Hallvar Thoresen [SEP] father
Hallvar Thoresen
Hallvar Thoresen (born 12 April 1957) is a former Norwegian footballer. The son of former Norwegian international Gunnar Thoresen, Hallvar Thoresen was central in 1980s Norwegian football.
Career.
Career Club.
Thoresen started his career in Larvik Turn, but travelled abroad at the age of seventeen, and soon became a regular at FC Twente in the Netherlands. They won the Dutch Cup in 1977, and Thoresen was bought by giants PSV Eindhoven, where he formed a dynamic tandem with Jurrie Koolhof in the 1980s
in the Norwegian Premier League, an average of 0.78 goals per match. He played his last match for Larvik Turn in 1962, having scored a total of 425 goals in 472 first-team matches for the club (including friendlies). This makes him the highest-scoring Norwegian footballer of all-time.
Thoresen is the father of Hallvar Thoresen, who also became a Norwegian international footballer, played professionally for PSV Eindhoven in the Netherlands, and is regarded as one of Norway's best players in the 1980s.