Fossum Idrettsforening is a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 sports club from Fossum, Grini

Grini

Grini prison camp was a Nazi concentration camp in Bærum, Norway, which operated between 1941 and May 1945.-History:Grini was originally built as a women's prison, near an old croft named Ilen , on land bought from the Løvenskiold family by the Norwegian state...

, Østerås

Østerås

Østerås is a village in Akershus, Norway....

 and Eiksmarka

Eiksmarka

Eiksmarka is a suburb of the Norwegian municipality of Bærum with around 4,000 inhabitants, just west of Oslo. It is served by Eiksmarka station.It is an affluent area in the most expensive part of Bærum, north of the borough of Jar...

 in Bærum

Bærum

is a municipality in Akershus county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Sandvika. Bærum was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838. A suburb of Oslo, Bærum is located on the west coast of the city....

. It has sections for cross-country skiing

Cross-country skiing

Cross-country skiing is a winter sport in which participants propel themselves across snow-covered terrain using skis and poles...

, biathlon

Biathlon

Biathlon is a term used to describe any sporting event made up of two disciplines. However, biathlon usually refers specifically to the winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting...

, ski jumping

Ski jumping

Ski jumping is a sport in which skiers go down a take-off ramp, jump and attempt to land as far as possible down the hill below. In addition to the length of the jump, judges give points for style. The skis used for ski jumping are wide and long...

, alpine skiing

Alpine skiing

Alpine skiing is the sport of sliding down snow-covered hills on skis with fixed-heel bindings. Alpine skiing can be contrasted with skiing using free-heel bindings: Ski mountaineering and nordic skiing – such as cross-country; ski jumping; and Telemark. In competitive alpine skiing races four...

, Nordic combined

Nordic combined

The Nordic combined is a winter sport in which athletes compete in both cross-country skiing and ski jumping.- History :While Norwegian soldiers are known to have been competing in Nordic skiing since the 19th century, the first major competition in Nordic combined was held in 1892 in Oslo at the...

, orienteering

Orienteering

Orienteering is a family of sports that requires navigational skills using a map and compass to navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain, and normally moving at speed. Participants are given a topographical map, usually a specially prepared orienteering map, which they...

 and football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

, and was founded on 7 December 1918. It formerly had an athletics section.

The cross-country skiing section has prominent members like Tore Bjonviken and Simen Østensen

Simen Østensen

Simen Østensen is a Norwegian cross-country skier. He skies with the club Fossum IF.He finished third in the 2006-07 Tour de Ski...

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The football team, while not playing at the highest level, has had particularly many well-known coaches, such as Egil Olsen

Egil Olsen

Egil Roger Olsen , nicknamed Drillo, is a Norwegian association football manager and former Norwegian football player. He is best known as a highly successful coach of the Norwegian national football team. He has since been coach of the Iraqi national football team, his departure from which caused...

, Per Mathias Høgmo and Per Ravn Omdal

Per Ravn Omdal

Per Ravn Omdal is a former president of the Football Association of Norway. He's also been the vice president of UEFA since 1996....

. The men's team currently resides in the Third Division (fourth tier of Norwegian football), having last played in the Second Division in the 2000 season

2000 Norwegian Second Division

The 2000 season of the 2. divisjon, the third highest football league for men in Norway.22 games were played in 8 groups, with 3 points given for wins and 1 for draws...

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