Hannes Jón Jónsson

Hannes Jón Jónsson

Player information
birthday	23rd February 1980 (age 40)
place of birth	Reykjavík , Iceland
citizenship	Icelandic
height	1.86 m
Playing position	Back center
Throwing hand	right
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
0000-2003	UMF Selfoss
2003-2005	Íþróttafélag Reykjavíkur
2005-2007	Ajax København
2007-2007	Elverum Håndball
2007-2008	Fredericia HK
2008–2012	TSV Hannover-Burgdorf
2012-2015	ThSV Eisenach
2015-2016	SG Handball West Vienna
National team
	Games (goals)
Iceland	36 (43)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to	society
2015-2019	SG Handball West Vienna
2019–	SG BBM Bietigheim
As of February 7, 2019

Hannes Jón Jónsson (born February 23, 1980 in Reykjavík ) is an Icelandic handball player and coach .

Hannes Jón Jónsson moved from UMF Selfoss to Íþróttafélag Reykjavíkur (ÍR for short) in 2003 . In 2005 he signed a contract with the Danish club Ajax København . After Ajax ran into financial difficulties, he joined the Norwegian club Elverum Håndball in February 2007. In the summer of the same year he moved to Fredericia HK in Denmark. In 2008 the back player joined TSV Hannover-Burgdorf , with whom he was promoted to the Bundesliga in 2009 . From the 2012/13 season Hannes Jón Jónsson was under contract with the second division ThSV Eisenach . At the end of the 2012/2013 season, Jónsson was voted Player of the Season. In the summer of 2015, Hannes Jón Jónsson moved to the Austrian first division club SG Handball West Wien , where he worked as a player-coach before he dedicated himself exclusively to coaching from 2016. Until January 2019 he coached the SG Handball West Vienna. A month later he took over the coaching position from the German Bundesliga club SG BBM Bietigheim .

Hannes Jón Jónsson played 36 caps for the Icelandic national team , in which he scored 43 goals. With Iceland he took part in the 2008 European handball championship .

In October 2012, Hannes Jón Jónsson was diagnosed with malignant tumors in the bladder, which were surgically removed on October 19, 2012. Jónsson is married and has two children.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ hsi.is: A landslið karla
2. ↑ timarit.is: Article in Dagblaðið Vísir from September 17, 2003
3. ↑ msi.is: Hannes Jón til Ajax
4. ↑ msi.is: Hannes Jón kominn til Elverum
5. ↑ msi.is: Hannes Jón Jónsson samdi við Hannover-Burgdorf
6. ↑ www.handball-world.com: Eisenach announces a new addition - club has "black zero" , accessed on December 22, 2016
7. ↑ Jónsson voted Player of the Season by ThSV , accessed on June 3, 2013
8. ↑ handball-world.com: West Vienna with an Icelandic player-coach from Germany , accessed on January 30, 2015
9. ↑ Sparring in an emergency. vn.at, accessed on March 16, 2017 . 
10. ↑ handball-world.news: Change of coach at SG Insignis Handball Westwien , accessed on January 8, 2019
11. ↑ handball-world.news: New head coach: SG BBM Bietigheim confirms Hannes Jon Jonsson's commitment , accessed on February 7, 2019
12. ↑ www.altomfotball.no: Hannes Jón Jónsson
13. ↑ Declaration of ThSV Eisenach and its player Hannes Jon Jonsson called on October 24, 2012
14. ↑ The move to Eisenach was correct , accessed on February 19, 2013

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 .