Kristján Andrésson

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Kristján Andrésson
Player information
Nickname "Krille"
birthday March 27, 1981
place of birth Eskilstuna , SwedenSwedenSweden 
citizenship IcelandersIcelandersIcelandic Swedish
SwedishSwedish
height 1.82 m
Playing position Back center
Throwing hand right
Clubs as active
from ... to society
0000-1999 SwedenSweden HK Eskil
1999-2005 SwedenSweden IF Guif
National team
  Games (goals)
IcelandIceland Iceland 13 (10)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to society
2006-2007 SwedenSweden IF Guif (Assistant Trainer)
2007-2016 SwedenSweden IF Guif
2016-2020 SwedenSweden Sweden
2019-2020 GermanyGermany Rhine-Neckar lion

Status: February 22, 2020

Kristján Andrésson (born March 27, 1981 in Eskilstuna , Sweden ) is an Icelandic handball coach and former national player. He coached the Swedish men's national handball team between 2016 and 2020 .

Career

Kristján Andrésson started playing handball in his hometown at HK Eskil. With the youth team of his year he was Swedish runner-up. In the final he failed to Växjö HK, in whose ranks Jonas Källman was. In 1999, the player playing in the middle back moved to the Swedish first division club IF Guif .

Kristján Andrésson was a member of the Icelandic national team , for which his father Andrés Kristjánsson also appeared . With Iceland he took part in the 2004 Olympic Games . In total, he scored 10 goals in 13 international matches.

In October 2004 Kristján Andrésson sustained a cruciate ligament injury . He returned to the field in the second half of the 2004/05 season. Although Kristján Andrésson ran on again for Guif at the beginning of the following season, but he suffered another knee injury in October 2005. As a result, he ended his career. In 2006 he became an assistant coach to Guif. After Guif only finished 11th in the 2006/07 season, he was promoted to coach. Under his leadership, Guif was twice Swedish runner-up. In the summer of 2016 he left his job at Guif and took over as coach of the Swedish national team. Under his leadership, Sweden advanced to the final of the European Championship 2018 . From July 2019 to February 2020 he coached the German club Rhein-Neckar Löwen .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b mbl.is: Kristján með slitið krossband , accessed on January 27, 2018
  2. ↑ hsi.is: A landslið karla , accessed on January 27, 2018
  3. ↑ a b c handbollskanalen.se: Kristján Andrésson blir förbundskapten för Sverige , accessed on January 27, 2018
  4. ↑ mbl.is: Tveir markverðir til Aþenu , accessed on January 27, 2018
  5. ↑ mbl.is: Ævintýrið heldur áfram , accessed on January 27, 2018
  6. ↑ mbl.is: KRISTJÁN Andrésson skoraði 3 mörk fyrir GUIF þegar liðið sigraði Heid ... , accessed on January 27, 2018
  7. ↑ mbl.is: VIGNIR Svavarsson, landsliðsmaður í handknattleik, skoraði þrjú mörk ... , accessed on January 27, 2018
  8. ↑ mbl.is: Kristján glímir við þrálát meiðsli , accessed on January 27, 2018
  9. ↑ mbl.is: Kristján þjálfar lið GUIF , accessed on January 27, 2018
  10. ↑ handball-world.news: Sweden gives away the final ticket it believed to be safe - and gets it back in extension , accessed on January 27, 2018
  11. ↑ handball-world.news: Rhein-Neckar Löwen confirm: Kristjan Andresson will be the new head coach , accessed on June 15, 2018
  12. ↑ handball-world.news: Rhein-Neckar Löwen part with Kristjan Andresson , accessed on February 22, 2020
Note: Icelanders are referred to by their first name or first and last name, but not just their surname. Further information can be found under Icelandic personal name .
personal data
SURNAME Kristján Andrésson
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Andrésson, Kristján
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Icelandic handball player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Eskilstuna , Sweden