{"id":387668,"date":"2026-01-24T08:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T08:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/387668\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T08:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T08:52:07","slug":"aberdeen-sign-norway-international-keeper-per-kristian-bratveit-after-nick-suman-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/387668\/","title":{"rendered":"Aberdeen sign Norway international keeper Per Kristian Bratveit after Nick Suman injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Aberdeen have signed goalkeeper Per Kristian Bratveit on an 18-month contract after the Norway international&#8217;s deal with Stromsgodset expired last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bratveit will provide backup to number one Dimitar Mitov after Nick Suman picked up a serious ankle injury in training.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 29-year-old came through the academy at hometown club Haugesund, making his first-team debut aged 18 in 2014 and playing over 100 times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He signed for Swedish club Djurgardens in 2019 and subsequently won his solitary Norway cap in 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bratveit had loan spells with FC Groningen and Nimes in France, before permanent stints with Valerenga, Aarhus, Odds BK and Stromsgodset.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When we learned the extent of Nick&#8217;s injury, we moved quickly to sign Per Kristian, whose contract with Stromsgodset had come to an end last month,&#8221; sporting director Lutz Pfannenstiel said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He is an experienced goalkeeper, having played extensively across several strong leagues and clubs, and he also has senior international experience with Norway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He will provide real competition within the goalkeeping department as we continue to strengthen the squad.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aberdeen have signed goalkeeper Per Kristian Bratveit on an 18-month contract after the Norway international&#8217;s deal with Stromsgodset&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-387668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}