Per Ciljan Skjelbred

Per Ciljan Skjelbred is exactly the type of midfielder I treasure: the unglamorous engine room. Born in Trondheim, he carved out a long career at Hertha Berlin and Hamburger SV, two demanding German clubs that do not tolerate passengers, and earned 43 caps for Norway. At 1.76 m he was never an imposing physical specimen, which tells me his value lay in intelligence, work rate, and reading the game. The world remembers goalscorers, but football is held together by players like him. I have enormous respect for the quiet metronomes who make everyone around them better.

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Name (English)

Per Ciljan Skjelbred

Name (Japanese)

ペア・シリアン・シェルブレット

Reading

ぺあ・しりあん・しぇるぶれっと

Born

June 16, 1987 (age 39)

Origin

Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway

Height

175 cm

Occupation

association football player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Rabbit

• Xhttps://x.com/PerCSkjelbred
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per%20Ciljan%20Skjelbred
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9A%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AB%E3%83%96%E3%83%AC%E3%83%83%E3%83%88
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q266796

Tags

• Sør-Trøndelag
• association football player

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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