Jóan Símun Edmundsson

Jóan Edmundsson
in national team jersey (2013)
Personnel
Surname	Jóan Símun Edmundsson
birthday	July 26, 1991
place of birth	Toftir ,  Faroe Islands
size	174 cm
position	Midfield storm
Juniors
Years	station
	B68 Toftir
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2008-2010	B68 Toftir	48 (10)
2008	B68 Toftir II	3 0(2)
2010	→  Newcastle United  (Loan)	0 0(0)
2010–2012	Newcastle United	0 0(0)
2011	→  Gateshead FC  (loan)	5 0(0)
2012-2013	Viking Stavanger	8 0(0)
2012	→  FC Fredericia  (loan)	8 0(0)
2014	AB Argir	9 0(2)
2014	HB Tórshavn	11 0(6)
2015	Vejle BK	26 (10)
2016-2018	Odense BK	58 (11)
2018–	Arminia Bielefeld	46 0(9)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2006-2007	Faroe Islands U-17	9 0(0)
2008	Faroe Islands U-19	3 0(0)
2009–	Faroe Islands U-21	9 0(3)
2009–	Faroe Islands	58 0(7)
1 Only league games are given. Status: February 17, 2020 2 As of February 17, 2020

Jóan Símun Edmundsson (born July 26, 1991 in Toftir ) is a Faroese football player . He plays for Arminia Bielefeld and the Faroese national team

society

Edmundsson began his career at B68 Toftir , for whose first team he played in 2008 at the age of 17 and was one of the regulars from the start. In September 2009 he completed a four-day training session at Manchester City , with other British and Scandinavian clubs showing interest in him.

In December 2009 he moved to Newcastle United's youth academy on loan and signed a long-term contract during the 2010 summer break. After initially playing for the Newcastle United reserve team, he was loaned out to Gateshead FC , who played in the Conference National , in January 2011 to get more match practice. He played his first league game on the 29th matchday in a 2-2 draw against the Kidderminster Harriers . Overall, he ran on in five games for the club; after his return to Newcastle United he came to no further appearances in the first team.

At the beginning of 2012, Edmundsson completed a trial training session with the Norwegian first division club Viking Stavanger and was signed for the next two years in mid-February. He played his first competitive game on matchday five in the away game against Strømsgodset Toppfotball , when he came on in the 62nd minute for King Gyan when the final score was 0-1. In September 2012 he was loaned to the Danish second division club FC Fredericia . In early 2014 he signed a contract with AB Argir and returned to the Faroe Islands. During the summer break he moved to city rivals HB Tórshavn . Another six months later he moved to Vejle BK in the second Danish division. The season ended in fifth place.

From 2016 Edmundsson ran for the first division club Odense BK . In the first season, the seventh place was taken. In 2016/17 Edmundsson was one of the regular players and achieved relegation with the team in the relegation round after eleventh place in the preliminary round.

For the 2018/19 season Edmundsson moved to Germany to join the second division Arminia Bielefeld and received a contract that runs until 2020. He is the first player from the Faroe Islands in German professional football. On August 5, 2018, he scored his first goal for Ostwestfalen in his debut on the first match day in the Voith Arena against 1. FC Heidenheim with the goal to make it 1-1.

European Cup

In the 2014/15 season, Edmundsson played four games in the Champions League . He made his debut in the first qualifying round in a 1-1 away game against Lincoln Red Imps FC . At 5-2 in the second leg, Edmundsson scored the goal to make it 3-0. In the second qualifying round, HB was eliminated with 0: 3 and 1: 3 against FK Partizan Belgrade .

National team

Edmundsson is the Faroe Islands international and previously played for the U17 , U19 and U21 teams.

He made his senior national team debut on August 12, 2009 in qualifying for the 2010 World Cup in the 1-0 defeat by France in Tórshavn, when he came on for Christian Holst in the 29th minute . His first goal for the senior national team he scored on August 11, 2010 in Tallinn to 1-0 lead in the 2-1 defeat against Estonia in qualifying for the European Championship 2012 ; it was the very first goal in qualifying.

In qualifying for the 2016 European Championship , he scored the only goal of the game in a 1-0 away win against Greece on November 14, 2014 .

Web links

Commons : Jóan Edmundsson  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Profile on FaroeSoccer.com (Faroese)
• Profile on danskfodbold.com (Danish)
• Brief portrait at Newcastle United
• Jóan Edmundsson in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Jóan Edmundsson in the database of weltfussball.de
• Jóan Edmundsson in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jóan Símun Edmundsson at Manchester City , September 7, 2009. Retrieved November 18, 2010.
2. ^ Símun Edmundsson signs permanent deal with Newcastle . In: soccerandequipment.com , August 13, 2010. Accessed September 17, 2010.  (English)
3. ^ Jóan Símun Edmundsson on loan to Gateshead (English), January 9, 2011. Retrieved January 12, 2011.
4. ↑ Gateshead 2-2 Kidderminster Harriers ( Memento of the original from September 17, 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. (English), January 9, 2011. Retrieved March 16, 2011. 
5. ↑ Jóan Símun Edmundsson to Viking Stavanger in Norway (English), February 18, 2012. Accessed February 20, 2012.
6. ↑ STRØMSGODSET - VIKING (Norwegian)
7. ↑ Jóan Símun Edmundsson joins Danish 2nd level top team FC Fredericia (English), September 3, 2012. Accessed September 4, 2012.
8. ↑ Edmundsson rumored to AB (English), February 21, 2014. Retrieved March 19, 2014.
9. ↑ Jóan Símun Edmundsson signs for HB Tórshavn (English), June 26, 2014. Accessed January 25, 2015.
10. ↑ Jóan Símun Edmundsson to Denmark (English), December 31, 2014. Accessed January 25, 2015.
11. ↑ OB køber offensivspiller i Vejle (Danish), January 29, 2016. Accessed June 1, 2017.
12. ↑ DSC Arminia Bielefeld GmbH & Co. KG (ed.): DSC signs Jóan Símun Edmundsson. In: Arminia Bielefeld. April 30, 2018, accessed April 30, 2018 . 
13. ↑ Olympia Verlag GmbH (ed.): Edmundsson counters Schnatterer: No winner in Heidenheim. In: kicker online. August 5, 2018, accessed August 16, 2018 . 
14. ↑ last gasp Estonia deny Faroes . In: sky sports , August 11, 2010. Accessed September 17, 2010.  (English)
15. ↑ Faroe Islands beat Greece , November 15, 2014. Accessed January 25, 2015.