| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Arvid Ingar Knutsen[1] | ||
| Date of birth | (1944-03-03)3 March 1944 | ||
| Place of birth | Stavanger, Norway | ||
| Date of death | 4 January 2009(2009-01-04) (aged 64) | ||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| Stavanger | |||
| 1961–1975 | Viking | 396 | (117) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1976 | Viking | ||
| Frigg | |||
| Klepp | |||
| Ulf Sandnes | |||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Arvid Ingar Knutsen (3 March 1944 – 4 January 2009) was a Norwegian football player and coach.
Aforward, he joinedViking FK fromStavanger IF in 1961, and made his senior team debut in 1963. With Viking he won theNorwegian First Division in1972,1973,1974 and1975, and also took bronze medals in1968 and1971. He played for Viking 396 times, scoring 117 goals. From 1976 he coached the team.[2]
Outside of his sporting career, Knutsen worked as a high school teacher atStavanger Cathedral School. He took his education at theUniversity of Bergen in 1969 and at theNorwegian School of Sport Sciences in 1981. He married in 1974, and had two daughters.[2]
In March 2008 he was diagnosed withbrain tumor. Operated at Haukeland, he learned that he suffered from terminal cancer, and he died in January 2009.[2]
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