Harald Martin Brattbakk
(born 1 February 1971 in Trondheim
) is a Norwegian
former football player, now working as a pilot. He is the current all time top scorer
in the
Norwegian top division with 166
goals in 255 matches.
Club career
He has
played for Kolstad, Rosenborg
BK
, Celtic, F.C. Copenhagen and
Bodø/Glimt (loan).
Brattbakk
is most known for his goalscoring abilities for the Norwegian club
Rosenborg
BK where he has enjoyed three spells (1990-91, 1994-97
and 2001-06) scoring most of his goals which has helped him reach
the top of the all-time goalscoring chart in the Norwegian Premier
League.
At Celtic, where he played from December 1997 to January 2000,
Brattbakk seemed overawed by the pressures of playing for one of
Scotland's
Old Firm clubs. Though he did
enjoy some success with the club — including hitting the
clinching goal against
St
Johnstone to help them win the
SPL title on the final day of the
1997-1998 season, and
scoring all four goals in a 4-0 win over
Kilmarnock that same year — his spell
in Glasgow was generally characterised by nervous performances and
insufficient goals.
However, Brattbakk has been very successful in Norway. With 166
goals he is the highest-scoring player in the history of the
Norwegian Premier League.
Moreover, his record in the
Champions League is an impressive one,
and includes goals against such top sides as
Real Madrid and
Milan.
He scored 28 goals in 66 matches for Rosenborg BK and scored 4
goals in 9 matches for Celtic in various European Cups. In November
2001, he scored twice against his old club Celtic as Rosenborg
defeated them 2-0 in a Champions League tie in Trondheim.
Brattbakk returned to Rosenborg after being on a loan to Bodø/Glimt
in the last half of the 2005 season, but on 20 February 2006 it was
announced that he had been relieved from his contract and he has
now retired from the game.
In 2008 Brattbakk made a comeback in football after signing a
contract with his native Kolstad-Fotball, an amateur club in the
Norwegian 3rd Division Dep. 19. However, the comeback lasted only
for the rest of the 2008 season.
International career
Brattbakk made his debut for
Norway in a February 1995
friendly match against
Estonia in which he scored
two goals. He went on to play seventeen times for his country,
scoring five goals.
Retirement
On 21 November 2006 Brattbakk announced on the Norwegian television
channel
TV3 that he intends to become
an airline pilot after his retirement from professional football.
He made
his pilot education in Florida
and got his
commercial aircraft certification in 2008. Now he flies for the
aircraft company Helitrans, based at
Trondheim
Airport, Værnes
. This includes missions for
Norwegian Coast Guard.
Career Statistics
- Total games and goals does not include Third Division and
below.
Honours
Club
- Rosenborg BK
- Celtic F.C.
- F.C. Copenhagen
Individual
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