Ásthildur Helgadóttir

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Ásthildur Helgadóttir
Personnel
birthday May 9, 1976
place of birth Reykjavík ,  Iceland
size 178 cm
position Midfield / attack
Women
Years station Games (goals) 1
1991-1992 Breiðablik Kópavogur 28 0(7)
1993-1994 KR Reykjavík 25 (23)
1995-1997 Breiðablik Kópavogur 35 (31)
1998-2000 KR Reykjavík 34 (34)
2001 ÍBV Vestmannaeyjar 5 0(2)
2001 Carolina Courage
2001 Boston Renegades
2002-2003 KR Reykjavík 26 (36)
2003-2007 Malmö FF Dam / LdB FC Malmö at least 30 (at least 45)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1991-1992 Iceland U-17 10 0(1)
1993-1996, 1998 Iceland U-21 20 0(7)
1993-2007 Iceland 69 (23)
1 Only league games are given.

Ásthildur "Asta" Helgadóttir (born May 9, 1976 in Reykjavík ) is a former Icelandic football player and four times "Footballer of the Year". Playing in midfield and attacking , Ásthildur was used for the Icelandic national team between 1993 and 2007 . At times she was the record goal scorer and captain in 34 games . At club level, she played mostly for Breiðablik Kópavogur and KR Reykjavík , with whom she celebrated several championships and cup wins in Iceland. She also played for several years in the Swedish Damallsvenskan for Malmö FF Dam and LdB FC Malmö (now FC Rosengård), where she was one of the most successful goal scorers.

Career

society

Ásthildur started playing football at the age of ten and made his debut for Breiðablik Kópavogur in 1991 for Breiðablik Kópavogur in the Icelandic league at the age of 15 and was instant champion with the club, but could not yet contribute a goal. The following year the title could be defended and Ásthildur scored seven goals. But they lost both the cup final and the Supercup final to ÍA Akranes . She was then voted “Player of the Year” in the “Young Player” category. For the 1993 season she moved to KR Reykjavík , where she only scored four goals, but immediately became champions with the new club. In the cup, however, they failed in the first round. For this they won the Supercup in 1994 with 3-1 against ÍA Akranes, where they managed to equalize 1: 1 after 0-1 deficit. In the league she was the second best goalscorer with 19 goals, but her old club snatched the title away from them. She then returned to Breiðablik to become a master there again in 1995. KR Reykjavík won the Supercup again, although they only found their way into the game statistics with a yellow card in the final . In the following season she was able to win the double from the championship and the cup for the first time and with 17 goals became the league's top scorer. She was then chosen for the first time and as the youngest player to date for "Iceland's Footballer of the Year".

From 1997 to 2001 she studied at Vanderbilt University in the USA , but initially continued to play at home during the holidays. 1997 was less successful for her: she only scored five goals in the league and “only” the runner-up, but at least the cup could be defended. Then she moved again to KR Reykjavík and helped win the championship with ten goals. They lost the cup final against their old club without their involvement. In 1999 she won the double with KR, although she had scored four goals in the semi-finals and quarter-finals of the Cup, but was not used in the final. In the 2000 season she was the third-best goalscorer with 18 goals, but only the runner-up jumped out for KR.

This was followed by a short interlude at ÍBV Vestmannaeyjar , where she was only used in five games and played with Pauline Hamill from Scotland, among others , before she joined the newly founded Women's United Soccer Association alongside her studies in the USA played for Carolina Courage and the Boston Renegades . In 2002 she returned to Iceland and played again for KR Reykjavík. Together with her teammate Olga Færseth, she was the top scorer with 20 goals each and was able to win the championship. In the cup, she scored four goals in the semifinals and quarterfinals and then also won the final 4: 3 against local rivals Valur , but Olga scored the decisive goal. As a result, she was voted "Iceland's Player of the Year" again, as in the following year.

Olga then left the club and went to ÍBV, so that the burden was increasingly on Ásthildur's shoulders, but with 16 goals she led KR to another championship, but already lost 4-2 to ÍBV in the cup quarter-finals, with Olga three of them Tore poured. On August 30, 2003, she said goodbye with a 5-1 on the penultimate game day of the season against UMF Stjarnan from Iceland, to which she contributed two more goals. Your last Icelandic championship was already certain. In the last game of the season against the runner-up who was four points behind, which ended 3: 3, she therefore no longer had to intervene.

She then went to Sweden to continue her studies in mathematics and physics at Lund University and played in Damallsvenskan for Malmö FF Dam , where she played with Brazilian Formiga and the Swedish record national player Therese Sjögran . Her first two goals in the Swedish league she scored on the penultimate and final match day of the 2003 season at 4-2 against Mallbackens IF and 2-3 against champions Djurgården / Älvsjö . At the end of the first season, 3rd place was taken. In 2004 she suffered a knee injury and Malmö was third again without her. In 2005 things went better: with 17 goals she helped Malmö to become runner-up and she was once again voted “Icelandic Player of the Year”. In 2006 she scored 18 goals, but only fourth place remained for Malmö. For 2007 there are eight goals in the no longer complete match reports of Damallsvenskan, which they scored for the club, which now appears as LdB FC Malmö .

National team

Ásthildur played ten international matches for the Icelandic U-17 team at the Nordic Cup in 1991 and 1992 , where the Icelandic women were each fifth. In 1993 she took part in the Nordic Cup with the U-21 team in the older age group, but lost the game for 7th place against the German team in extra time.

Ásthildur played her first international match on September 6, 1993 at the age of 17 in a 1-0 win in the Icelanders' first international game against Wales and was immediately in the starting line-up as in her other games. But she also played in 1994, 1995, 1996 and 1998 for the U-21 team, of which she was team captain in 1998. Up to March 2004 she was not used in only five A-internationals and only replaced four times during this time. In her third international match, she scored her first international goal in a 4-1 win against Scotland, in her sixth international match in a 6-1 win against Greece, she scored four goals, making her the first Icelander to score more than two goals in one game. On March 11, 1996, she set the record of Ásta Breiðfjörð Gunnlaugsdóttir in the 3-1 win against Finland with her eighth international goal in the 14th international match and outbid him in this game with her ninth international goal. In this game she also received her first of eight yellow cards .

On May 10, 1998 she stood briefly for the first time with her sister Þóra Björg Helgadóttir , who was almost five years her junior ; with whom she had already played for the U-21 team in the same year, for the senior national team on the pitch. Þóra Björg came on as a substitute for goalkeeper Sigríður Fanney Pálsdóttir ten minutes before the end of the game . Then Þóra Björg was not used in only three games by Ásthildur.

Since her 36th game on April 5, 2000, she was captain of the senior national team and remained so in all games until the end of her career. Between March 2004 and May 2005 she was sidelined due to a knee injury and missed eight games. In the last game on March 13, 2004, she was substituted in the 5-1 win against Scotland after 56 minutes, although she still scored the goal to 2-0 and had always played through in the eleven games before. In the first twelve games after her comeback, she could only be used nine times. On July 24, 2005 she had to pass against the USA as well as her sister for family reasons, against England she could not play on March 9, 2006 due to an injury and against Portugal on June 18, 2006 she was in the competition because of the second yellow card blocked. In the games in which she was used, she was substituted five times in the last third of the game, although she was still the team captain. Then there was another break of eight months and she had to sit by and watch as her teammate Margrét Lára Viðarsdóttir topped her record at 5-1 over Portugal , which had been extended to 22 international goals, on March 12, 2007 . After this time she was only used three times, but could still achieve her 23rd international goal. Margrét Lára had already scored her 26th international goal in the game. Ásthildur played her last international match on June 21, 2007 in a 5-0 win in the Icelanders' first game against Serbia . With her 69 international matches, she remained the record national player until March 12, 2008 and was then surpassed by Katrín Jónsdóttir , who expanded the record to 133 games by 2013.

For a European Championship or World Cup finals, she was never able to qualify with Iceland. In qualifying for the 1995 European Championship , in which Ásthildur scored the most goals for Iceland, they failed in the quarter-finals against England and were therefore not qualified for the 1995 World Cup. In qualifying for the European Championship in 1997 - here too Ásthildur was one of the best Icelandic goal scorers - the German team was too strong in the play-offs. They finished the qualification for the EM 2001 in last place, in the qualification for the World Cup 2003 the Icelanders failed in the playoff games against England and in the playoff games of the EM qualification 2005 , in which they failed against Norway , they could not because of their knee injury take part.

It was only after their playing days that the Icelanders were able to qualify for the 2009 European Championship for the first time .

successes

Awards

Private

Her younger sister Þóra Björg Helgadóttir also played in the Icelandic national team. Both played together 38 times for Iceland's senior team and four times together for the U-21 team. On March 3, 2010, Þóra Björg broke the family record with her 70th international match. Overall, Þóra Björg made 106 international matches between 1998 and 2014, with an average of 8.5 games per year in her active time and only an average of six games per year in Ásthildur's active time. Both played for the same club at times and celebrated joint championships, but also met as opponents. On June 5, 1998, Ásthildur was able to score a goal against her sister in a 5-0 win against Breiðablik as well as a goal against her sister on May 28, 2000 at 2: 1 and on July 17, 2000 at 1: 3.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e rsssf.com: Iceland - Women's Players' Footballer of the Year
  2. ↑ Meistarakeppni kvenna - KR - ÍA 3-1
  3. ↑ Markahæstu menn - Íslandsmót - 1st deild kvenna
  4. ↑ Meistarakeppni kvenna Breiðablik - KR 0-1
  5. ↑ Markahæstu menn Íslandsmót - Mizunodeild kvenna
  6. ↑ Markahæstu menn - Íslandsmót - Landssímadeild kvenna
  7. ↑ Coca-Cola bikar kvenna KR - Valur 4-3
  8. ↑ VISA-bikar kvenna ÍBV - KR 4-2
  9. ↑ Landsbankadeild kvenna KR - Stjarnan 5-1
  10. ↑ Mallbackens IF - Malmö FF
  11. ↑ Malmö FF - Djurgården / Älvsjö
  12. ↑ Knattspyrnusagan
  13. ↑ Nordic Cup (Women U-17)
  14. ↑ Nordic Cup (Women U-20 / U-21 / U-23)
  15. ↑ ussoccer.com: "US WNT Get Set For Iceland Rematch in Pittsburgh on Wednesday"
  16. ↑ ussoccer.com: "Ryan Names 18-Player Roster For July 24 Match Against Iceland"
  17. ↑ "Ásthildur ekki með Gegn Englandi"
  18. ↑ ksi.is: "Ásthildur í banni - Landsliðsfyrirliðinn ekki með Gegn Portúgal"
  19. ↑ Meistaradeild kvenna: KR - Breiðablik 5-0
  20. ↑ Landssímadeild kvenna: Breiðablik - KR 1-2
  21. ↑ Landssímadeild kvenna: KR - Breiðablik 1-3
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 Ásthildur Helgadóttir
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Asta (nickname); Asthildur Helgadottir (spelling of FIFA)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Icelandic soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Reykjavík , Iceland