Bjørn Otto Bragstad

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Personal information
Bjørn Otto Bragstad
Full name	Bjørn Otto Bragstad
Date of birth	January 5, 1971 (1971-01-05) (age 37)
Place of birth	Trondheim, Norway
Height	1,94 m.
Playing position	defender
Club information
Current club	retired
Youth clubs
	Utleira
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1989-2000 2000-2001 2001-2002 2002-2004	Rosenborg Derby County → Birmingham City (loan) SW Bregenz	195 (26) 12 (0) 3 (0) 41 (2)
National team²
1999-2000	Norway	15 (0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 12 January 2008. ² National team caps and goals correct as of 12 January 2008. * Appearances (Goals)

Bjørn Otto Bragstad (born January 5, 1971) is a former football defender from Norway. He currently works as a teacher.

1 Club career
2 International career
3 Honours
- 3.1 With Rosenborg B.K.
4 External links
5 References

[edit] Club career

Bragstad came through the youth ranks at Rosenborg before making his senior debut in the 1989 season. He scored 26 goals in 194 matches for them. In 2000, he joined English team Derby. Playing just 12 matches, he was no success and went on loan to Birmingham where he would only play three matches the following season. He spent the rest of his career in Austria with Bregenz before retiring in the summer of 2004.

[edit] International career

He made his debut for Norway in a January 1999 friendly match against Israel and was capped 15 times^[1]. His last international match was an August 2000 friendly against Finland. Bragstad was a squad player at the Euro 2000 and played in Norway's all three matches.