Eyjólfur Sverrisson

Eyjólfur Sverrisson
Eyjólfur Sverrisson as coach of Iceland's U-21s (2010)
Personnel
Surname	Eyjólfur Gjafar Sverrisson
birthday	3rd August 1968
place of birth	Sauðárkrókur ,  Iceland
size	186 cm
position	midfield player
Juniors
Years	station
	Tindastóll Sauðárkrókur
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1985-1989	Tindastóll Sauðárkrókur	79 (66)
1990-1994	VfB Stuttgart	110 (21)
1990-1991	VfB Stuttgart Amat.	16 0(7)
1994-1995	Beşiktaş Istanbul	33 0(9)
1995-2003	Hertha BSC	196 (13)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
	Iceland U-21	6 0(6)
1990-2001	Iceland	66 (10)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2005-2007	Iceland
2009–	Iceland U-21
2011	VfL Wolfsburg (assistant coach)
1 Only league games are given.

Eyjólfur "Jolly" Sverrisson (born August 3, 1968 in Sauðárkrókur ) is a former Icelandic football player . After his active career, he began a career as a football coach , where he has been the head coach of the Icelandic U-21 national team since 2009 . In between, he worked alongside interim coach Pierre Littbarski in 2011 as an assistant coach at VfL Wolfsburg .

Player career

society

Eyjólfur Sverrisson began his career at the Icelandic club Tindastóll Sauðárkrókur , where he was active for many years in the club's youth teams and from 1985 was also used for the men's team. From 1985 to 1989 he had 79 league appearances and the resulting 66 goals. During the winter break in 1989/90 he was about to move to mainland Europe, where he finally signed a contract with VfB Stuttgart . Back then as an attacker, he made his Bundesliga debut on April 21, 1990 in a 3-1 home win against Werder Bremen . Coach Willi Entenmann brought Eyjólfur in the 76th minute for Olaf Schmäler . In the following year, the offensive player came to more missions and competed with Manfred Kastl for second place in the storm next to Fritz Walter . For the season 1991/92 Eyjólfur Sverrisson was able to win the German championship with the club . Under Christoph Daum he was then used more and more in midfield. During the football year 1992/93 he scored seven goals, which is a personal record. He never got more hits in one season. In the summer of 1994 he left Swabia and moved to Turkey. After a season at Beşiktaş Istanbul , after which he was able to win the Turkish championship, "Jolly" moved to Hertha BSC , where he first made promotion to the Bundesliga in 1997 and won the League Cup twice in a row in 2001 and 2002 , but without to have participated in the final game. At the capital club he was finally retrained as a defender. After the rise, he mostly formed the Hertha defensive with Dick van Burik , Steffen Karl , Andreas Schmidt and Hendrik Herzog .

In total, Eyjólfur played 250 games in the Bundesliga in which he scored 30 goals. There are also 56 games in the second Bundesliga for Hertha BSC.

National team

Eyjólfur Sverrisson ran a total of 60 times for the Icelandic national team between 1990 and 2001 . He got ten hits. During his entire time as a selection player, he was one of the stars of his team, but did not manage to qualify with the team for a World or European Championship.

Coaching career

On November 1, 2005, Eyjólfur replaced his former mentor and former VfB player Ásgeir Sigurvinsson as Iceland's national coach . When it became known that his contract would not be renewed, Eyjólfur Sverrisson resigned on October 29, 2007. In 14 international matches, he and his team could only record two wins, including a 3-0 win and a 2-1 win over Northern Ireland . The coach was replaced by compatriot Ólafur Jóhannesson .

Since 2009 he has been in charge of the Icelandic U-21 national team , which he led in 2011 for the first time at the U-21 European Championship .

In February 2011 after the dismissal of coach Steve McClaren at the German Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg and the takeover by assistant coach Pierre Littbarski, Eyjólfur was accepted into the coaching staff of the wolves , where he worked as Littbarski's assistant. The contact between Wolfsburg and Eyjólfur Sverrisson came about through VfL manager Dieter Hoeneß , with whom Eyjólfur has had a friendly relationship since his time in Berlin. After Felix Magath was signed as head coach at VfL Wolfsburg on March 18, 2011, the club parted ways with him. Bernd Hollerbach took his place as assistant coach .

Trivia

• Before moving to VfB Stuttgart , Eyjólfur Sverrisson was also an active basketball player. He was considered one of the best players in his country and was active in the Icelandic basketball U-21 national team until he moved to Stuttgart.
• His son Hólmar Örn Eyjólfsson is a former national player for Iceland and was under contract with VfL Bochum from July 2011 to August 2014 .
• Together with his father-in-law, Eyjólfur runs a horse breeding business in Iceland.

successes

• German champion in 1992 with VfB Stuttgart
• Turkish champion 1995 with Beşiktas Istanbul
• Promotion to the 1st Bundesliga in 1997 with Hertha BSC

Web links

• Eyjólfur Sverrisson in the database of weltfussball.de
• Eyjólfur Sverrisson in the database of fussballdaten.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Match statistics VfB Stuttgart - SV Werder Bremen on fussballdaten.de.
2. ↑ VfB Stuttgart: Kader 1990/91 ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2011 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. on fussballdaten.de.  
3. ↑ Eyjólfur Sverrisson in the database of fussballdaten.de.
4. ↑ Appearances for Iceland National Team on rsssf.com (as of November 17, 2010)
5. ↑ Sverrisson coaches Iceland from October 22, 2005 on transfermarkt.de.
6. ↑ Sverrisson's time ended October 28, 2007 on uefa.com.
7. ↑ ^{a b} Spiegel Online : I bring more horses than players into Germany from May 3, 2007
8. ↑ Magath brings Hollerbach and Leuthard to VfL. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 26, 2015 ; Retrieved March 18, 2011 . 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.  
9. ↑ From the basketball star to the three-pack against Dortmund - SvAIRrisson , accessed on July 6, 2013.

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 .