Thorodd Presberg (born 18 January 1944 in

Drammen Drammen () is a city and municipality in Buskerud county, Norway. The port and river city of Drammen is centrally located in the south-eastern and most populated part of Norway. Drammen municipality also includes smaller towns and villages such ...

) is a Norwegian former

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and

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player. A

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, he played football for Drafn from 1960 to 1963 and for

Strømsgodset Strømsgodset is a former municipality in Vestfold county (from 1964 Buskerud county) in Norway which is today a part of the city of Drammen. History Strømsgodset was originally a small rural annex to the city parish of Bragernes (Drammen). ...

from 1963 till 1973. He played 234 top class games, scoring 125 goals, and he won three Norwegian cup championships and one league championship. He also played four matches and scored one goal for the Norwegian national team. He later became a referee at Norwegian elite leveland was FIFA referee for ten years, and lead the Norwegian cup final in 1983 and in 1988 He managed

Strømsgodset IF Strømsgodset IF is a Norwegian multi-sports club from Gulskogen in Drammen. It has sections for association football, handball and bandy, but is best known for the top-level football section known as Strømsgodset Toppfotball, which plays in Elit ...

from 1976 to 1977.

Bandy

Five Norwegian championships in Bandy for Strømsgodset and one for Drafn, and finished his career at Bragerøen before starting as coach. He played 29 national team matches, was an international bandy referee and took charge of the Norwegian bandy final in 1987. Presberg was a silver medalist in the 1965 Bandy World Championship. In 1986, he coached his former club Drafn to the League Championship.

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Living people 1944 births Norwegian men's footballers Footballers from Drammen Men's association football forwards Norway men's international footballers Strømsgodset Toppfotball players Norwegian football managers Strømsgodset Toppfotball managers Norwegian football referees Norwegian bandy players 20th-century Norwegian sportsmen {{Norway-bandy-bio-stub