Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson

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Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson
Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson

Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson on April 18, 2007
in the Mannheim SAP Arena

Player information
birthday August 8, 1979
place of birth Reykjavík , Iceland
citizenship IcelandersIcelanders Icelandic
height 1.87 m
Playing position Left winger
  Back center
Throwing hand right
Club information
society Career ended
Clubs as active
from ... to society
1986-1991 IcelandIceland Grótta Seltjarnarnes
1991-1998 IcelandIceland Grótta KR
1998-2001 IcelandIceland KA Akureyri
2001-2005 GermanyGermany TUSEM food
2005-2008 GermanyGermany VfL Gummersbach
2008-2011 GermanyGermany Rhine-Neckar lion
2011–2012 DenmarkDenmark AG København
2012-2014 GermanyGermany THW Kiel
2014-2016 SpainSpain FC Barcelona
2016-2019 GermanyGermany Rhine-Neckar lion
2019-2020 FranceFrance Paris Saint-Germain
National team
Debut on December 15, 1999
against ItalyItaly Italy
  Games (goals)
IcelandIceland Iceland 364 (1875)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to society
2020– GermanyGermany VfL Gummersbach

As of July 4, 2020

Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson (born August 8, 1979 in Reykjavík ) is a former Icelandic handball player . In the Icelandic national team he played on the left winger position . He is now working as a handball trainer.

Career

society

Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson began playing handball at Grótta Seltjarnarnes in 1986, which he left in 1991 in the direction of Grótta KR . From the 1995/96 season Guðjón was used in the men's team of Grótta KR, which competed in the highest Icelandic league. In 1997, the winger rose with Grótta in the second highest Icelandic league, but he stayed with the club for another year. In 1998 Guðjón moved to KA Akureyri , with whom he won the championship in 2001. In the same year, the two-time Icelandic handball player of the year went to Germany. In the first few years he played for the Bundesliga club TUSEM Essen , with which he won the EHF Cup in 2005. In the same year he moved to VfL Gummersbach. Here he was the top scorer in the Bundesliga with a total of 264 goals at the end of his first season . For the 2008/09 season he went to competitor Rhein-Neckar Löwen . After three years, Sigurðsson moved to the Danish first division club AG København in the summer of 2011 . From the 2012/13 season he ran for the THW Kiel , with which he was German champion twice. For the 2014/15 season he moved to the Spanish league ASOBAL for FC Barcelona . With Barcelona he won the championship in 2015 and 2016 and the EHF Champions League in 2015 . For the 2016/17 season Sigurðsson returned to the Rhein-Neckar Löwen as a replacement for Uwe Gensheimer , with whom he became German champion in 2017. In the 2019/20 season, Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson played for Paris Saint-Germain . With Paris he won the French championship in 2020. Then he ended his career.

National team

In the Icelandic national team Guðjón played 364 international matches, in which he threw 1,875 goals. Since June 7, 2014 he has been Iceland's record scorer ahead of Ólafur Stefánsson (1,570). With 66 goals he was the top scorer at the 2007 World Cup in Germany. At the 2008 Olympic Games , he won the silver medal with the Icelandic team. He was also selected as the best left winger in the “ All-Star Team ”, as well as at the 2012 and 2014 European Championships . At the Olympic Games in London in 2012 , he won preliminary group A with Iceland without losing points, but narrowly failed in the quarter-finals to Hungary.

At the 2018 European Championship , he overtook Hungary's Péter Kovács with 1798 goals as the player with the most international goals.

Coaching

Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson took over the coaching position at VfL Gummersbach for the 2020/21 season.

Others

In 2006, Guðjón was voted Icelandic Sportsman of the Year by Icelandic sports journalists . With 405 points, he won the election in front of football player Eiður Guðjohnsen , who received 333 points.

Guðjón is married and has two daughters and a son.

Seasonal balance sheets

season society Division Games Gates 7 meters Field gates
1995/96 Grótta KR N1 deild karla 10 0 - -
1996/97 Grótta KR N1 deild karla 22nd 44 - -
1997/98 Grótta KR 2. deild karla 16 100 - -
1998/99 KA Akureyri N1 deild karla 18th 25th - -
1999/2000 KA Akureyri N1 deild karla 21st 95 - -
2000/01 KA Akureyri N1 deild karla 21st 139 - -
2001/02 TuSEM food Bundesliga 34 72 4th 68
2002/03 TuSEM food Bundesliga 32 123 0 123
2003/04 TuSEM food Bundesliga 34 126 1 125
2004/05 TuSEM food Bundesliga 34 177 1 176
2005/06 VfL Gummersbach Bundesliga 34 263 70 193
2006/07 VfL Gummersbach Bundesliga 34 221 4th 217
2007/08 VfL Gummersbach Bundesliga 26th 151 31 120
2008/09 Rhine-Neckar lion Bundesliga 33 193 71 122
2009/10 Rhine-Neckar lion Bundesliga 18th 53 0 53
2010/11 Rhine-Neckar lion Bundesliga 17th 44 0 44
2011/12 AG København Håndboldligaen 31 142 0 142
2012/13 THW Kiel Bundesliga 34 77 0 77
2013/14 THW Kiel Bundesliga 33 122 1 121
1995-2014 total 2. deild karla
N1 deild karla
Bundesliga
Håndboldligaen 		16
92
363
31 		100
303
1622
142 		-
-
183
0 		-
-
1439
142

  • Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson

  • Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson, in an interview

  • Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson at the Schlecker Cup 2007

  • Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson at the Schlecker Cup 2007

successes

Web links

Commons : Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b handball-world.news: Champions in five countries and Olympic silver: Gudjon Valur Sigurdsson with the end of his career, accessed on April 29, 2020
  2. ↑ archiv.thw-handball.de: TUSEM Essen season 2001/2002 opponents , accessed on September 9, 2019
  3. ↑ handball-world.news: Sigurdsson from the new season at the Rhein Neckar Löwen , accessed on April 13, 2018
  4. ↑ handballmagazin.com
  5. ↑ handball-world.com: Kiel confirms transfer from Sigurdsson viewed on December 31, 2015
  6. ↑ www.fcbarcelona.es Gudjón Valur Sigurdsson, nuevo jugador del FC Barcelona de balonmano (Spanish) from June 6, 2014, accessed on June 6, 2014
  7. ↑ handball-world.news: Castling complete - Paris presents Gudjon Valur Sigurdsson as Gensheimer's replacement , accessed on January 30, 2019
  8. ↑ Handball World Cup 2007 , accessed on September 13, 2012
  9. ↑ Top favorites reach main round sport1.de, January 14, 2018.
  10. ↑ vfl-gummersbach.de: Gudjon Valur Sigurdsson new coach at VfL Gummersbach , accessed on May 4, 2020
  11. ↑ www.focus.de: Great honor for Gummersbach's Sigurdsson , accessed on April 13, 2018
Note: Icelanders are referred to by their first name or first and last name, but not just their surname. Further information can be found under Icelandic personal name .
personal data
SURNAME Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Icelandic handball player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Reykjavík , Iceland