Roar Hagen (born August 9, 1971) is a retired

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. He started his career in Tistedalens TIF, but went on to larger club

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. He was the youngest squad member for Norway in the

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. After the 1990 season he was bought by

SK Brann Sportsklubben Brann (commonly known as Brann, and less often as SK Brann) is a Norwegian professional football club, founded 26 September 1908, from Bergen. Brann had been in the Eliteserien, Norway's Premier Division of Football, since 1987, bar ...

, but after a few months he returned to Fredrikstad. However, Fredrikstad had already secured a replacement for Hagen, and so Hagen was loaned out to

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. Already in April 1991 he returned to Fredrikstad, but in July 1991 he left again. Before the 1992 season he joined Sogndal IL, and played in the

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, but the team was relegated. After the 1993 season he was replaced with Andre Ulla, and returned to Tistedalen. He then faded into football obscurity.

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