{{Short description|Norwegian footballer (1914–1998)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Reidar Kvammen | image = | fullname = Reidar Kvammen<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fotball.no/fotballdata/person/profil/?fiksId=2605348 |title=Reidar Kvammen |publisher=Football Association of Norway |access-date=12 October 2019 |language=no}}</ref> | birth_date = {{birth date|1914|7|23|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Stavanger]], Norway | death_date = {{death date and age|1998|10|27|1914|7|23|df=yes}} | death_place = [[Stavanger]], Norway | height = | position = [[Striker (football)|Striker]] | currentclub = | clubnumber = | youthyears1 = | youthclubs1 = | years1 = 1931–1952 | clubs1 = [[Viking FK|Viking]] | caps1 = | goals1 = | nationalyears1 = 1933–1949 | nationalteam1 = [[Norway national football team|Norway]] | nationalcaps1 = 51 | nationalgoals1 = 17 | manageryears1 = 1953 | manageryears2 = 1957 | manageryears3 = 1960–1963 | manageryears4 = 1964 | manageryears5 = 1966 | managerclubs1 = [[Molde FK|Molde]] | managerclubs2 = [[Bryne FK|Bryne]] | managerclubs3 = [[Bryne FK|Bryne]] | managerclubs4 = [[Viking FK|Viking]] | managerclubs5 = [[Bryne FK|Bryne]] }} {{MedalTop}} {{MedalSport | Men's [[Football at the Summer Olympics|Football]]}} {{MedalBronze| [[1936 Summer Olympics|1936 Berlin]] |[[Football at the 1936 Summer Olympics|Team]]}} {{MedalBottom}} [[File:Bronselaget_1936.jpg | thumb|right | Reidar Kvammen (third from left, back row), 1936]] '''Reidar Kvammen''' (23 July 1914 – 27 October 1998) was a Norwegian [[football (soccer)|footballer]]. Kvammen was an inside-forward who played his entire career for [[Viking F.K.|Viking]], and is regarded as one of Norway's greatest footballers of all time. Kvammen was the first Norwegian footballer to reach 50 caps. Overall, he played 51 internationals and scored 17 goals for [[Norway national football team|Norway]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/noo-recintlp.html |title=Norway - Record International Players |access-date=6 February 2008 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130504194906/http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/noo-recintlp.html |archive-date=4 May 2013 }}</ref>
Kvammen was a prominent member of the Norwegian bronze medal-winning team in the [[1936 Summer Olympics|1936 Olympics]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/26836 |title=Reidar Kvammen |work=Olympedia |access-date=22 September 2021}}</ref> and also played in the [[1938 FIFA World Cup|World Cup]] two years later. At club level, he scored 202 goals,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.viking-fk.no/newsread/spillerarkiv.aspx?docid=11281 |title=Kvammen, Reidar - Viking Fotball |access-date=2 February 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110109043314/http://www.viking-fk.no/newsread/spillerarkiv.aspx?docid=11281 |archive-date=9 January 2011 }}</ref> which to this date is still a [[Viking F.K.|Viking]] club record.<ref>Jensen 2016: p. 140</ref>
After his career as player, Kvammen had spells as coach at [[Molde FK|Molde]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.moldefk.no/historikk/?m=i&p=trenere |title=Trenere - MFK-historie |access-date=18 September 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629143630/http://www.moldefk.no/historikk/?m=i&p=trenere |archive-date=29 June 2011 }}</ref> [[Bryne FK|Bryne]] and [[Viking FK|Viking]].
==Personal life== Kvammen was born in [[Stavanger]], the son of shoemaker Rasmus Andreas Kvammen and Janna Kvammen, and worked as a police officer. He married Anna Martea Steen in 1942.<ref name=nbl>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Reidar Kvammen |encyclopedia=[[Norsk biografisk leksikon]]|first=Per |last=Jorsett |author-link=Per Jorsett |editor=Helle, Knut |editor-link=Knut Helle |publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget |location=Oslo |url=http://nbl.snl.no/Reidar_Kvammen/utdypning |language=no |access-date=12 January 2014}}</ref> During the [[German occupation of Norway]] Kvammen was sent to a concentration camp in German-occupied Poland: he had refused to participate in the Nazification of the police. He was first imprisoned in August 1943 and held in prison in Stavanger, then in [[Grini concentration camp]] from August to December 1943, then in [[Stutthof concentration camp]] until the end of the war.<ref>{{cite book|editor=Ottosen, Kristian|editor-link=Kristian Ottosen|title=Nordmenn i fangenskap 1940–1945|edition=2nd|year=2004|publisher=Universitetsforlaget|location=Oslo|language=no|isbn=82-15-00288-9|page=422}}</ref> Captivity was a physical strain on Kvammen, and he had to go to Sweden for rehabilitation after the war.
His autobiography, ''50 ganger på Norges landslag'', was issued in 1949.<ref name =nbl/>
==References== ===Footnotes=== {{Reflist}}
===Bibliography=== {{refbegin}} *{{cite book |title=Bronselaget. Historien om Norges største fotballhelter |first=Øyvind Steen |last=Jensen| year= 2016 |publisher=Forlaget Historie & Kultur |location=Oslo |language=no }} {{refend}}
==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070213150148/http://www.databaseolympics.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=KVAMMREI01 Reidar Kvammen at databaseOlympics.com]
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