Full name Tor Thodesen Role Football player Name Tor Thodesen | Years Team Place of birth Notteroy, Norway Height 1.74 m | |
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Date of birth (1966-03-03) 3 March 1966 (age 49) 2000–2003 Brann (Assistant Coach) | ||
Tor Thodesen (born 3 March 1966) is the assistant coach of the Emirati football club Baniyas. In 2006, he was awarded the "Coach of the year" award by his colleagues, for his work in Sandefjord.
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Early years
Thodesen began his coaching career as a goalkeeper coach in Lyn in 1990. In 1994, he started working for Vålerenga, where he worked to 1998. Between 1998 and 2002, he was Teitur Thordarson's assistant coach in Flora Tallinn, Estonia and Brann.
Sandefjord Fotball
Thodesen coached Norheimsund and won promotion to the Second Division with the small club. In 2005, Thodesen took over Sandefjord, and led the club to its first promotion to Tippeligaen in his first season, after a very dramatical last round in the 2005 Norwegian First Division, where Moss were beaten 4-3. Though thought upon by most Norwegian football experts, as the weakest team in the 2006 Norwegian Premier League, Sandefjord managed to retain their spot in Tippeligaen with a 9th place, and qualified to the 2006 Norwegian Football Cup Final for the first time in the history of the club.
The following season, Sandefjord won 5 of 30 league matches and werewere relegated to the First Division. Thodesen got fired on 7 May 2008, the day after a humiliating loss to Notodden took Sandefjord to a 15th place in Adeccoligaen.
FK Tønsberg
On 31 Oktober 2008, Thodesen signed for the Second Division club FK Tønsberg, and the goal was promotion to the First Division. After two years, he left FK Tønsberg stating that "the current economic situation in the club does not allow a full time coach".
Moss FK
Thodesen was hired as the head coach of Second Division side Moss ahead of the 2011 season.