Bjarte Lunde Aarsheim
Personal information
Date of birth	January 14, 1975 (1975-01-14) (age 34)
Place of birth	Norway
Height	1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)
Playing position	midfielder
Club information
Current club	Randaberg
Youth career
	Hundvåg IL
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1993-2005 2005-2007 2007-present	Viking FK IK Start Randaberg	222 (15) 42 (1) ? (?)
National team2
2001	Norway	3 (0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 9 November 2007. 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 9 November 2007. * Appearances (Goals)

Bjarte Lunde Aarsheim (born 14 January 1975) is a Norwegian footballer, playing for Randaberg IL.

Contents 1 Club career 1.1 Viking 1.2 Start 2 International career 3 References

[edit] Club career

[edit] Viking

Aarsheim has stayed with Viking FK for the majority of his career, arriving from local club Hundvåg as a youth team player. Making his debut for Viking in 1994, he stayed with the club until 2005, playing a total of 422 games. A creative midfielder, Aarsheim was at his peak during the 2001 season, when, as captain, he led Viking to a league lead before suffering a serious ankle injury in a game against SK Brann halfway through the season. Although he made an extremely popular five minute comeback in the Norwegian cup final victory over rivals Bryne FK later in the year, Aarsheim never really recovered from the injury. He played only 4 games in the 2002 season, and he was injured for large parts of the 2003 season as well.

[edit] Start

He remained captain of Viking until the end of the 2004 season, but midway through the 2005 season he was released on a free transfer, joining league leaders IK Start. In the summer of 2007 he surprisingly^[1] joined Randaberg IL, a club playing in the fourth tier of Norwegian football, together with Øyvind Svenning.

[edit] International career

He made his national team debut in a 3-2 win against South Korea in January 2001, earning a total of three caps for Norway. His last international match was an August 2001 friendly match against Turkey.

[edit] References

• Stats at IK Start
• Stats at Viking FK
• Stats at National Football Teams

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (September 2007)

1. ^ Kleppe, Per Sigve (2007-07-13). "Sjokksigneringene på plass" (in Norwegian). Rogalands Avis. http://www.rogalandsavis.no/sport/viking/article2877020.ece. Retrieved 2007-09-15. 

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