The Players is a Norwegian musical project consisting of five professional
footballers
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Freddy dos Santos
Freddy dos Santos (born 2 October 1976 in Oslo) is a Norwegian former footballer who played most of his career for Vålerenga in the Norwegian Premier League.
Dos Santos has played as a defender, midfield and forward. His former clubs are Skeid ...
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Morten Gamst Pedersen
Morten Gamst Pedersen (born 8 September 1981) is a Norwegian professional footballer who last played as a midfielder for Åsane.
Pedersen began his career with Tromsø, then played for English side Blackburn Rovers between 2004 and 2013. He the ...
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Raymond Kvisvik
Raymond Kvisvik (born 8 November 1974) is a Norwegian former professional footballer who played as a winger. He is most noted for his spells at Brann, but he did also play for Moss, Austria Wien and Fredrikstad. Kvisvik won the Norwegian Cup ...
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Kristofer Hæstad
Kristofer Krüger Hæstad (born 9 December 1983) is a Norwegian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
Early life
Hæstad was born in Kristiansand, Agder.
Club career Early career
Hæstad played for the youth teams of Randes ...
and
Øyvind Svenning.
They released the single "This Is For Real" with proceeds from sale of the single going to the
Red Cross
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charity project called
Soccer Against Crime.
Norwegian musical groups
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