Andersen, Jorn

Club career

Andersen was born in the city of Fredrikstad , his career began in the local team Ostseden, where he played until 1982. Subsequently, he moved to Fredrikstad and scored 25 goals in 64 matches of the Norwegian Premier League . Before the 1985 season, the striker was sold to Volerenga . Andersen was able to score 23 goals in just 22 matches in the capital's team.

In 1985, the Norwegian signed the Nuremberg . In 78 matches, Andersen scored 28 goals, then he moved to Eintracht Frankfurt . In 1990, Andersen became the first foreign player to become the Bundesliga top scorer with 18 goals of the season ^[1] . In the 1990/91 season, Andersen played for Fortuna Dusseldorf , and later returned to Frankfurt . After that, he joined Hamburg , where he spent the 1994/95 season, and Dynamo Dresden became his last club in Germany ^[2] .

Andersen moved from Dresden to Switzerland and in 1995 became a player in Zurich , the transition was not successful, as he scored only twice in 33 matches. Then he played for “ Lugano ” and “ Locarno ”, as part of the latter he did not score at all.

International Career

He made his Norwegian national team debut in 1985 and played 27 games, scoring five goals. ^[3] His last international match was held as part of the selection for the European Championship against Hungary on October 17, 1990, he came on as a substitute for Jan Ivar Jacobsen . The game ended in a goalless draw.

After retiring, Andersen became the coach of the Lucerne youth squad, then returned to Germany, where he coached the Rot-Weiss Oberhausen from the Second Bundesliga from 2003 to 2004. After that, he was an assistant to Horst Köppel in Borussia Mönchengladbach .

In an interview with the Norwegian Verdens Gang newspaper in September 2006, Andersen claimed that he had several conversations with Joachim Löw regarding the position of assistant coach for the German national team . Leo confirmed that negotiations took place. Andersen said that he did not receive the position due to his nationality.

In May 2007, he signed a contract with the Greek Premier League team , Xanthi . He spent only one year with the club, as in June 2007 the contract was terminated for personal reasons.

At the end of 2007, he signed a contract with the Second Bundesliga club, Kickers Offenbach , but could not save the team from relegation.

On May 20, 2008, he signed a two-year contract with another club of the Second Bundesliga, Mainz . With him, the team achieved a promotion to the Bundesliga. Despite the success of the team, Andersen was fired on August 3, 2009.

In mid-December 2010, he was appointed coach of the Greek championship team, Larisa ^[4] . After only 24 days at the post, for which the team lost three league matches and flew out of the Greek Cup without scoring a single goal, he was fired ^[5] .

Six months later, Andersen returned to Germany and became the coach of the second division club, Karlsruhe ^[6] .

In the second half of the 2014/15 season, Andersen became the new coach of the Austrian Salzburg third division club ^[7] . He led the team to the second division. In December 2015, the contract was terminated due to financial problems of the club ^[8] .

In May 2016, Andersen led the North Korean team ^[9] . March 27, 2018 resigned from the post of head coach of the North Korean national team for financial reasons ^[10] .

Jorn is the son of handball player Björg Andersen, who represented the Norwegian national team at three world championships ^[11] .

In 1993, Andersen became a German citizen. His son, Niklas , is currently playing for Wattscheid 09 .