Atli Eðvaldsson

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Atli Eðvaldsson
Personnel
birthday March 3, 1957
place of birth Reykjavík ,  Iceland
date of death 2nd September 2019
Place of death Iceland
size 195 cm
position Center Forward
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1974-1980 Valur Reykjavík
1980-1981 Borussia Dortmund 30 (11)
1981-1985 Fortuna Dusseldorf 122 (38)
1985-1988 Bayer 05 Uerdingen 72 (10)
1988-1989 Valur Reykjavík 23 0(6)
1989 TuRU Düsseldorf
1989-1990 Gençlerbirliği Ankara 23 0(4)
1990-1993 KR Reykjavík 65 (18)
1994 HK Kópavogur 11 0(1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1974 Iceland U-19
1978 Iceland U-21
1976-1991 Iceland 70 0(8)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1995-1996 ÍBV Vestmannaeyjar
1997 Fylkir Reykjavík
1998-1999 KR Reykjavík
1999-2003 Iceland
2005-2006 Þróttur Reykjavík
2009 Valur Reykjavík
2013 Reynir Sandgerdi
2014 UMF afturelding
2017-2018 Kristianstad FC
2018 Hamar
1 Only league games are given.

Atli Eðvaldsson (born March 3, 1957 in Reykjavík , † September 2, 2019 ) was an Icelandic football player and coach .

Career

As a player

For the German clubs Borussia Dortmund , Bayer 05 Uerdingen and Fortuna Düsseldorf , Atli Eðvaldsson played a total of 224 Bundesliga appearances as a striker and scored 59 goals. He completed 70 international matches for the Icelandic national team .

On June 6, 1983 Eðvaldsson succeeded in the game of Fortuna Düsseldorf against Eintracht Frankfurt as the first Icelandic football player a hat trick in the Bundesliga (goals to 3-0 in the 3rd, 10th and 36th minute). Later he also scored the goals to 4-1 (54th minute) and 5-1 final score (82nd minute). This made him the first foreigner in the Bundesliga to score five goals in one game.

As a trainer

From 1995 to 1999 Atli Eðvaldsson coached the Icelandic U-21s , from 1999 to 2003 he coached the Icelandic senior national team .

family

Atli Eðvaldsson had four children, two girls and two boys. His daughter Sif Atladóttir is an Icelandic national player , his son Emil Atlason briefly joined the third division team Prussia Münster in 2015 . His brother Jóhannes Eðvaldsson , who was seven years older than him, played for Celtic Glasgow , among others .

Atli was the son of a police chief in Tallinn probably in war crimes involved Evald Mikson that in the 1930s more than once for the Estonian national team had accrued as a goalkeeper.

On September 2, 2019, Atli died of cancer.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Former Fortuna professional Edvaldsson died at the age of 62. In: RP Online . September 2, 2019, accessed September 3, 2019 .
  2. ↑ He scored five goals in one game Fortuna Düsseldorf mourns the striker legend , express.de, September 2, 2019
  3. ↑ Five packer Edvaldsson died. In: Sport1.de . September 2, 2019, accessed September 2, 2019 .
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 Atli Eðvaldsson
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Edvaldsson, Atli (transcription)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION icelandic soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Reykjavík , Iceland
DATE OF DEATH 2nd September 2019