Erik Francisco Solér (born 6 August 1960) is a Norwegian former professional footballer, a former football agent, and former General Manager and Sporting Director of New York Red Bulls as well as a football commentator for Champions League and national team games on Norwegian TV on a part-time basis. He is educated as a psychologist.
Oddvar Stenstrøm (born 5 March 1946) is a Norwegian journalist and former host of the TV2 debate program Holmgang.
Stenstrøm has worked in a number of different journals and news channels, including the local newspaper Akers Avis/Groruddalens Budstikke, the national tabloids Dagbladet and Verdens Gang (the latter as head of foreign news) and as news editor for Aftenposten.
In television media, Stenstrøm has had several jobs for NRK between 1975 and 1987, and for TV2 from 1992. For NRK he has been the Washington D.C. correspondent, and head of the editorial board for the news broadcasts. For TV2 Stenstrøm was the editorial project leader from 1991 to 1992, before becoming Washington correspondent in 1997. He took over the Holmgang program after Nils Gunnar Lie in 1998, and held that until the program was shut down in 2008.As host for Holmgang, Stenstrøm was frequently under fire for what was perceived as frequently oversimplified topics, a genre viewed to favor the Progress Party. Among the criticisms were allegations from electoral researcher Frank Aarebrot that the program promoted racism, an allegation Stenstrøm strongly denounced. In an interview before Holmgang was over, Stenstrøm pointed out that one of the programs had been on the needed work foreigners do, titled "Uten innvandrere stopper Norge" ("Without foreigners, Norway stops").
Marit Christensen (11 November 1948 – 30 September 2022) was a Norwegian journalist.
Christensen was a cand.mag. by education. She worked for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation between 1977 and 2002. Here, she was a journalist, correspondent in Moscow from 1984 to 1988, and presenter for the entertainment shows For galleriet (1992–1993) and Apropos (1998–1999). Her time in Moscow earned her the nickname "Moskva-Marit" ("Moscow Marit").On 17 August 2013, Christensen disclosed that for the last year of Wenche Behring Breivik's life, the mother of Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, Christensen had been her confidant. The book was published in the autumn 2013, under the title "The Mother".
Ingebrigt Steen Jensen (born 9 May 1955) is a Norwegian writer, consultant, advertising man and football official.Steen Jensen is educated at the University of Oslo where he studied English, Norwegian, and political science.
He has worked in advertising since 1982. During the 1990s Steen Jensen took part in the building of JBR advertising agency, which was sold to IPG (InterPublic Group) under the name McCann-Erickson Advertising; now known as McCann Worldgroup, Norway, and Dinamo. He has worked both for and in Stabæk Fotball for a number of years. He is otherwise known for his book Ona fyr ("Ona lighthouse") from 2002, which is about leadership, leadership techniques and motivation. He is also a sought-after motivational speaker and lecturer.
Since the late 1990s he has participated in several television programs, as well as being the host for a quiz show on TV Norge.
Toppen Bech (28 March 1939 – 5 February 2024) was a Norwegian journalist.
Frédéric Anton (French pronunciation: [fʁedeʁik ɑ̃tɔ̃], born 15 October 1964) is a French chef, Meilleur Ouvrier de France and three stars at the Guide Michelin since 2007. He was the chef of the restaurant Le Pré Catelan in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. He is now the chef at Le Jules Verne restaurant located in the Eiffel Tower (since 2020).
Grégoire Margotton (born 9 November 1969) is a French sports journalist who has worked for French television channels Canal+ and TF1. Since 2018, he has been the main presenter of the TF1 football programme Téléfoot.
