Solskjaer told 'he wasn't good enough' for army team before joining Man Utd

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer tells how he wasn't even picked for a team playing in the Norwegian army before becoming a legend at Manchester United.

The Norwegian striker, who became known as the baby-faced assassin, had enjoyed playing football as a youngster and didn't think he would become a professional footballer.

People automatically go into the army for national service for a year in Norway unless they are considered to have a special talent.

And for Solskjaer he did his national service without any expectation that he would enjoy greatness on the football pitch - and has told how he wasn't even picked for his army team.

He told the BBC: "In the army we had a football team, we had a training session maybe once or twice.

"There was like a Norwegian championship of army teams and I was not in the team in my camp.

"And that's another thing that, okay, I know I'm better than him, I know I'm better than him, I will be better than him, but it's other people's view on what, or I wasn't maybe strong enough or big enough in that team that the way he wanted to play."

And he says looking back there is a sense of "revenge" for him as he was able to prove those people wrong who never believed in him or felt he was good enough.

"So it was kind of a revenge when you look back and okay, they didn't believe in me, but I showed all of them," he added.

Solskjaer's career quickly took off though after he left the army and from Molde he joined United in 1996 where he went on to appear 366 times and score 126 goals.

His most memorable moment was scoring one of the last minute goals in the Champions League final against Bayern Munich in 1999.