Silje Solskjaer: Ole Gunnar Solskjaer wife, family, kids, career and net worth

Silje Solskjaer is a former football player who is popular in the footballing sphere because of being the wife of Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.

Silje Solskjaer and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer have been married for approximately 17 years after having tied the knot in Florida, the United States of America in 2004. They are still together and have three kids.

Silje Solskjaer and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s families

The couple married each other in the year 2004, but the date of the event remains unknown. Silje was a professional footballer player before she married Ole Solskjaer, but did not continue to play from at least 2000.

There is no information available publicly on Silje’s family- her father, mother, or siblings- but it is known that she was born in 1974 in Kristiansund, Norway.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was born to Oyvind Solskjaer, his father who was a Greco-Roman wrestling champion, and his mother, Britta Solskjaer. Ole also trained to be a wrestler just like his old man but gave up on the dream pretty early due to the physicality of the sport.

Silje Solskjaer’s husband Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

Ole was born in More of Romsdal, Norway, on 26th February 1973. He wanted to become a wrestler between the ages of 8 and 10 but then shifted his focus elsewhere. It’s safe to say that it has worked out pretty well for him.

He was a Liverpool fan as a child and by 1993, had completed one year of compulsory service in Norway’s military. In fact, this was when he had a bumpy spell with his then-girlfriend, Silje.

The couple met in 1992 in Kristiansund, Norway, where Ole played his football for local club Clausenengen. Silje was also a football player but seemingly stopped playing professionally in the early 2000s.

Ole once revealed in an interview: ” Silje was a very good football player. We often trained together when we were younger. Back in Clausenengen, we had a kids’ football training group in the morning that I really was too old to go.”

During his military service, the couple were briefly apart but were soon back together, and have been living happily ever after since. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is now the manager of Manchester United, the most prestigious footballing establishment in the world.

He had an impeccable career at the club as a player. He moved to the UK in 1996 with Silje, and the couple befriended Victoria and David Beckham in Manchester, with whom they still remain friends. He hung up his boots in 2007 and before his job as Manchester United manager, was in charge at Cardiff City as well as Molde.

Silje Solskjaer and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s Kids

Silje Solskjaer and Ole have three kids together. Their eldest son, Noah Solskjaer, was born in June 2000 before the couple tied the knot. He currently plays football for Kristiansund as a midfielder.

The couple had their first and only daughter, Karna Solskjaer, in 2003. She is currently plying her trade for Manchester United Women’s football team.

Their second son, Elijah Solskjaer, was born in 2008. Not much is known about him and given he is still very young, it might take a few years for him to get into the public spotlight.

Silje Solskjaer Profession and Net Worth

Silje was a footballer but since then, her profession is unknown. The 47-year-old keeps a very low profile on social media and is out of the public spotlight. She doesn’t have an Instagram or a Twitter account.

Silje Solskjaer’s net worth is not yet known and she isn’t really the one to fit into the ‘WAG’ stereotype considering how little she gives away about herself in the media. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s net worth, however, stands somewhere between £6million and £8million.

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