Roar Stokke

Roar Stokke (born 1959) is a Norwegian football player, coach and commentator.

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 Th. 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]

References

  1. ↑ "Strindheim videre" (in Norwegian). Norwegian News Agency. 8 July 1987.
  2. ↑ "2. divisjon menn". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). 27 April 1988. p. 40.
  3. ↑ Eriksen, Arvid; Mathisen, Bo (23 May 1993). "Teppet opp for en ny Haagenrud". VG (in Norwegian). p. 43.
  4. ↑ Nesbø, Knut (31 July 1994). "Et trøndersk fotballunder på gang: Tre lag i Eliteserien?". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). p. 17.
  5. ↑ Medby, Are (14 October 1994). "Økonomisk jubelsesong". Nordlys (in Norwegian). p. 32.
  6. ↑ "Nardos trener trekker seg" (in Norwegian). Norwegian News Agency. 17 September 1995.
  7. ↑ "Tar opp arven etter "Gle" i TV3". VG (in Norwegian). 10 October 2001. p. 59.