Silje Solskjær Bio: Age, Family, Husband, Kids, Net Worth

Who is Silje Solskjær? 

Silje Solskjær is a former Norwegian football player, who contributed quite a bit to the Norwegian sports sector while her career lasted. However, she is widely known for being the wife of Ole Gunnar Solskjær, who is also a former Norwegian football player and professional football manager. Ole Gunnar Solskjær is known for being one of the most sought-after Manchester United players playing about 67 times for the Norway national team in total and the current Manchester United manager. 

I will share Silje Solskjær’s biography, facts about her relationship with her husband, Ole Gunnar Solskjær, and other things you probably didn’t know about her. Before I continue, let’s take a quick look at her profile summary. 

Silje Solskjær Biography 

Silje Solskjær was born Silje Lyngvaer in 1974 in her home country, Norway, and is 48 years old. She was raised along with her brother, Ole Lyngvaer, by her Norwegian-born parents whose details are obscure. Her brother, Ole Lyngvaer, is also a professional football player who played for local and national teams in Norway. He had scored twice since he started playing, talking about him scoring twice in the ‘Norwegian Cup’ semi final in 1990. Nonetheless, he is now a retired football player who currently works at Cardiff’s youth academy, a job sources purport that Silje’s husband, Ole Gunnar Solskjær, gave him in 2014.

As a Kristiansund, Norway native, Solskjær holds Norwegian citizenship by birth. She has a white skin color with a pair of cute blue eyes and long blonde hair. Looking at her body parameters and physique results, Silje Solskjær stands about 1.7 meters or 170 centimeters above the ground, approximately five feet six inches. She weighs either 55 kilograms or 121 pounds and seems quite fit for a woman in her late forties. Although she may have grown up in either a Christian or a Muslim household, Solskjær’s current religious view is atheism.

As with most details about her personal life, information about Silje’s educational background is yet to make it to the web. Otherwise, one could assume her to be a vastly educated young woman — looking at her career portfolio. And of course, she must have acquired preliminary education, more clearly. 

Silje Solskjær Career, Fame & Husband 

Silje Solskjær is a popularly known figure in the Norwegian sports scene. She does not share much about her professional life with the public, but she is known to have played football for the Clausenengen. However, she stopped playing professionally in the early 2000s. She rose to the spotlight after her relationship with the current manager of the famed football club, Manchester United, Ole Gunnar Solskjær made it to the media. Now, Ole Gunnar Solskjær was born Ole Gunnar Solskjær KSO on February 26, 1973, in Kristiansund, Møre og Romsdal, Norway and is 49 years old. 

He was raised by Norwegian partners, Øyvind Solskjær who is a Greco-Roman wrestling champion, and his wife, Brita Solskjær, who worked as a homemaker so took care of the family. Having nicknames such as Super-sub, and The Baby-faced Assassin, Ole Gunnar developed an interest in football from a very young age and supported Liverpool as a child. Because of this, he would later join the local football club in his hometown known as “Clausenengen.” 

Being the son of the Greco-Roman wrestling champion, Ole Gunnar Solskjær often accompanied his father to some of his wrestling competitions. Later, he became a Greco-Roman wrestler trainee but gave up the idea of becoming a professional wrestler (like his father) because according to him, he was being “tossed around a little too much.” After training at Greco-Roman between the ages of eight and ten, Ole completed his mandatory year’s national service in the Norwegian Army years later, between the ages of nineteen and twenty — between 1992 and 1993.

Accordingly, Ole Gunnar Solskjær started his career in the sports industry in 1990 at 17. Later, he became one of the participants in the Otta Cup and scored about seventeen goals in six matches. In July 1996 at 23, he joined Manchester United for a transfer fee of $2 million. It was during his years at the club that he got the nickname, “Baby Faced Assassin” by his fans and supporters. He scored 126 goals in the 336 matches he played for Manchester United, retiring from playing football in 2007 at 34. 

One of his notable goals was when he scored the last-minute winning goal against Bayern Munich. He is also remembered by the United and his fans for playing a pivotal role in the club’s winning of the Treble in 1999. After he announced his retirement from playing in fields, Ole Gunnar Solskjær took a coaching role at Manchester United. Then, he was appointed as the club’s caretaker manager, taking over from Jose Mourinho for the rest of the 2018-2019 season. 

He was the team coach (Association football manager) for Manchester United F.C. between 2019 and 2021. Before working with Manchester United as a manager, Ole oversaw the management of the clubs, “Cardiff City” and “Molde.” As a former football player, Ole Gunnar spent most years of his career with Manchester United but also worked with Norway national team, where he played 67 times.

Silje Solskjær Has three Children with Ole Gunnar Solskjær 

Silje Solskjær is married to Ole Gunnar Solskjær with whom she exchanged her wedding vows in a private wedding party held in 2004 in Florida, the United States of America. The lovers met each other for the first time in Kristiansund, Norway, in 1992 while Ole played for local football club, Clausenengen. About a year after they started dating, Silje and Ole were briefly separated due to Ole’s mandatory year’s national service in the Norwegian military. 

However, they got back together and officiated their marriage after dating for about half a decade. In one of his interviews, Silje Solskjær’s husband, Ole Gunnar Solskjær, commented about her skills in playing football, in part, thus; “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.”

Having been married for more than a decade and a half, and having been romantically hitched with each other for more about three decades now, the couple share three children — two sons and one daughter. They had their first child, Noah Solskjær, before they got married in June 2000. Noah Solskjær who is now 22 years old plays for a Norwegian football club that plays in the Eliteserien known as “Kristiansund BK.” 

Born in 2003, Karna Solskjær became their second child and only daughter. She is 19 years old and currently plays for the Manchester United women’s soccer team. Their third child and second son, Elijah Solskjaer, was born in 2008. Currently a fourteen-year-old, Elijah Solskjær is yet to pursue a career. 

On a side note; Silje Solskjær’s husband, Ole Gunnar Solskjær, moved to the United Kingdom with her in 1994. Around those years, they met and became friends with Victoria and David Beckham in Manchester, whom they have been friends with for almost three decades and still remain friends. 

Silje Solskjær Net Worth

Although she stopped playing football in the early 2000s after she got married to Ole Gunnar Solskjær, Silje Solskjær has an estimated net worth of about $6 million. As with her private life, information about her current profession is unknown. She has a private Instagram under the username @siljesolskjaer, where she has about 4.9k thousand followers. She is following 459 accounts and has made 42 posts.