Dag Lyseid (12 February 1954 – 2 January 2013) was a Norwegian footballer and politician for the Labour Party. He played as a defender for

SFK Lyn Ski- og Fotballklubben Lyn () is a Norwegian alliance sports club from Nordre Aker, Oslo. It has two sections; for association football and Nordic skiing. Until 2010 they had a third section, for top-level association football, named FK Lyn. In t ...

between 1973 and 1982, the first and sixth season in the

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(highest tier). He made his debut against

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in May 1973, and played 117 league games and 15 cup games for Lyn, never scoring a goal. He grew up at

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, and studied in Oslo and Trondheim. He settled in

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, where he was a sheep farmer at Stordalen and eventually entered the civil service. From 1992 to 1994 he served as director of health and social services in Meråker Municipality. He was later personnel director and faculty director at the

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and NTNU, later in the

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. As a politician he was elected to the

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for

in 1995, serving as deputy mayor from 1999 to 2008. He then went on a hiatus to concentrate on his Labour and Welfare Administration job. In the

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he made a comeback and was elected to

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. He died in January 2013.

References

1954 births 2013 deaths Footballers from Oslo Norwegian men's footballers Lyn Fotball players Eliteserien players Norwegian civil servants Labour Party (Norway) politicians Politicians from Nord-Trøndelag Men's association football defenders People from Meråker 20th-century Norwegian sportsmen {{Norway-footy-defender-stub