Erik Johannessen

Quick Facts

Full Name	Erik Johannessen
Occupation	Association Football Player
Date Of Birth	Mar 20, 1952(1952-03-20)
Age	72
Birthplace	Stavanger
Country	Norway
Birth City	Rogaland
Horoscope	Pisces

Erik Johannessen Biography

Erik Johannessen is one of the most popular and richest Association Football Player who was born on March 20, 1952 in Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway. Erik Johannessen (born 20 March 1952) is Erik Johannessen (born 20 March 1952) is a Norwegian former professional footballer who worked as a goalkeeper with Viking between the years 1971 between 1981 and 1983. He was the winner of the Norwegian league 6 times and earned 6 caps when playing for Norway. Johannessen has since been part of the Viking coaching staff as a goalkeeping coach.

Johannessen has two children, Josefine and Martine, and was also married to Brit Tone, who passed away from cancer in the year 2011. Just four days after his wife’s funeral and he suffered a massive tear in his aorta. Doctors said there was 50% of being able to survive, however Johannessen was able to recover after a 10-hour procedure within Haukeland Sykehus.

Johannessen was also a league winner with Viking in 1982 and 1979 He is also with his six victories the Viking player who has won the most championships ever. The last time he played with Viking was the loss of 2-9 to Brann in the final game of the season 1983. He played 245 league matches with Viking from 1971 to 1983. having played 501 matches for Viking and friendlies included He is the Viking player with the third highest number of games played for the club, just behind Svein Kvia as well as Sigbjorn Slinning.

Erik Johannessen Net Worth

Erik Johannessen is one of the richest Association Football Player from Norway. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Erik Johannessen 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Johannessen was born in Stavanger and made his debut with Viking in 1971. There, was soon Sverre Andersen’s replacement as their goalkeeper of his first choice. Johannessen was part of Viking’s golden era that was able to win 4 consecutive Norwegian league titles in 1972, 1975 and 1973 and was named ”Viking-player of the Year” in 1974 and in 1975. Johannessen also maintained his clean sheet for 672 minutes during the 1974 1. divisjon. In the final stages year 2012 this was still the record for the top league in Norway and is tied with Kenneth Udjus’ 557 minutes in 2011 and 2012 being the second longest clean sheet.

Johannessen played 11 games with his Norway in the under-19 squad between 1968 and prior to which he played eight matches with the under-21 squad between 1972 between 1972 and 1975. Johannessen made his first appearance with in the team’s seniors against Finland on May 15, 1975 and was also the only player to be capped six times for Norway.

Johannessen was working as Benny Lennartsson’s goalkeeping-coach at Viking in 1989 and 1990. He later worked as goalkeeping-coach at Hinna before he was coaching Viking’s youth-team. He was also working as a teacher at Kristianlyst Ungdomskole, but left this job when he replaced Kurt Hegre as Viking’s goalkeeping-coach ahead of the 2007 season. He quit the job in the coaching staff after the 2010 season, and joined Viking’s administrative staff before he returned to his teacher-job from 1 January 2012 and became Jørn Øvrebø’s assistant coach at Hinna in the 3. Divisjon.

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Erik Ranked on the list of most popular Association Football Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Norway. Erik Johannessen celebrates birthday on March 20 of every year.