keeperens sex-tweet" (in Norwegian). TV 2. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
  5. ↑ Pettersen, Tord Olander (9 October 2012). "Keeper-Guro ønskes som lettkledd forsidepike". Nordlys (in Norwegian). Retrieved 1 January 2022.
  6. ↑ Strøm, Petter (28 December 2017). "– Du føler deg som en idiot når programlederne spør hvem du har hatt sex med" (in Norwegian). NRK. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
  7. ↑ Eilertsen, Tobias Stein (3 February 2017). "Guro Pettersen klar for Champions League-klubb". iTromsø (via Aftenposten) (in Norwegian). Retrieved 1 January 2022.
  8. 1 2 Guro Pettersen at Soccerway
  9. ↑ "Hun er rødtrøyenes nye keeper". Bygdanytt (in Norwegian). 8 July 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
  10. ↑ Eilertsen, Tobias Stein (7 September 2020). "Guro (29) fra Tromsø tilbake på landslaget for første gang på fem år: – Viser at man aldri må gi opp". iTromsø (via Adresseavisen) (in Norwegian). Retrieved 1 January 2022.
  11. ↑ Warland, Jone (16 November 2021). "Norsk keeper vant årets mål i Sverige: – Tenkte denne kommer til å gå viralt" (in Norwegian). TV 2. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
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