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Husband
Guro Pettersen has no husband or partner as of June 2023.
Biography
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Guro Pettersen was born on August 22, 1991. She is 31 years old and is a football goalkeeper who currently plays for the Toppserien club Vålerenga. She has several matches for Norway’s national youth football teams and has been called up to the Norwegian national team on numerous occasions. She got her debut on the national team at the age of 30, on 7 April 2022.
Guro Pettersen started her career in Fløya in 2008, moving south in 2012 to Stabæk and Vålerenga (two periods in each). Between 2007 and 2014 she also played for Norwegian age-specific national teams.
She first got national media attention, when tweeting that she should show the Stabæk manager “some of my other qualities”, in order to dethrone Ingrid Hjelmseth as first-choice goalkeeper. The tweet alluded to Stabæk’s manager allegedly having a romantic affair with one of the other players. According to the reports, Pettersen got this attention unwillingly because she was hacked.
Guro Pettersen was immediately approached by men’s magazines to do photo shoots. She later alleged that the hosts of a football podcast she was guesting, asked her if she had ever slept with a male professional footballer. The podcast was never aired. Pettersen participated in debates on gender inequality in football.
In the winter of 2017, during the Norwegian off-season, she was loaned out to Danish club Fortuna Hjørring for the remainder of the 2016–17 Elitedivisionen. She was benched twice in the 2016-17 UEFA Women’s Champions League but did not make a mark in Hjørring and was loaned out to Arna-Bjørnar for the remainder of 2017.
Ahead of the 2020 season, she joined Swedish Piteå. She decided on the move in order to fight her way onto the Norwegian national team. She was called up several times in the 2010s, but last in 2015, before Martin Sjögren took over as head coach. She was eventually called up to the national team in September 2020. In 2010 and 2021 she was benched 9 times for the national team.
In May 2021 Pettersen scored a goal for Piteå in open play, clearing the ball from the midfield. At the end of the season, she was given the Goal of the Year award in the 2021 Damallsvenskan. At the time, the Twitter video of the goal had been watched 100,000 times. She did however leave Piteå after the season, to commence her third spell in Vålerenga.
Guro Pettersen made her senior team debut on 7 April 2022. On 19 June 2023, she was included in the 23-player Norwegian squad for the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023.
Is Guro Pettersen married?
Guro Pettersen is not married and is not in a relationship. She hasn’t revealed her wedding plans to the public.
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