Øyvind Alsaker (born 16 August 1965) is a sports journalist and television personality from

Florø is a town and the administrative centre of the municipality of Kinn which is in Vestland county, Norway. The town was founded by royal decree in 1860 as a ladested on the island of Florelandet, located between the Botnafjorden and Solheimsfjord ...

Sogn og Fjordane Sogn og Fjordane (; literally "Parish and the Fjords") was a Counties of Norway, county in western Norway, from 1 January 1919 to 31 December 2019, after it was merged to become part of Vestland county. Bordering previous counties Møre og Romsda ...

. He has been a football commentator for TV2 and Canal +. He has commented on games from the English

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for years. Alsaker was involved in controversy when he and co-commentator

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were revealed to be making derogatory and racist remarks during the pre-match warm-up between sides

Rosenborg BK Rosenborg Ballklub, commonly referred to simply as Rosenborg () or RBK, is a Norwegian professional association football, football club from Trondheim that plays in Eliteserien (football), Eliteserien. The club has won a record 26 league titles ...

and

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on 17 October 2010. He was also TV2's main commentator in Germany during the

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in 2006, and commentated on the majority of the games that were played. He has openly stated that he is a

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supporter. Alsaker worked for several years as a journalist, newsreader and presenter at NRK's regional office in

Hordaland Hordaland () was a county in Norway, bordering Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Telemark, and Rogaland counties. Hordaland was the third largest county, after Akershus and Oslo, by population. The county government was the Hordaland County Munici ...

, before joining TV2 at the start of 1992. In his first year with the channel Alsaker fulfilled many roles including sports anchor and skiing commentator next to his main job as a football commentator. He was employed by Canal + in 1998, but returned to TV2 in 2006. He has continued to commentate on English football on Canal + after his return to TV2. Alsaker also commented on

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in Switzerland and Austria together with Nils Johan Semb and

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