Career
Lundekvam was capped 40 times playing for Norway. Hailing from Austevoll, Norway, he joined Brann as a junior player with his senior debut coming in 1993. Lundekvam eventually gained a regular place as a central defender before being sold to English side Southampton in the autumn of 1996.
He was the team"s first choice for captain for several years.
Lundekvam made his debut for Norway in November 1995, but did not become a regular until 2002. He was capped 40 times, scoring twice.
His first international goal, against Bosnia-Herzegovina in 2002, was the 1,000th goal in the history of the Norwegian national team Claus scored only two goals during his Saints career.
This was during the management of Gordon Strachan, who famously joked when Lundekvam was stretched off injured in a game against Leicester City in the 2003-2004 season that he "didn"t have a clue" whether the player was unconscious as "that"s what he"s always like".
Lundekvam remained at Southampton even after their relegation from the FA Premier League in 2005. He went off injured after five minutes of the first game of the 2006-2007 season, away to Derby County on 6 August 2006 (being replaced in the centre of defence by Chris Baird) and missed the first two months of the season. He then enjoyed a long run in the team before another injury in March put him out for another month.
In the game at Street Mary"s against Southend United on 6 May 2007, he fell awkwardly sustaining a serious ankle injury which has put him out of action until at least February 2008.
On 18 March 2008 it was announced that his injury was such that his playing career was over. He later had problems with drink and drug abuse.
He quoted "I would drink two litres of hard liquor and do between five and ten grams of cocaine every day." In July 2012, Lundekvam claimed that he, team-mates and opposing captains were involved in betting fraud. "We could make deals with the opposing captain about, for example, betting on the first throw, the first corner, who started with the ball, a yellow card or a penalty.
Those were the sorts of thing we had influence over." These allegations were later denied by Lundekvam"s former team-mate and captain, Francis Benali.
Lundekvam works as a pundit for TV2, the largest commercial broadcaster in Norway, where he appears regularly.