Heimir Hallgrímsson

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Heimir Hallgrímsson
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Heimir Hallgrímsson (2018)
Personnel
birthday June 10, 1967
place of birth VestmannaeyjarIceland
position Defense
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1986-1992 ÍBV Vestmannaeyja 53 0(0)
1993 Íþróttafélagið Höttur 17 0(3)
1994-1996 ÍBV Vestmannaeyja 26 0(0)
1996-1997 Smástund 20 (10)
1998-2007 KFS 48 (10)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1993 Íþróttafélagið Höttur (women)
1999-2001 ÍBV Vestmannaeyjar (Women)
2002 ÍBV Vestmannaeyjar
2003-2004 ÍBV Vestmannaeyjar (Women)
2006-2011 ÍBV Vestmannaeyjar
2011-2013 Iceland ( assistant coach )
2013-2018 Iceland
2018– al-Arabi
1 Only league games are given.

Heimir Hallgrímsson (born June 10, 1967 in Vestmannaeyjar ) is a former Icelandic football player and current coach .

Heimir was coach of the Icelandic national football team from 2013 together with the Swede Lars Lagerbäck . He has been solely responsible for this position since the 2016 European Championships , in which Iceland advanced to the quarter-finals. He resigned after the 2018 World Cup.

Life

player

Heimir began playing football at his hometown club ÍBV Vestmannaeyjar , to which he returned in various roles in later years. In his first season he came only to two missions and had little opportunity to prevent relegation. After three seasons in the second division, in which relegation to the third division was barely prevented, ÍBV returned to the first division for the 1990 season as runner-up in the second division and took third place, missing only one league game. In 1991 he was used in all 18 league games, but ÍBV was only seventh. In 1992 he was used in 15 league games and as third from bottom ÍBV narrowly avoided relegation. In 1993 he moved to the fourth division club Íþróttafélagið Höttur and coached their women's team at the same time. In 1994 he returned to ÍBV and was able to help avoid relegation. In 1995 he was even able to qualify for the 1996/97 UEFA Cup with ÍBV as third , but where ÍBV failed in the first round at the Estonian champions FC Lantana Tallinn . After he had only come to a league assignment in 1996 , he moved to the lower class club Smástund , which later merged with Framherjar, where he then let his career end in 2007, but worked as a coach for ÍBV.

Trainer

After having worked for ÍBV as a coach for several years, he became assistant to Lars Lagerbäck in 2011, who took over the Icelandic national football team on October 14, 2011 . Both managed to lead the national team to a higher level. In qualifying for the 2014 World Cup , they took second place in the qualifying group behind the equally strengthened Swiss and left the former World Cup participants Slovenia and Norway behind. In the subsequent relegation games of the best runners-up in the group against Croatia , they then failed after a goalless draw at home with a 2-0 draw in Croatia. Shortly afterwards, he and Lagerbäck extended his contract. Heimir has now become the national team's coach with equal rights, with the option of assuming sole responsibility in 2016.

In qualifying for the 2016 European Championships , they continued their successful path, eliminating , among other things, the third place in the World Cup, the Netherlands , and qualified with their team for the European Championship finals on September 6, 2015. This was the first time the Icelandic men were able to qualify for a major football tournament - the women had already shown them how to do it a few years earlier. In the finals they scored 1-1 in the first group match against the favored Portuguese and also led 1-0 for a long time in the second group match against Hungary , but then had to accept an own goal equalizer in the final phase. With a win against Austria , the Icelandic selection qualified for the round of 16. In this England was defeated. In the quarter-finals, the team then lost to hosts France 2-5. The team and the support staff were enthusiastically celebrated on their return to Iceland. The collaboration with Lagerbäck ended with the end of the European Championship, so that Heimir was appointed sole national coach.

Then he qualified with Iceland for the 2018 World Cup in Russia, where the team was eliminated with one point (draw against Argentina) as the bottom of the group. Then Heimir Hallgrímsson resigned.

He will coach the Qatari first division club Al-Arabi until the end of the 2019 season.

job

Heimir Hallgrímsson worked part-time as a dentist in a practice in Heimaey . Since the European Championships in 2016 , when Iceland advanced to the quarter-finals, he was the sole coach and left his job as a dentist on hold. On July 17, 2018, he resigned from the office of national coach and wanted to return to his profession.

Success as a trainer

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c A dentist and an "old Swede" rp-online.de
  2. fotbolti.net: "Lars Lagerback tekur við landsliðinu (Staðfest)"
  3. mbl.is: "Lagerbäck og Heimir áfram með landsliðið"
  4. Florian Lütticke, Jens Marx: Homecoming of the heroes. In: saechsische.de. July 5, 2016, accessed April 13, 2020 .
  5. Iceland's ex-team boss will be a coach in Qatar on ORF-Sport from December 11, 2018, accessed on December 11, 2018
  6. Iceland's national coach resigns. Tagesspiegel, July 17, 2018.