Arild Andresen was a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 football and ice hockey

Ice hockey

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 player who played for Vålerenga

Vålerengens IF

Vålerengens Idrettsforening is a Norwegian multi-sports club from the neighborhood Vålerenga in Oslo, founded on 29 July 1913.It has sections for football, ice hockey, american football, handball, floorball and skiing...

 in both sports.

For the football team, he made his debut in 1948, in the inaugural season of the Norwegian Main League

Norwegian Premier League

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. He was capped once for Norway

Norway national football team

The Norway national football team represents Norway in association football and is controlled by the Football Association of Norway, the governing body for football in Norway. Norway's home ground is Ullevaal Stadion in Oslo and their head coach is Egil Olsen...

; in 1950, against Sweden

Sweden national football team

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. He retired after the 1954 season.

He also played for the club's hockey team

Vålerenga Ishockey

Vålerenga Ishockey is an Oslo-based ice hockey club, and a part of the Vålerenga IF multi-sports club. Their home arena is Jordal Amfi, located in eastern Oslo. Jordal Amfi was built for the 1952 Winter Olympics. The mother club was founded in 1913, but the did not take up ice hockey until the late...

. His brothers Thorbjørn (1919–1998) and Ivar (1921–2004) played football for Vålerenga.

Andresen died on 27 December 2008, a few weeks after his eightieth birthday.