Morgan Andersen
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Morgan Andersen is a retired Norwegian ice hockey
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 player.

He hails from Yven in Tune
Tune, Norway
Tune is a former municipality in Østfold county, Norway. The former municipality originally covered the current Sarpsborg municipality with the exception of Skjeberg and with the addition of Rolvsøy.-History:...

. During his active ice hockey career he played for Stjernen, Mora IK
Mora IK
Mora Ishockeyklubb is a Swedish professional ice hockey club from Mora, Sweden. They are currently playing in the second highest league in Sweden, HockeyAllsvenskan...

 and Lillehammer IK. He last played for Stjernen in 1998. He played for the Norwegian national ice hockey team at the 1988
1988 Winter Olympics
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, 1992
1992 Winter Olympics
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 and 1994 Winter Olympics
1994 Winter Olympics
The 1994 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVII Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event celebrated from 12 to 27 February 1994 in and around Lillehammer, Norway. Lillehammer failed to win the bid for the 1992 event. Lillehammer was awarded the games in 1988, after having beat...

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After retiring he has worked as a sports official and coach. He is a former sports mangager for the football club FK Lyn, and was involved in the transfer controversies around player John Obi Mikel. He has also led the trade union for Norwegian sportspeople, Norske Idrettsutøveres Sentralorganisasjon, and after his period in Lyn he became sports manager and assistant coach for Stjernen Hockey. In 2009 he was promoted to head coach.
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