Miriam Mumtaz

Miriam Mumtaz
Personal information
Date of birth (1979-06-06) 6 June 1979
Position(s) Striker
Youth career
Våg
1989–1990 Radar
1991–1994 Donn
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1995–1997 Donn
1997–2000 Larvik
2000 HEI
2001–2003 Larvik
2004–2005 Røa 15 (1)
2005 → Liungen (loan) 3 (1)
2006 Liungen 16 (4)
2007–2008 Team Strømmen 36 (7)
2009 Kolbotn 20 (12)
2012 Donn
International career
1998 Norway U18 4 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Miriam Mumtaz (born 6 June 1979) is a Norwegian footballer who played as a striker. She won the double with Røa and finished in the top 10 on the top goalscorer table with Kolbotn.

Career

She was born to a Norwegian mother and Pakistani father.[1] She grew up in Vågsbygd and started her youth career in FK Våg. She played with boys initially, moving on to Radar at the age of ten and FK Donn at the age of 12. She made her senior debut in a friendly match in 1994,[2] but under league rules, she was too young to play official matches.[3]

Mumtaz was a regular player for Donn's first team from 1995.[4] After the 1996 season, when Donn failed to win promotion, Mumtaz wanted to leave for a bigger club. She received offers from Klepp and Verdal; the latter club also tried to sign the erstwhile Donn player Line Anzjøn.[5]

Mumtaz remained in Donn until the fall of 1997, when she traveled up the coast to join FK Larvik. She would attend her last year of secondary school at Thor Heyerdahl.[6] She scored on her debut for FK Larvik.[7] She also featured for Norway U18 in 1998, gaining 4 caps[8] and scoring 1 goal, against Sweden U18.[9]

For the year 2000–01, Mumtaz applied for a teachers' college in Denmark.[10] She would play for HEI,[11][12][13] but already in November 2000 her return to Larvik was announced.[14] She scored important goals as Larvik were newly promoted to the 2002 Toppserien,[15] when the team avoided relegation. They were relegated in 2003. In 2004 Mumtaz joined Røa IL.

She helped Røa win the first championship in club history, the 2004 Toppserien.[16] Though she was an unused substitute in the final, Mumtaz also won the 2004 cup with Røa.[17]

In August 2005 she went on loan to league strugglers IF Liungen, scoring on her debut.[18] The move was made permanent in 2006, but the season ended in relegation from the Toppserien.[19][20] Mumtaz was approached by Amazon Grimstad,[21] but chose to continue her career in Team Strømmen.[22] She was an unused substitute in the 2008 cup final, which Team Strømmen lost to her former club Røa.[23]

Mumtaz moved on to Kolbotn in 2009. Aged 29, she was among their most experienced players and felt a responsibility for the younger teammates on and off the field.[24][25] She was particularly noted for scoring 4 goals against Fortuna Ålesund in a 8–1 thrashing.[26][27] Nonetheless, she chose to retire after the 2009 season. In her last elite match, she scored the decisive goal in a victory over Amazon Grimstad.[28] In the 2009 Toppserien, Mumtaz ended 9th in the top goalscorer table with 12 goals.

She made a brief comeback for FK Donn in 2012.[29][30] Mumtaz later served as a board member of IK Start's women's team.[31]

Personal life

Mumtaz started a gym and a crossfit facility in Vågsbygd, later starting and co-owning the gym Urban Fitness.[32] She settled in Lund, Kristiansand, with Monica Kleppe.[33]

References

  1. ^ "Mmmmmm, så deilig!". Drammens Tidende (in Norwegian). 7 May 2006. p. 14.
  2. ^ "Stortalent på målhungrig Donn-lag". Fædrelandsvennen (in Norwegian). 2 August 1994. p. 20.
  3. ^ "Svekket Donn-lag vant 4-1". Fædrelandsvennen (in Norwegian). 11 April 1994. p. 31.
  4. ^ "Spillerflukt fra Donn?". Fædrelandsvennen, tirsdag 17. januar 1995 (in Norwegian). p. 30.
  5. ^ "Så på forholdene". Innherreds Folkeblad Verdalingen (in Norwegian). 12 November 1996. p. 5.
  6. ^ "Miriam Mumtaz fra Donn til Larvik". Fædrelandsvennen (in Norwegian). 23 August 1997. p. 12.
  7. ^ "Miriam scoret i debuten". Østlands-Posten (in Norwegian). 8 September 1997. p. 9.
  8. ^ "Sørlendinger for Norge". Fædrelandsvennen (in Norwegian). 11 April 2006. p. 20.
  9. ^ "Godkjent generaløve for U-jentene". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). 14 August 1997. p. 23.
  10. ^ "Mister nøkkelspillere". Østlands-Posten (in Norwegian). 13 June 2000. p. 13.
  11. ^ "Arvefjender mødes tidligt". Jyllands-Posten (in Danish). 15 August 2000. Retrieved 22 May 2025.
  12. ^ "Vil hjelpe Larvik". Østlands-Posten (in Norwegian). 28 August 2000. p. 11.
  13. ^ "Ingen fast fisk på kroken". Østlands-Posten (in Norwegian). 30 August 2000. p. 10.
  14. ^ "Vant pokalen de ikke ville ha". Østlands-Posten (in Norwegian). 18 November 2000. p. 11.
  15. ^ "Modige Miriams mirakel". Østlands-Posten (in Norwegian). 9 September 2002. p. 12.
  16. ^ "– Ubeskrivelig deilig". Fædrelandsvennen (in Norwegian). 1 November 2004. p. 17.
  17. ^ "– Glad jeg ikke la opp for godt". Østlands-Posten (in Norwegian). 8 November 2004. p. 14.
  18. ^ "Miriam Mumtaz scoret i debuten". Drammens tidende (in Norwegian). 7 August 2005. p. 16.
  19. ^ "Rotet bort bronsen". Drammens Tidende (in Norwegian). 26 February 2006. p. 20.
  20. ^ "Tar skittentøyvasken". Drammens Tidende (in Norwegian). 1 November 2006. p. 4.
  21. ^ "Spill på Amazon-gull, få 50 ganger innsatsen". Agderposten (in Norwegian). 9 December 2006. p. 23.
  22. ^ "Kampen om 'millionen' i gang". Romerikes Blad (in Norwegian). 1 February 2007. p. 26.
  23. ^ "Mykjålands fjerde tittel". Fædrelandsvennen (in Norwegian). 10 November 2008. p. 31.
  24. ^ Østlandets Blad (20 December 2008). "Miriam Mumtaz til KIL" (in Norwegian). p. 17.
  25. ^ "Miriam reddet Kolbotn". Østlandets Blad (in Norwegian). 31 March 2009. p. 26.
  26. ^ "Mumtaz åpner for en ny KIL-sesong". Østlandets Blad (in Norwegian). 29 June 2009. p. 18.
  27. ^ Weiberg-Aurdal, Jan Magnus (27 June 2009). "Kolbotns Miriam Mumtaz med hattrick" (in Norwegian). TV 2.
  28. ^ "Miriam Mumtaz avsluttet med stil". Østlandets Blad (in Norwegian). 2 November 2009. p. 15.
  29. ^ Miriam Mumtaz at the Norwegian Football Federation (in Norwegian)
  30. ^ "Mumtaz gjør Donn-comeback". Fædrelandsvennen (in Norwegian). 1 September 2012. p. 31.
  31. ^ "Vi har oppfordret damer til å søke". Fædrelandsvennen (in Norwegian). 18 October 2022. p. 31.
  32. ^ "Utkledning med forviklinger". Fædrelandsvennen (in Norwegian). 12 September 2020. p. 32.
  33. ^ Byklum, Kari. "Totalforvandlet huset på Lund". Fædrelandsvennne (in Norwegian). Retrieved 19 May 2023.
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