Edda Garðarsdóttir

Edda Garðarsdóttir
Personnel
birthday	July 15, 1979
place of birth	Reykjavík ,  Iceland
size	172 cm
position	midfield
Women
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1992-2004	KR Reykjavík	125 (24)
2005-2006	Breiðablik Kópavogur	34 (16)
2007-2008	KR Reykjavík	39 0(7)
2009–2012	KIF Örebro	78 (10)
2013	Chelsea FC	5 0(0)
2013	Valur Reykjavík	9 0(2)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1995	Iceland U-17	5 0(0)
1997	Iceland U-19	1 0(1)
1996-2003	Iceland U-21	21 0(2)
1997-2013	Iceland	103 0(4)
1 Only league games are given.

Edda Garðarsdóttir (born July 15, 1979 in Reykjavík ) is a former Icelandic football player . The midfielder played for the Icelandic national team from 1997 to 2013 and for various clubs in Iceland, Sweden and England until 2013.

Club career

Edda made her debut in 1992 at the age of 13 for the Icelandic club KR Reykjavík in the Icelandic league , for which she mostly played except for short trips to other clubs. In 1993, 1997, 1998 and 1999 she won the championship with KR and in 2005 with Breiðablik. She also won the "Bikarkeppni kvenna" cup competition in 1999, 2002, 2007 and 2008 with KR and in 2005 with Breiðablik. During the four seasons in Sweden she finished fifth with KIF Örebro three times in Damallsvenskan , but narrowly escaped relegation last season. She then moved to England where she only made five appearances at Chelsea and already in July 2013 after the EM 2013 she moved back to her home country to Valur, where she played her last league game on September 14, 2013 on the last match day of the season and was runner-up.

National team

Edda played her first international match on September 7, 1997 when Iceland played against Ukraine for the first time as part of the World Cup qualification and she came on in the 79th minute for Margrét Rannveig Ólafsdóttir , who was substituted in for the first time in this game. Before that, she had already played five internationals for the U-17s, one game for the U-19s and eight internationals for the U-21 teams, for which she also played other games after she was already a national player.

She was part of the squad at the 2009 European Women's Football Championship in Finland , for which Iceland was able to qualify for the first time, and was used in two games. The team was eliminated from the tournament without any points, but only lost 1-0 to Norway and Germany .

At the Algarve Cup 2011 she surprisingly reached the final with her team, but lost it to record winners USA . They had eliminated the former Algarve Cup winners China and Sweden in the group stage .

On March 11, 2013, she made her 100th international match at the 2013 Algarve Cup against the People's Republic of China as the second Icelander after record national player Katrín Jónsdóttir . After that she only played three more internationals. She played her last international match on June 1, 2013 in preparation for the European Championship against Scotland . But then she was not appointed to the squad for the EM 2013 .

Private

In June 2012 her partner, the Icelandic national player Ólína Guðbjörg Viðarsdóttir, had her first child.

Web links

• Edda Garðarsdóttir on the official website of the Icelandic Football Association (Icelandic)
• Edda Garðarsdóttir in the database of weltfussball.de
• Edda Garðarsdóttir on the official website of Damallsvenskan (Swedish)
• Edda Garðarsdóttir in the soccerway.com database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A kvenna: Ísland - Úkraína 3-2
2. ↑ ruv.is: "Edda ekki með á EM"
3. ↑ dv.is: "Ólína og Edda orðnar mömmur" ( Memento of the original from June 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 

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 .