Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson
Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson on April 18, 2007 |
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Player information | |
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birthday | August 8, 1979 |
place of birth | Reykjavík , Iceland |
citizenship | Icelandic |
height | 1.87 m |
Playing position | Left winger |
Back center | |
Throwing hand | right |
Club information | |
society | Career ended |
Clubs as active | |
from ... to | society |
1986-1991 | Grótta Seltjarnarnes |
1991-1998 | Grótta KR |
1998-2001 | KA Akureyri |
2001-2005 | TUSEM food |
2005-2008 | VfL Gummersbach |
2008-2011 | Rhine-Neckar lion |
2011–2012 | AG København |
2012-2014 | THW Kiel |
2014-2016 | FC Barcelona |
2016-2019 | Rhine-Neckar lion |
2019-2020 | Paris Saint-Germain |
National team | |
Debut on | December 15, 1999 |
against | Italy |
Games (goals) | |
Iceland | 364 (1875) |
Clubs as coaches | |
from ... to | society |
2020– | VfL Gummersbach |
As of July 4, 2020 |
Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson (born August 8, 1979 in Reykjavík ) is a former Icelandic handball player . In the Icelandic national team he played on the left winger position . He is now working as a handball trainer.
Career
society
Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson began playing handball at Grótta Seltjarnarnes in 1986, which he left in 1991 in the direction of Grótta KR . From the 1995/96 season Guðjón was used in the men's team of Grótta KR, which competed in the highest Icelandic league. In 1997, the winger rose with Grótta in the second highest Icelandic league, but he stayed with the club for another year. In 1998 Guðjón moved to KA Akureyri , with whom he won the championship in 2001. In the same year, the two-time Icelandic handball player of the year went to Germany. In the first few years he played for the Bundesliga club TUSEM Essen , with which he won the EHF Cup in 2005. In the same year he moved to VfL Gummersbach. Here he was the top scorer in the Bundesliga with a total of 264 goals at the end of his first season . For the 2008/09 season he went to competitor Rhein-Neckar Löwen . After three years, Sigurðsson moved to the Danish first division club AG København in the summer of 2011 . From the 2012/13 season he ran for the THW Kiel , with which he was German champion twice. For the 2014/15 season he moved to the Spanish league ASOBAL for FC Barcelona . With Barcelona he won the championship in 2015 and 2016 and the EHF Champions League in 2015 . For the 2016/17 season Sigurðsson returned to the Rhein-Neckar Löwen as a replacement for Uwe Gensheimer , with whom he became German champion in 2017. In the 2019/20 season, Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson played for Paris Saint-Germain . With Paris he won the French championship in 2020. Then he ended his career.
National team
In the Icelandic national team Guðjón played 364 international matches, in which he threw 1,875 goals. Since June 7, 2014 he has been Iceland's record scorer ahead of Ólafur Stefánsson (1,570). With 66 goals he was the top scorer at the 2007 World Cup in Germany. At the 2008 Olympic Games , he won the silver medal with the Icelandic team. He was also selected as the best left winger in the “ All-Star Team ”, as well as at the 2012 and 2014 European Championships . At the Olympic Games in London in 2012 , he won preliminary group A with Iceland without losing points, but narrowly failed in the quarter-finals to Hungary.
At the 2018 European Championship , he overtook Hungary's Péter Kovács with 1798 goals as the player with the most international goals.
Coaching
Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson took over the coaching position at VfL Gummersbach for the 2020/21 season.
Others
In 2006, Guðjón was voted Icelandic Sportsman of the Year by Icelandic sports journalists . With 405 points, he won the election in front of football player Eiður Guðjohnsen , who received 333 points.
Guðjón is married and has two daughters and a son.
Seasonal balance sheets
season | society | Division | Games | Gates | 7 meters | Field gates |
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1995/96 | Grótta KR | N1 deild karla | 10 | 0 | - | - |
1996/97 | Grótta KR | N1 deild karla | 22nd | 44 | - | - |
1997/98 | Grótta KR | 2. deild karla | 16 | 100 | - | - |
1998/99 | KA Akureyri | N1 deild karla | 18th | 25th | - | - |
1999/2000 | KA Akureyri | N1 deild karla | 21st | 95 | - | - |
2000/01 | KA Akureyri | N1 deild karla | 21st | 139 | - | - |
2001/02 | TuSEM food | Bundesliga | 34 | 72 | 4th | 68 |
2002/03 | TuSEM food | Bundesliga | 32 | 123 | 0 | 123 |
2003/04 | TuSEM food | Bundesliga | 34 | 126 | 1 | 125 |
2004/05 | TuSEM food | Bundesliga | 34 | 177 | 1 | 176 |
2005/06 | VfL Gummersbach | Bundesliga | 34 | 263 | 70 | 193 |
2006/07 | VfL Gummersbach | Bundesliga | 34 | 221 | 4th | 217 |
2007/08 | VfL Gummersbach | Bundesliga | 26th | 151 | 31 | 120 |
2008/09 | Rhine-Neckar lion | Bundesliga | 33 | 193 | 71 | 122 |
2009/10 | Rhine-Neckar lion | Bundesliga | 18th | 53 | 0 | 53 |
2010/11 | Rhine-Neckar lion | Bundesliga | 17th | 44 | 0 | 44 |
2011/12 | AG København | Håndboldligaen | 31 | 142 | 0 | 142 |
2012/13 | THW Kiel | Bundesliga | 34 | 77 | 0 | 77 |
2013/14 | THW Kiel | Bundesliga | 33 | 122 | 1 | 121 |
1995-2014 | total | 2. deild karla N1 deild karla Bundesliga Håndboldligaen |
16 92 363 31 |
100 303 1622 142 |
- - 183 0 |
- - 1439 142 |
Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson at the Schlecker Cup 2007
Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson at the Schlecker Cup 2007
successes
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KA Akureyri
- Icelandic champion: 2001
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TUSEM food
- EHF Cup Winner : 2005
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AG København
- Danish champion: 2012
- Danish Cup Winner: 2011
- THW Kiel
- German champion: 2013, 2014
- DHB Cup : 2013
- DHB Supercup : 2012
- FC Barcelona
- Spanish champion: 2015, 2016
- EHF Champions League: 2015
- Rhine-Neckar lion
- German champion: 2017
- DHB Cup: 2018
- DHB Supercup: 2016, 2017, 2018
- Paris Saint-Germain
- French champion: 2020
- Icelandic national team
- Olympic Games 2008 : silver
- European Championship 2010 : bronze
Web links
- Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson on the FC Barcelona website
- Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson on the website of THW Kiel
- Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson in the database of the European Handball Federation (English)
- Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b handball-world.news: Champions in five countries and Olympic silver: Gudjon Valur Sigurdsson with the end of his career, accessed on April 29, 2020
- ↑ archiv.thw-handball.de: TUSEM Essen season 2001/2002 opponents , accessed on September 9, 2019
- ↑ handball-world.news: Sigurdsson from the new season at the Rhein Neckar Löwen , accessed on April 13, 2018
- ↑ handballmagazin.com
- ↑ handball-world.com: Kiel confirms transfer from Sigurdsson viewed on December 31, 2015
- ↑ www.fcbarcelona.es Gudjón Valur Sigurdsson, nuevo jugador del FC Barcelona de balonmano (Spanish) from June 6, 2014, accessed on June 6, 2014
- ↑ handball-world.news: Castling complete - Paris presents Gudjon Valur Sigurdsson as Gensheimer's replacement , accessed on January 30, 2019
- ↑ Handball World Cup 2007 , accessed on September 13, 2012
- ↑ Top favorites reach main round sport1.de, January 14, 2018.
- ↑ vfl-gummersbach.de: Gudjon Valur Sigurdsson new coach at VfL Gummersbach , accessed on May 4, 2020
- ↑ www.focus.de: Great honor for Gummersbach's Sigurdsson , accessed on April 13, 2018
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Icelandic handball player and coach |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 8, 1979 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Reykjavík , Iceland |