Roar Stokke
Roar Stokke (born 22 August 1959) is a former football player, coach and commentator, from Norway.
In the mid-1980s he played for Strindheim IL.[1] Ahead of the 1988 season he left for Nardo FK.[2] In 1993, he was playing head coach of Nardo.[3] In 1994 Nardo barely missed promotion to the Norwegian Premier League, marking the heyday of the club's history.[4] Stokke was offered the position as head coach of Tromsdalen UIL, but refused.[5] However, he resigned from Nardo in September 1995 after disagreements with the board of directors.[6]
He was later football commentator in the radio station P4 Radio Hele Norge, and also worked as key account manager in DFDS Tollpost. When Knut Theodor Gleditsch died, he left a vacant seat as the main football commentator of TV 3, which Stokke came to fill. TV3 decided to "brand" the relatively unknown Stokke as a new football profile.[7] Every year Roar comment the matches in the Champions League for the Norwegian channel viasat, and is famous for his extraordinary quotes.
References
[edit]- ^ "Strindheim videre" (in Norwegian). Norwegian News Agency. 8 July 1987.
- ^ "2. divisjon menn". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). 27 April 1988. p. 40.
- ^ Eriksen, Arvid; Mathisen, Bo (23 May 1993). "Teppet opp for en ny Haagenrud". VG (in Norwegian). p. 43.
- ^ Nesbø, Knut (31 July 1994). "Et trøndersk fotballunder på gang: Tre lag i Eliteserien?". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). p. 17.
- ^ Medby, Are (14 October 1994). "Økonomisk jubelsesong". Nordlys (in Norwegian). p. 32.
- ^ "Nardos trener trekker seg" (in Norwegian). Norwegian News Agency. 17 September 1995.
- ^ "Tar opp arven etter "Gle" i TV3". VG (in Norwegian). 10 October 2001. p. 59.
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