Daniel Berg Hestad

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Daniel Berg Hestad
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Hestad training with Molde in 2013
Personal information
Date of birth (1975-07-30) 30 July 1975 (age 48)
Place of birth Molde, Norway
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Position(s) Central Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Molde
Number 6
Youth career
Molde
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1993–2003 Molde 258 (54)
2003–2005 SC Heerenveen 41 (5)
2005– Molde 258 (25)
International career‡
1995–1998 Norway U21 35 (12)
1998–2003 Norway 8 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 6 November 2015
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 10 March 2008

Daniel Berg Hestad (born 30 July 1975) is a Norwegian footballer, playing as a central midfielder for Molde. He is the player with most matches for Molde, and currently holds the record for most matches in Tippeligaen. He is two time Norwegian league champion, and two times Norwegian cup champion.

Club career

Berg Hestad debuted for Molde in the Tippeligaen match against Start on 23 May 1993,[1] and has since played more than 700 first team matches for this team, which is a club record.[2] With 350 Tippeliga-matches, he is the player with second most matches in Tippeligaen, only beaten by Roar Strand.[3] In 2003 he moved to Dutch team SC Heerenveen, where he played two seasons, returning to Molde in the summer of 2005. Hestad was five times runner-up in Tippeligaen with Molde (1995, 1998, 1999, 2002 and 2009) before he finally could lift the trophy as captain of the 2011 Champions.

After winning two straight Tippeligaen titles, it was speculated whether Berg Hestad would retire. He did however sign a new one-year-contract ahead of the 2013 season.[4] He was one of Molde's best players during the season, and in September 2013 he told the club that he would sign a new contract for one more year if the offer was good enough. When he signed a new one-year extension in November 2013, the manager Ole Gunnar Solskjær stated that Berg Hestad would be a part of Molde's coaching staff during the 2014 season.[5] Hestad became the oldest goalscorer in the European competitions on 5 November 2015, when he scored in a Europa League match against Celtic aged 40 years and 99 days.[6]

International career

Hestad has 8 caps for the Norwegian national team, between 1998 and 2003, as well as a multitude of junior and youth internationals. In 1998, he was a part of the Norwegian U-21 team, that won bronze medals in 1998 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship.

Personal life

Hestad comes from a long line of Molde players. His father Stein Olav Hestad held the club record for most first-team appearances of all-time, before this was beaten by Daniel. His uncles Harry Hestad, Odd Berg and Jan Berg also played many years at the club.[7] His brother, Peter Berg Hestad, also played there a few years.

He married Trude Vik in 2006, with whom he has two sons, Tobias and Jonathan.[8]

In 2000 he served time in prison for driving under the influence. This incident occurred during Molde's Christmas party after Berg Hestad was informed of the hospitalisation of his wife and their infant baby. Both were in a critical state and in a moment of poor judgement, Berg Hestad got in his car to drive to the hospital, only to crash after a few hundred meters.[9]

Career statistics

As of 19 July 2015[10]
Season Club Division League Cup Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
1993 Molde Tippeligaen 15 1 3 0 18 1
1994 First Division 19 0 2 1 21 1
1995 Tippeligaen 26 5 5 1 31 6
1996 25 4 5 2 30 6
1997 25 12 4 2 29 14
1998 24 8 5 3 29 11
1999 25 4 2 0 27 4
2000 26 3 4 2 30 5
2001 26 9 5 2 31 11
2002 26 4 5 0 31 4
2003 21 4 2 1 23 5
2003–04 Heerenveen Eredivisie 15 1 2 0 17 1
2004–05 26 4 4 0 30 4
2005 Molde Tippeligaen 14 3 3 2 17 5
2006 24 3 2 2 26 5
2007 First Division 24 8 0 0 24 8
2008 Tippeligaen 25 4 6 1 31 5
2009 27 0 7 1 34 1
2010 26 3 2 0 28 3
2011 28 0 3 0 30 0
2012 24 2 1 0 25 2
2013 19 1 4 0 23 1
2014 25 1 5 1 30 2
2015 22 0 3 0 25 0
Molde Total 516 79 78 21 594 100
Career Total 557 84 84 21 641 105

Honours

Molde FK

References

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