Hermann Hreiðarsson

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Hermann Hreiðarsson
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Hermann Hreiðarsson (2009)
Personnel
birthday June 11, 1974
place of birth Reykjavík ,  Iceland
size 191 cm
position Defense
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1993-1997 ÍBV Vestmannaeyjar 68 (5)
1997-1998 Crystal Palace 37 (2)
1998-1999 Brentford FC 41 (6)
1999-2000 Wimbledon FC 24 (1)
2000-2003 Ipswich Town 102 (2)
2003-2007 Charlton Athletic 132 (3)
2007–2012 Portsmouth FC 102 (7)
2012 Coventry City 2 (0)
2013 ÍBV Vestmannaeyjar 5 (0)
2014 Fylkir Reykjavík
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1995 Iceland U-21 6 (1)
1996-2011 Iceland 89 (5)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2013 ÍBV Vestmannaeyjar (player-coach)
1 Only league games are given.

Hermann Hreiðarsson (born June 11, 1974 in Reykjavík ) is an Icelandic football player and coach . As a defender , who could mostly be used on the left, but often also in central defense, he completed 15 years of his professional career in English football at clubs such as Ipswich Town , Charlton Athletic and FC Portsmouth , before he and he moved back home there in 2013 at ÍBV Vestmannaeyjar took over the post of player-coach.

Athletic career

Club career

Beginnings in Iceland (1993–1997)

Hermann Hreiðarsson started his career at ÍBV Vestmannaeyjar in Iceland. He spent the first five years of his footballing career there, becoming a regular from 1994 and part of the team that won the Icelandic championship in 1997. However, he missed the decisive games to win the title, as he had already moved to England before the end of the season played in the rhythm of the calendar year. Responsible for this was that scouts from the London club Crystal Palace , which had just been promoted to the Premier League , discovered him and he had signed a contract in England in August 1997.

Crystal Palace, Brentford and Wimbledon (1997-2000)

The tall, blonde Icelandic national defender and left-footed player quickly established himself in the main line-up of "Palace" and after his debut by substitution against Blackburn Rovers (1: 2) was then against his future employer FC Wimbledon (1: 0) in September 1997 for the first time in the starting XI. Equipped with a good header game and a high level of commitment, he also stood out for the fact that, in addition to his defensive qualities, he demonstrated talents in the creative build-up of the game from defense. He quickly became a crowd favorite and with his performance against Dennis Bergkamp in a domestic duel with upcoming champions FC Arsenal (0-0), he provided one of the few highlights in a season in which Crystal Palace was bottom of the table on a direct way back down the line had to compete in the second division.

After seven second division games for Crystal Palace, Hermann moved two leagues lower to Brentford FC at the end of September 1998 . The somewhat surprising decision had a lot to do with Brentford's new chairman Ron Noades , who had previously worked at Palace as president and briefly as interim coach. Brentford let Hermann's services cost the record transfer fee of 850,000 pounds and with performances that were qualitatively significantly different from the league standard, this helped to achieve promotion to the third highest division by winning the fourth division championship. Among them were four of his own league goals and at the end of the season the players' union PFA named him part of the “ Team of the Year ”. That he would not stay permanently below the Premier League remained an open secret and so Hermann Hreiðarsson went back to the English elite league in September 1999, where he again signed up for Wimbledon in London.

The transfer fee was 2.5 million pounds and Hermann was just one of many Scandinavian players who the coach Egil Olsen hired there. As with Crystal Palace, Hermann didn't need any significant acclimatization time at Wimbledon either. At the same time, with his defensive qualities and powerful offensive advances, he quickly became a leader, but at the end of the 1999/2000 season there was another relegation to the First Division . Against West Ham United he had scored his only goal for the "Dons" at 2-2 on Boxing Day 2000 and after the first game day of the subsequent 2000/01 season he went on for him in August 2000 for more than four million pounds to the first division promoted Ipswich Town .

Ipswich Town (2000-2003)

Immediately after signing the contract, he made his debut for Ipswich against Tottenham Hotspur (1: 3) and he only missed two of the following games of the season (as a result of a bailout against Leeds United , in which he cleared the ball in front of the line). In addition to the defense center, he often occupied the position of the attacking left full-back (as "wingback") and in the end he reached the surprisingly good fifth place in the final table with the new club , which the team even qualified for the UEFA Cup . There he was part of the team that defeated Inter Milan 1-0 at home before they were eliminated from the competition due to the 1: 4 in the second leg (in the previous round he had scored against Helsingborgs IF himself). In the Premier League , the sporting trend was clearly downwards and at the end of the 2001/02 season was for Hermann Hreiðarsson despite some successful offensive advances as a left full-back (where he changed from 5-3-2 to 4-4 after coach George Burley's game system -2 mainly acted) a renewed decline was recorded.

Back in a more offensive role as a left wingback, he played in the 2002/03 season, in which he often passed the balls hit by Thomas Gaardsøe forward either directly into the penalty area or processed into cross runs. In the home game against Stoke City he injured his knee and while he was recovering from it, an agreement was reached in March 2003 with first division club Charlton Athletic ; while the transfer fee of 800,000 pounds was considered a "bargain", despite the further 100,000 pounds that were later due for the successful league, to which the newcomer had not yet been able to contribute.

Charlton Athletic (2003-2007)

In Charlton Hermann Hreiðarsson came mostly as a left-back to the train and switched to central defense at the side of Jonathan Fortune in the last games of the 2003/04 season after all alternatives were lost due to injury. In addition to the usual runs across the flank, he made a decisive contribution to victories at Blackburn Rovers (1-0) and at home against FC Chelsea (4-2) with two goals . Not least because of these “merits”, he immediately took second place behind goalkeeper Dean Kiely in the club's internal election for Player of the Year . Also in his sophomore year he showed that he was one of the most successful new signings of coach Alan Curbishley's era . He harmonized well on the left with Paul Konchesky and occasionally successfully used his long throw-ins.

Somewhat surprisingly, Hermann then acted in the 2005/06 season, with the exception of a game against Arsenal, exclusively in central defense and after an injury to the regular captain Luke Young , he represented him from the beginning of April 2006 in this role. In his last year for Charlton, he shuttled steadily between the two defensive positions. After starting in the middle of the defense, he moved to the left after Djimi Traoré's broken leg. After his return, he briefly returned to central defense before he had to help out again after Traoré's departure, as successor Ben Thatcher was not yet available. In the end, Hermann suffered the fourth relegation from the Premier League in his career, but a release clause in the event of relegation allowed him to join Portsmouth FC on a free transfer in June 2007 .

Portsmouth FC (2007-2012)

Portsmouth was also a fresh newcomer to the first division and, as in the case of Ipswich, Hermann Hreiðarsson managed to occupy a surprisingly good place in the final table (with eighth place ). In addition, there was the victory in the FA Cup after a final win against Cardiff City (1-0). It was particularly noteworthy that in the defensive line he contributed to the fact that the team remained without conceding a total of 22 times - acting as a left-back or center-back.

In the first half of the 2008/09 season he lost his place in the team, which was particularly due to the fact that Armand Traoré and Nadir Belhadj harmonized well on the left . However, when the situation dramatized under coach Tony Adams due to a sporting downtrend, the calls for him became so loud that he returned to the team permanently at the end of January 2009. Shortly thereafter, he scored one goal each in two consecutive games against Liverpool (2: 3) and Manchester City (2: 0) and overall he ensured the necessary stability on the defensive under Adams' successor Paul Hart , which was partly responsible for the relegation was. In the 2009/10 relegation year , he initially missed the first 15 games, then scored an important goal against rivals Burnley FC (2-0) and ultimately missed the end of the season due to an Achilles tendon injury from the game against Tottenham Hotspur at the end of March 2010. As a result, he was not involved in the 2010 FA Cup final against Chelsea, which was lost 1-0. At first it was not made public whether Hermann Hreiðarsson would then stay in Portsmouth until the beginning of October 2010 that a new one-year contract was signed. After the recovery, coach Steve Cotterill first trusted loan player Carl Dickinson , before he was used more often towards the end of the season, played his 500th league game against FC Barnsley and in July 2011 extended the contract by another year. Due to injury, however, he was largely no longer considered in Portsmouth and in January 2012 the club loaned him to second division rivals Coventry City until the end of the contract .

Back to Iceland via Coventry (since 2012)

The time in Coventry was only a short interlude and Hermann completed just two competitive games for the club in the 2011/12 season. In early 2013 he returned to his Icelandic homeland to take on the role of player- coach at his home club ÍBV Vestmannaeyjar .

Icelandic national team

Hermann Hreiðarsson played 89 times for the Icelandic national soccer team between 1996 and 2011 , scoring five goals (mostly in the position of central defender). He made his debut after six appearances for the U-21 youth in 1995 on June 5, 1996 against Cyprus (2-1). From then on it was never enough for the finals of a World or European Championship, but in qualifying for Euro 2004 participation in the play-offs only narrowly failed due to a 3-0 defeat against Germany on the last day of the game (with a simultaneous victory by Scotland ) - in the first leg, a 0-0 win had been wrested from the vice world champions shortly before. Hermann Hreiðarsson's last appearance for Iceland ended on August 10, 2011 with a 4-0 defeat against Hungary . With 89 full internationals, he came in second behind record holder Rúnar Kristinsson .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1998-99 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 1998, ISBN 1-85291-588-9 , pp. 143 .
  2. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1999-2000 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 1999, ISBN 1-85291-607-9 , pp. 148 .
  3. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 2000-2001 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 2000, ISBN 1-85291-626-5 , pp. 158 f .
  4. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 2001-2002 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 2001, ISBN 0-946531-34-X , pp. 147 f .
  5. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2002/03 . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 2002, ISBN 1-85291-648-6 , pp. 201 f .
  6. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2003/2004 . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 2003, ISBN 1-85291-651-6 , pp. 208 f .
  7. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2004/2005 . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 2004, ISBN 1-85291-660-5 , pp. 196 .
  8. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2005/2006 . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 2005, ISBN 1-85291-662-1 , pp. 197 .
  9. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2006-07 . Mainstream Publishing, 2006, ISBN 1-84596-111-0 , pp. 196 f .
  10. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2007-08 . Mainstream Publishing, 2007, ISBN 978-1-84596-246-3 , pp. 197 .
  11. ↑ a b Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2008-09 . Mainstream Publishing, 2008, ISBN 978-1-84596-324-8 , pp. 211 .
  12. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2009-10 . Mainstream Publishing, 2009, ISBN 978-1-84596-474-0 , pp. 201 .
  13. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2010-11 . Mainstream Publishing, 2010, ISBN 978-1-84596-601-0 , pp. 204 .
  14. ↑ "Hreidarsson signs new deal" (Sky Sports)
  15. ↑ "Hermann Hreidarsson signs new Portsmouth deal" (BBC Sport)
  16. ↑ "Hermann Hreidarsson leaves Portsmouth for Coventry City" (BBC Sport)
  17. ↑ "Hreidarsson hopes to entice James to Iceland" ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2013 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. (sportsdirectnews.com) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sportsdirectnews.com
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personal data
SURNAME Hermann Hreiðarsson
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hreiðarsson, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Icelandic soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Reykjavík , Iceland