Dag Vidar Kristoffersen (born 1957 in Drammen

Drammen

Drammen is a city in Buskerud County, Norway. The port and river city of Drammen is centrally located in the eastern and most populated part of Norway.-Location:...

) is 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 coach, best known for his time in Strømsgodset

Strømsgodset I.F.

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

 where he led the team to two silver medals in the Norwegian Football Cup

Norwegian football cup

The Norwegian Football Cup is the main knockout cup competition in Norwegian football. It is run by the Football Association of Norway and has been contested since 1902, making it the oldest football tournament in the country. The tournament is commonly known as Cupen or NM, an acronym formed...

 and bronze medals in the Premier League. Kristoffersen is a former football and bandy

Bandy

Bandy is a team winter sport played on ice, in which skaters use sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal.The rules of the game have many similarities to those of association football: the game is played on a rectangle of ice the same size as a football field. Each team has 11 players,...

 player, having represented Drafn in both sports.

He collected silver and bronze medals in bandy World Cups in 1976 and 1977, in the one instance scoring the decisive goal. He currently coaches Drammen Bandy

Drammen Bandy

Drammen Bandy are a bandy club from Drammen, Norway, formed on 16 June 1997 as a cooperation between several teams in the city.They play in the Norwegian Bandy Premier League. Their current head coach is former football manager Dag Vidar Kristoffersen....

.

Kristoffersen suffered a stroke

Stroke

A stroke, previously known medically as a cerebrovascular accident , is the rapidly developing loss of brain function due to disturbance in the blood supply to the brain. This can be due to ischemia caused by blockage , or a hemorrhage...

 in 2002, leaving him unable to speak. After a year he was back coaching football with Larvik FC, and had made a 100% recovery.