Erik Ruthford Pedersen
Personal information
Date of birth (1946-02-14) 14 February 1946
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Start
Managerial career
1977–1978 Vindbjart
1978–1978 Vigør
1979–1980 Bodø/Glimt
1981 Start (assistant)
1982–1984 Start
1985–1989 Start (youth)
1991–1995 Start (assistant)
1995 Start
2007–2017 Start (goalkeeping coach)
2010–2017 Vindbjart (goalkeeping coach)
2018– Vigør (goalkeeping coach)
2019 Arendal (goalkeeping coach)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Erik Ruthford Pedersen (born 14 February 1946) was a Norwegian football manager.

A player with a modest career in Start, he started his managing career in local clubs Vindbjart and Vigør before being hired by Bodø/Glimt. After two seasons he returned to Start, first as assistant manager, then as manager from 1982 to 1984. After long periods as youth coach and assistant manager, he again became manager in 1995. From 2007 through 2017 he was their goalkeeper coach.[1] He was the father of players Kjetil Ruthford Pedersen and Steinar Pedersen, and after Steinar Pedersen was sacked as manager by Start's new director of sports Tor-Kristian Karlsen in 2017, Pedersen quit Start.[2] He was regarded as a club legend and a person who "was Start".[3] He instead became goalkeeper coach of Vigør, and of Arendal when his son Steinar Pedersen was managed there.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Footballdatabase
  2. Folvik, Herman Tinius (6 October 2017). "Erik Ruthford Pedersen tar Start-pause i sinne etter 46 år i klubben". VG (in Norwegian). Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  3. Karlsen, Håvard (9 November 2016). "Jeg er ingen ungdom, men denne jobben holder meg ung". Fædrelandsvennen (in Norwegian). pp. 42–43.


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