Kaj Leo Johannesen

Kaj Leo Johannesen
Kaj Leo Johannesen (2008)
Personnel
Surname	Kaj Leo Holm Johannesen
birthday	August 28, 1964
place of birth	Tórshavn ,  Faroe Islands
size	180 cm
position	goalkeeper
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1984-2004	HB Tórshavn	214 (0)
1997	HB Tórshavn II	1 (0)
2000-2002	HB Tórshavn II	24 (0)
2006-2007	HB Tórshavn II	2 (0)
2014	HB Tórshavn II	1 (0)
2016	HB Tórshavn II	2 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1991-1992	Faroe Islands	4 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Kaj Leo Holm Johannesen (born August 28, 1964 in Tórshavn , Faroe Islands ) is a Faroese politician and former chairman of the unionist party Sambandsflokkurin . He was Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands ( Løgmaður ) from 2008 to 2015 . Before that he was active as a Faroese soccer goalkeeper and handball player.

Origin and education

Kaj Leo is the son of Karin, geb. Holm, and Leo Hans Johannesen from Mykines . He is married to Jórun, geb. Bærentsen, and they have two children together. After graduating from school, he went to sea at the age of 14. Kaj Leo Johannesen is a trained skipper and was, among other things, an entrepreneur in the fish trade.

Political career

From 1997 to 2000 Johannesen was councilor in the municipality of Tórshavn . He has been a member of the Løgting state parliament since 2002 . In 2004 he was re-elected and is chairman of the foreign committee there. Since 2004 he has also been the party leader of the Unionists.

In 2007, Kaj Leo Johannesen was second on his party list for the Folketing election . He briefly represented the first-placed Edmund Joensen in December 2007 as a successor . On September 24, 2008 , Johannesen became the new Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands after the resignation of Jóannes Eidesgaard .

Resignation from office (2015)

After the ruling coalition suffered heavy losses in the parliamentary elections ( Løgtingsval ) on September 1, 2015, Kaj Leo Holm Johannesen announced his resignation as Prime Minister the following day. On September 3, 2015, he was formally dismissed from his office by Parliament President Jógvan á Lakjuni and at the same time asked to continue the office of Prime Minister until a new coalition was formed.

In the course of the same day he also resigned the presidency of the unionist party Sambandsflokkurin in order to clear the way for a fresh start. However, as a simple MP from his party, he will belong to the next Løgting.

Soccer

society

Johannesen did not start playing football until 1984 and was the goalkeeper of HB Tórshavn until 2007 , but was only rarely used in the end and mainly for the second team. He played 299 competitive games for his club, placing him in second place among the record players after Rúni Nolsøe . He made his debut in 1984 on the twelfth match day of the first division in the 1: 4 home defeat against LÍF Leirvík , when he replaced the previous goalkeeper Mikkjal Mikkelsen for the last three games. In the Cup he scored his only competitive goal in the 1995 group stage in a 22-0 record win against Skansin Tórshavn . In his career he won four championship titles and seven cup wins with HB. For the first two championship titles he played with Uni Arge , Jan Dam and Jóannes Jakobsen , among others , in 1998 Jan Dam, Andrew av Fløtum , Hans Fróði Hansen , Jóhannis Joensen , Allan Mørkøre and Jens Erik Rasmussen were in the team. In the 2004 championship, he only played the last league game when the title was already certain. At that time Jákup á Borg , Jan Dam, Rógvi Jacobsen and Heðin á Lakjuni were his teammates. He then played five more times for the second team, most recently in 2016.

European Cup

Johannesen has 15 games in the European Cup. He made his debut in 1993 for HB Tórshavn in the preliminary round of the European Cup Winners' Cup in the away game against RAF Jelgava , which was lost 1-0. However, since the opponent did not play for the second leg, HB was in the main round and met FC Universitatea Craiova , against which HB lost 4-0 and 3-0. His last two games played Johannesen in 1998/99 in the preliminary round of the UEFA Cup against Vaasan PS . After the home game was won 2-0, HB lost 4-0 away and was eliminated from the competition.

National team

In the Faroese national football team he was a substitute for Jens Martin Knudsen . At the beginning of the 1990s he was traded as a possible successor for Knudsen, but that never happened. Nevertheless, he completed four international matches between 1991 and 1992. Johannesen played his first game on September 25, 1991 in the European Championship qualifier against Denmark , when he came on in the 56th minute for Jens Martin Knudsen when the score was 2-0. The game in Landskrona was ultimately lost 4-0. On June 16, 1992 Johannesen came in the World Cup qualifier against Cyprus , which was lost 2-0 in Toftir , for his last national team appearance.

successes

• 4 × Faroese champions : 1988 , 1990 , 1998 , 2004
• 7 × Faroese Cup winners : 1984 , 1987 , 1988 , 1989 , 1992 , 1995 , 1998

Handball

Johannesen also played for the Faroese handball club Kyndil Tórshavn and scored a total of 625 goals in 163 games in the first division until 2005.

Culture

At the beginning of the 1990s, the Faroese public was able to get an idea of Kaj Leo Johannesen's singing skills when he sang the song Vit syngja on the album Vit herja á of the Faroese national football team .

The Faroese punk band 200 dedicated a mocking song to him in 2005 with the title "Sig ikki nei Kaj" (Don't say no, Kaj). At least in one point he and the politically committed punk rockers have the same stance: They fought for the anti-discrimination law adopted in 2006 to protect homosexuality in the Faroe Islands .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kaj Leo loystur úr løgmansembætinum ( Memento from September 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), kvf.fo, September 3, 2015 (Faroese)
2. ↑ Kaj Leo sigur formanssessin frá sær ( Memento from September 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), kvf.fo, September 3, 2015 (Faroese)
3. ↑ DYSTIR OG MÁL (Faroese), accessed on January 4, 2013.
4. ↑ Hesi hava leikt yvir 100 dystir fyri Kyndil ( Memento of March 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (Faroese), December 4, 2005. Retrieved on August 24, 2011.
5. ↑ Kaj Leo Johannesen , rateyourmusic.com
6. ↑ LyricWiki.com - Sig ikki nei Kaj (Faroese, with English summary)

Web links

Commons : Kaj Leo Johannesen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Kaj Leo Johannesen , government.fo (short biography in English)
• Logting.fo - Kaj Leo Johannesen (short biography in Faroese)
• Profile on FaroeseSoccer.com (Faroese)

literature

• Finnur Helmsdal : Reytt og blátt and hvítt - Føroyar and EM-kappingin . Tórshavn 1991 (no ISBN, in Faroese, 192 p. - The book is provided with many photos and not only describes all the Faroe Islands' EURO qualifiers in 1990/91, but also offers many background reports on the qualifying round, from the history of Faroese football, statistics, Biographies, guest comments.) P. 124 (with photo)
• Suni Merkisstein: Koyr á HB. Havnar Bóltfelag 1955-2004 . Tórshavn 2004 - ISBN 99918-3-162-2 (Festschrift 100 years HB with English summary, photos, tables)

predecessor	Office	successor
Lisbeth L. Petersen	Chairman of the Unionists ( Sambandsflokkurin ) 2004 - 2015