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Ole Gunnar Solskjær KSO (born 26 February 1973) is a Norwegian professional football manager and former player who is currently the manager of Premier League club Manchester United. As a player, Solskjær played as a striker; he spent the majority of his career with Manchester United, and also played 67 times for the Norway national team.
Solskjær began his career in his native Norway with Clausenengen, for whom he scored 115 goals in 109 league appearances over five seasons, helping them earn promotion to the Norwegian Second Division in 1993, before moving to Molde, newly promoted to the Tippeligaen, for the 1995 season. His goals helped Molde to a second-place finish and qualification for the UEFA Cup. He joined Manchester United in July 1996 for a transfer fee of £1.5 million. Nicknamed "the Baby-faced Assassin", he played 366 times for United and scored 126 goals during a successful period for the club. He was regarded as a "super-sub" for his knack of coming off the substitute bench to score late goals. In injury time at the end of the 1999 UEFA Champions League Final, he scored the winning last-minute goal against Bayern Munich, with Manchester United having trailed 1–0 as the game passed 90 minutes, and winning the Treble for United. In 2007, Solskjær announced his retirement from football after failing to recover from a serious knee injury.
Honours
Player
Clausenengen
Manchester United
Manager
Manchester United Reserves
Lancashire Senior Cup: 2007–08
Manchester Senior Cup: 2008–09
Premier Reserve League North: 2009–10
Molde
Manchester United
UEFA Europa League runner-up: 2020–21
Individual
Kniksen Awards: Kniksen of the Year in 1996, Kniksen's honour award in 2007, Coach of the Year 2011, 2012
Peer Gynt Prize in 2009, for his efforts for football and philanthropy.