Frank Willy Olafsen (born 20 April 1944) is a Norwegian former
football
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player,
bandy
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player and
ice hockey
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player. With his club
Skeid
Skeid is a Norwegian alliance sports club from Nordre Åsen, Oslo. It has sections for association football (one for elite and one for grassroots football), Nordic skiing and bandy.
General history
The club was founded as ''IK Skeid'' on 5 De ...
he won the
Norwegian Football Cup
The Norwegian Football Cup ( no, Norgesmesterskapet i fotball for herrer) is the main knockout cup competition in Norwegian football. It is run by the Football Association of Norway and has been contested since 1902, making it the oldest football ...
three times, in
1963
Events January
* January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cov ...
,
1965
Events January–February
* January 14 – The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years.
* January 20
** Lyndon B. Johnson is Second inauguration of Lyndo ...
and
1974, and the
league
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* Sports league
* Rugby league, full contact footba ...
in
1966. He played for the
Norwegian national ice hockey team
The Norway men's national ice hockey team is the national ice hockey team from Norway that participates at the IIHF World Championships. The team is governed by the Norwegian Ice Hockey Association and is coached by Petter Thoresen.
History
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, and participated at the
Winter Olympics
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in 1964, where he placed tenth with the Norwegian team.
He played eighteen matches for the
national football team, and five matches for the
national bandy team.
References
External links
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1944 births
Living people
Ice hockey players at the 1964 Winter Olympics
Norwegian bandy players
Association football defenders
Norwegian footballers
Skeid Fotball players
Eliteserien players
Norwegian ice hockey players
Olympic ice hockey players of Norway
Sportspeople from Oslo
Norway international footballers
20th-century Norwegian people
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