Alfreð Finnbogason

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Alfreð Finnbogason
Alfreð Finnbogason 2018.jpg
in the jersey of the national team (2018)
Personnel
birthday February 1, 1989
place of birth ReykjavíkIceland
size 184 cm
position Center Forward
Juniors
Years station
1995-1999 Fjölnir Reykjavík
1999-2000 Hutchison Vale FC
2001-2005 Fjölnir Reykjavík
2005-2007 Breiðablik Kópavogur
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2007-2010 Breiðablik Kópavogur 43 (18)
2010–2012 Sporting Lokeren 22 0(4)
2012 →  Helsingborgs IF  (loan) 17 (12)
2012-2014 SC Heerenveen 62 (53)
2014-2016 Real Sociedad 25 0(2)
2015-2016 →  Olympiacos Piraeus  (loan) 7 0(1)
2016– FC Augsburg 75 (34)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2009-2011 Iceland U21 11 0(5)
2010– Iceland 56 (15)
1 Only league games are given.
As of November 4, 2019

2 As of November 4, 2019

Alfreð Finnbogason [ alfrɛð fɪmpɔɣasɔn ] (born February 1, 1989 in Reykjavík ) is an Icelandic football player . The Icelandic international is under contract with FC Augsburg .

Career

Alfreð Finnbogason began playing football in the youth of Fjölnir Reykjavík , before he played for the youth team of the local club Hutchison Vale FC in the late 1990s because his father was studying in Edinburgh, Scotland . Then again active for Fjölnir, in 2005 he moved to the youth of Breiðablik Kópavogur . There he played in the offspring alongside the future national players Jóhann Berg Guðmundsson , Gylfi Þór Sigurðsson , Elfar Freyr Helgason and Guðmundur Kristjánsson .

From July 2007 awarded Breiðablik UBK until the end of the season in October Alfreð Finnbogason to the lower class appearing club Augnablik Kópavogur , which is best known for its basketball team. There he completed his first competitive adult games. On his return he made his debut in the Úrvalsdeild the following year . In the 2009 season he established himself as a regular in attack and was the third best goalscorer of the championship with 13 goals this season behind Björgólfur Hideaki Takefusa and Atli Viðar Björnsson . In addition, he reached the final of the national cup with the team . In the game against Fram Reykjavík in October of that year, he stood alongside Kristinn Jónsson , Elfar Freyr Helgason, Kristinn Steindórsson , Arnar Grétarsson and Guðmundur Kristjánsson in the starting line-up and scored both goals to make it 2-2 after 120 minutes. He won the title with the team on penalties .

The following season turned out to be successful for him: with 14 goals this season, he made a decisive contribution to the club's first championship title, at the same time this meant the title of top scorer, tied with Atli Viðar Björnsson and Gilles Mbang Ondo .

After the end of the season, Alfreð Finnbogason signed a contract with the Belgian club Sporting Lokeren . Eligible to play for the club from January, he scored three times in the remaining eight games of the regular season 2010/11 . No longer successful as a goalscorer in the play-off games, he lost the regular place he had won in the meantime. After only seven more stakes until the spring of 2012, the club loaned him to the reigning Swedish double winner Helsingborgs IF in early March until August 15, without the inclusion of a purchase option . He made his competitive debut when he won the Supercup against Swedish runner-up AIK Solna with a 2-0 win after two goals from Rachid Bouaouzan . In the subsequent Allsvenskan season in 2012 he became a regular goalscorer, and by the end of the loan period he had scored twelve goals in 17 games this season. He also drew attention to himself in the European Cup, alone in the two games against the Polish champions Śląsk Breslau in the third qualifying round for the Champions League , he scored once and put on five more goals. This also aroused desires outside the country's borders. A few days before the loan period expired, the press had quoted the player as having reached an agreement with the Swedish club on a three-year contract, but on August 16 he signed a contract for three seasons with Marco van Basten 's Dutch club SC Heerenveen . In 2014 Alfreð Finnbogason moved to the Spanish first division club Real Sociedad . In the summer of 2015 he was loaned to the Greek record champions Olympiacos Piraeus and in early 2016 to the German first division club FC Augsburg .

He made his Bundesliga debut on February 6, 2016 (20th match day) in the 1: 2 defeat in the away game against FC Ingolstadt 04 with a substitution for Alexander Esswein in the 70th minute. He scored his first Bundesliga goal on February 28, 2016 (23rd matchday) in a 2-2 home game against Borussia Mönchengladbach with the goal to make it 1-1 in the 50th minute. Overall, Alfreð Finnbogason scored seven goals in the second half of the season; then he was firmly committed and given a contract that ran until June 30, 2020. During the 2016/17 season he was out for around four and a half months due to a pubic bone inflammation . On August 26, 2017, the 2nd matchday of the 2017/18 season, he scored 1-0 in a 2-2 win against Borussia Mönchengladbach after 36 seconds. This goal is Augsburg's fastest goal in the Bundesliga so far.

National team

In 2010 Alfreð Finnbogason, who had played for the Icelandic U-21 team since June of the previous year, made his debut in the senior national team . In the 2-0 victory over the Faroe Islands in late March 2010, he replaced Kolbeinn Sigþórsson shortly before the end . On May 10, 2016, national coach Lars Lagerbäck nominated him to the squad for the 2016 European Championship . During the European Championship he was used in three games, twice as a substitute in the group stage. He also came into the game in the quarter-finals when a preliminary decision in favor of opponents France had already been made at halftime with the score 0: 4.

At the World Cup debut of the Icelandic team in Russia on June 16, 2018 against Argentina , he scored the first ever Icelandic goal at a World Cup with a final score of 1: 1.

Others

Alfreð Finnbogason successfully completed a distance learning course in sports management and then enrolled in business administration .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Icelandic Hibernian fan Alfred Finnbogason cannot wait to face former homeland ( Memento from November 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. fotbolti.net: "Alfreð Finnbogason í Lokeren (Staðfest)" (accessed on August 16, 2012)
  3. hd.se: "Isländsk stjärna förstarkker HIF" (accessed on August 16, 2012)
  4. fotbolltransfers.com: "Alfred Finnbogason:" Jag och HIF är överens om ett treårkontrakt "" (accessed on August 16, 2012)
  5. sc-heerenveen.nl: "sc Heerenveen trekt IJslandse spits Finnbogason aan" (accessed on August 16, 2012)
  6. FC Augsburg: Trio remains loyal to FCA , May 14, 2016, accessed on May 15, 2016.
  7. fcaugsburg.de ( Memento from February 12, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 12, 2018.
  8. Finnbogason's Blitzstart, Cordova's last-minute hit , match report on kicker.de, accessed on January 21, 2018.
  9. 1st Bundesliga: FC Bayern Munich wins against Werder Bremen, the matchday at a glance ( memento from January 22, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) on web.de, accessed on January 21, 2018.
  10. Fussballnationalmannschaft.net: "EM 2016 team from Iceland named" (accessed on May 11, 2016)
  11. Match report Argentina - Iceland , fifa.com, accessed on June 16, 2018 (English)
  12. More professionals are starting their studies - Bayer goalkeeper Lomb: “Now it's getting more present” , transfermarkt.de, accessed on April 2, 2020.