Dagur Sigurðsson

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Dagur Sigurðsson
Dagur Sigurðsson

Dagur Sigurðsson (2014)

Player information
birthday 3rd April 1973
place of birth Reykjavík , IcelandIcelandIceland 
citizenship IcelandersIcelanders Icelandic
Playing position Back center
Throwing hand right
Clubs as active
from ... to society
0000-1996 IcelandIceland Valur Reykjavík
1996-2000 GermanyGermany LTV Wuppertal
2000-2003 JapanJapan Wakunaga Hiroshima
2003-2007 AustriaAustria A1 Bregenz
National team
Debut on October 17, 1992 in Reykjavík
against EgyptEgypt Egypt
  Games (goals)
IcelandIceland Iceland 215 (397)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to society
2000-2003 JapanJapan Wakunaga Hiroshima (player-coach)
2003-2007 AustriaAustria A1 Bregenz (player-coach)
2008-2010 AustriaAustria Austria
2009-2015 GermanyGermany Foxes Berlin
2014-2017 GermanyGermany Germany
2017– JapanJapan Japan

As of July 2, 2017

Dagur Sigurðsson [ ˈtaɣʏːr̥ ˈsɪɣʏrˌsɔn ] (born April 3, 1973 in Reykjavík ) is an Icelandic handball coach and former national player. He has been coaching the Japanese men's national handball team since 2017 .

Career

As a player

Dagur Sigurðsson initially played handball and football . Although he played seven international matches for the Icelandic U-17 national soccer team , he soon decided to devote himself entirely to handball. So he became a regular at Valur Reykjavík , with whom he won the Icelandic championship five times.

In 1996 the player playing in the middle back moved to the German second division club LTV Wuppertal , with whom he was promoted to the Bundesliga a year later . At the age of 24 he became team captain in Wuppertal.

In his playing days, Dagur Sigurðsson was part of the squad of the Icelandic national team , for which he scored 397 goals in 215 international matches. With the national team, he finished fifth at the 1997 World Cup , fourth at the 2002 European Championship and ninth at the 2004 Olympic Games .

As a player coach and coach

Dagur Sigurðsson (2010)

In 2000 Dagur Sigurðsson left Wuppertal to work as a player- coach for the Japanese club Wakunaga Hiroshima for the next three years . With Wakunaga Hiroshima he lost in the final of the Japanese championship against Honda Suzuka in 2003. He then became player- coach at the Austrian club A1 Bregenz , with whom he was four times champion and twice cup winners. During this time, Dagur was honored three times as "Legionnaire of the Year" and once as "Trainer of the Year" by the Austrian Handball Federation.

He then became manager and managing director of his former club Valur Reykjavík. From February 2008 to July 2010 he was the coach of the Austrian national team .

From summer 2009 he coached the German Bundesliga club Füchse Berlin . With the Foxes he reached the Final Four tournament in the EHF Champions League 2011/12 and won the DHB Cup 2013/14 . In the EHF Europa Pokal 2013/14 he reached the Final Four in Berlin , but lost there in the semifinals to the eventual winner Pick Szeged from Hungary. In the game for third place, he won with the Foxes against HCM Constanța .

From August 2014 he also coached the German national handball team . After the 2014/15 season, he stopped working for Füchsen Berlin and has only looked after the German national team since then. With her he became European champion on January 31, 2016 in Poland with a 24:17 over Spain . In the same year, Germany won the bronze medal at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro under his leadership . On November 22nd, 2016 it was announced that Dagur Sigurðsson will leave the DHB after the World Cup in January 2017 to prepare the Japanese national team for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. His successor was the German Christian Prokop .

successes

As a player

  • Icelandic champion 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995 and 1996
  • Icelandic Cup Winner 1993

As a player-coach

  • Austrian champion 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007
  • Austrian cup winner 2006

As a trainer

Awards

Web links

Commons : Dagur Sigurðsson  - collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ timarit.is: Handknattleikur from January 17, 2019, accessed on January 19, 2019
  2. ↑ a b I'm here to design. handballmagazin.com, June 2008, archived from the original on December 18, 2013 ; Retrieved April 11, 2016 .
  3. ^ Dagur Sigurðsson. ksi.is, accessed April 11, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Michael Kölmel: You can't control me. berliner-zeitung.de, March 13, 2009, accessed April 11, 2016 .
  5. ↑ A landslið karla. hsi.is, accessed April 11, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Dagur varð að sætta sig við ósigur. Morgunbladid, March 26, 2003; accessed April 11, 2016 (Icelandic).
  7. ↑ The new national coach in brief. handball-world.com: August 12, 2014, accessed April 11, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Dagur Sigurdsson ends his "HLA career" with the fourth championship title in a row. handball-world.com, May 28, 2007, accessed April 11, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Legionnaire of the Year. (No longer available online.) Oehb.sportlive.at, archived from the original on December 30, 2014 ; accessed on September 2, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / oehb.sportlive.at
  10. ↑ Trainer of the year. (No longer available online.) Oehb.sportlive.at, archived from the original on July 11, 2015 ; accessed on September 2, 2015 .
  11. ↑ Dagur Sigurdsson new national team coach in Austria. handball-world.com, March 3, 2008, accessed April 11, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Sigurðsson will not continue as an Austrian coach. handball-world.com, July 14, 2010, accessed April 11, 2016 .
  13. ↑ Change of coach at the end of the season at the Füchsen: Sigurdsson for Lommel. handball-world.com, December 1, 2008, accessed April 11, 2016 .
  14. ↑ Dagur Sigurdsson becomes the new national coach. DHB, August 12, 2014, accessed on August 12, 2014 .
  15. ^ Farewell to Foxes trainer Dagur Sigurdsson. tagesspiegel.de, June 5, 2015, accessed on July 12, 2011 .
  16. ↑ kicker online, Nuremberg, Germany: Personal reasons: Sigurdsson chooses Japan . In: kicker online . ( kicker.de [accessed on November 23, 2016]).
  17. ↑ Dagur Sigurdsson is world trainer 2015. DHB, April 7, 2016, accessed on April 11, 2016 .
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 Dagur Sigurðsson
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sigurðsson, Dagur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Icelandic handball player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd April 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Reykjavík , Iceland