Ásta Breiðfjörð Gunnlaugsdóttir

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Ásta Gunnlaugsdottir
Personnel
Surname Ásta Breiðfjörð Gunnlaugsdóttir
birthday May 13, 1961
place of birth Iceland
position attack
Women
Years station Games (goals) 1
1973-1995 Breiðablik Kópavogur 56 (34)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1981-1994 Iceland 26 0(8)
1 Only league games are given.

Ásta Breiðfjörð Gunnlaugsdóttir (born May 13, 1961 ) is a former Icelandic soccer player . Ásta was a national player from the very beginning, the first record scorer and the first sole record national player for the Icelandic national team . In 1994 she was the first and only woman Iceland's footballer of the year (from 1997 there was a separate election for female footballers). During her playing days she played exclusively for Breiðablik Kópavogur .

Career

society

Ásta, who in her youth played handball and athletics in addition to soccer , first played for Breiðablik Kópavogur in 1973 at the age of 13 . In 1974 she won a 60-meter run in 8.2 seconds in a competition in Norway . In 1977 she won her first championship with the club, which was to be followed by ten more. In 1981 she won the first ever Icelandic Women's Football Cup with Breiðablik. 1982 and 1983 this success could be repeated, where she was one of the top scorers in the finals in 1981 and 1983. She was also the top scorer with record champions Breiðablik Kópavogur in 1981 and 1982 with 33 and 15 goals respectively. 1987 Breiðablik rose but from the second division, in which she had a significant share in the recovery as top scorer. However, only a few detailed data are available for the period before 1990.

In 1990 she was only used in the first three league games, so could only contribute little to achieving the first championship title after seven years without a title. In 1991, however, she was only missing on the 10th matchday and was the top scorer of her team with seven goals and thus significantly involved in the defense of the championship title. In 1992 she was used in all league games and was fourth-best goalscorer in the league with 12 goals. Her new team-mate Olga Færseth scored one more goal. But they lost the cup final with 2: 3 and the Supercup game with 0: 3 against ÍA Akranes . In 1993 it was only enough for the runner-up, as she and Olga each scored five goals less than in 1992. In contrast, they were able to win the Supercup by beating ÍA 4-2. In 1994 they regained the championship. She could only contribute seven goals, but Olga was top scorer with 24 goals. They also won the cup again after 11 years with a 1-0 win against KR Reykjavík . In 1995 she was only substituted on the fourth day of play for the final quarter of an hour, Breiðablik was unbeaten champion, but lost the Supercup game and in the cup semi-finals against KR.

In total, she scored 206 goals in 181 games for Breiðablik and was inducted into the club's Hall of Fame in 2015.

National team

Ásta played in the Icelanders' first international match on September 20, 1981 and was one of the two Icelandic goalscorers in the 3-2 draw against Scotland and was immediately in the starting line-up, as in most of their other games. It took almost eleven months until the next game of the Icelanders, but Ásta was there again and scored her second international goal in a 2-2 win against Norway . From then on she was the record scorer and extended the record to eight goals by the end of her career. With her eighth international game on August 17, 1985, she was then the sole record national player. She had previously shared the record with goalkeeper Guðríður Guðjónsdóttir and Magnea Helga Magnúsdóttir , who were the only ones who had played all games with her since the first game, but then ended their careers (Guðríður) or suspended for the first time. Ásta then increased the record in a time with an average of two games per year to October 30, 1994 to 26 games and was only three times not used when she was pregnant. She remained a record national player until October 7, 1995 and was then replaced by Vanda Sigurgeirsdóttir , who expanded the record to 37 games. A game later, she lost her goal record to Ásthildur Helgadóttir , who overtook her with two goals on March 11, 1996 and then expanded the record to 22 international goals. Both had played together with Ásta.

For a European Championship or World Cup finals, she was never able to qualify with Iceland. In the first qualification for the European Championship in 1984 , the Icelanders were last in a group with the three Scandinavian teams. They did not participate in the qualifications for the 1987 , 1989 and 1991 finals. In qualifying for the European Championship in 1993 , they failed in the group phase and in qualifying for the European Championship in 1995 in the quarter-finals to England and were therefore not qualified for the 1995 World Cup. With the quarter-final second leg against England, in which she scored her last international goal, she ended her career at the age of 33.

It was only 14 years later that the Icelanders were able to qualify for the 2009 European Championship for the first time .

successes

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ data from 1990
  2. ↑ a b c d blikar.is: "Ásta B og Siggi Grétars tekin inn í Frægðarhöll knattspyrnudeildar Breiðabliks"
  3. ↑ Iceland - List of Cup Finals (Women)
  4. ↑ Markahæstu menn - Íslandsmót - 1st deild kvenna
  5. ↑ Markahæstu menn - Íslandsmót - 1st deild kvenna
  6. ^ Iceland (Women) 1988

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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 Ásta Breiðfjörð Gunnlaugsdóttir
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Asta Breidfjörd Gunnlaugsdotti; Asta B. Gunnlaugsdottir
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Icelandic soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Iceland