Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 19 February 1965 | ||
Position(s) | striker | ||
Youth career | |||
Skeid | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
–1996 | Skeid | ||
1997–2002 | Årvoll | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Jan Petter Olsen (born 19 February 1965) is a retired Norwegian football striker.
He hails from Sinsen, Oslo and started playing for Skeid as a child. He also played bandy for Skeid and ishockey he have played A-football,A-Ishockey and A-bandy for the same club Skeid, and when approaching adulthood he concentrated on that sport. [1] [2] He was capped three times for Norway in 1989. [3]
Olsen started playing football again at the age of 22, and scored the goal that secured Skeid's promotion from the 1995 1. divisjon. [4] He had then played bandy for Røa as late as the Norwegian Bandy Premier League 1994–95. [5]
In the 1996 Eliteserien he played 18 games for Skeid. [6] Ahead of the 1997 season he joined. Falkirk . Then Årvoll, [7] where he played for several years. [6]