Olga Færseth

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Olga Færseth
Personnel
Surname Andrea Olga Færseth
birthday October 6, 1975
place of birth Keflavík ,  Iceland
position striker
Juniors
Years station
Keflavík ÍF
Women
Years station Games (goals) 1
1992-1994 Breiðablik Kópavogur 37 0(45)
1995-2002 KR Reykjavík 101 (144)
2003-2005 ÍBV Vestmannaeyjar 34 0(45)
2006-2008 KR Reykjavík 45 0(35)
2010 UMF Selfoss 4 00(3)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1991-1992 Iceland U-17 9 00(6)
1993-1995 Iceland U-21 9 00(3)
1994-2006 Iceland 54 0(14)
1 Only league games are given.

Andrea Olga Færseth (born October 6, 1975 in Keflavík ) is a former Icelandic basketball and football player . As a basketball player, she was four times Icelandic champion with Keflavík ÍF . The two-time Icelandic "Player of the Year" was even more successful as an attacking player in soccer and was also used in the Icelandic national team between 1994 and 2006 . At club level, she played mostly for record champions Breiðablik Kópavogur , KR Reykjavík and ÍBV Vestmannaeyjar , with whom she celebrated several championships and cup wins and was six times top scorer.

Career

society

Olga began playing basketball at her hometown club Keflavík ÍF and was four times champion, scoring 111 points in five games in 1994. At the same time, she also played football and made her debut at the age of 16 on May 27, 1992 for Breiðablik Kópavogur in the Icelandic league, where she taxed four goals to make it 4-0 against Þór Akureyri . She was instant champion with the club and was the second best scorer of the season with 13 goals. But they lost both the cup final and the Supercup final to ÍA Akranes . The 1993 season was not so successful. Ásthildur Helgadóttir , one of the main players in the club, had switched to rival KR Reykjavík , where she immediately became champions. Olga only managed eight goals and failed in the cup in the semi-finals. Things went better in 1994: She became top scorer for the first time with 24 goals and the club won the championship and cup double.

For the 1995 season she then moved to KR Reykjavík, while Ásthildur Helgadóttir returned to Breiðablik to become champions again in 1995, while KR was fourth and Olga only got nine goals. But she was able to win the Supercup for the first time with KR Reykjavík against Breiðablik. In the following season you get 11 goals and KR was runner-up. It went even better in 1997: Olga was top scorer for the second time with 19 goals and KR with 14 wins in 14 games with only six goals conceded. In the cup, however, they failed in the semi-finals, but were able to win the Supercup again against Breiðablik.

In 1998 they lost a league game, but were again champions and Olga again top scorer with 23 goals. She was then chosen for the first time "Iceland's Footballer of the Year". But they lost the cup and Supercup finals against Breiðablik.

In 1999 she scored only eight goals and was only used in twelve games, but KR was again undefeated champions and won the cup for the first time. After three championships in a row they were only runner-up in 2000 and also lost the cup final, but Olga was again top scorer with 26 goals. That was repeated in 2001, only that this time they failed in the cup semi-finals, but Olga was able to score two more goals, whereupon she was again voted "Icelandic Player of the Year".

For the 2002 season, Ásthildur Helgadóttir moved to KR and both ensured with 20 goals each that KR was champion again and then also won the cup final 4: 3 against local rivals Valur , with Olga scoring the decisive goal.

Olga then left the club in 2003 and went to ÍBV. In the league it was only enough to runner-up and their 19 goals were only enough for second place on the top scorer list, but in the cup quarter-finals they won 4-2 against KR, with Olga scoring three goals. However, they then lost the cup final against Valur Reykjavík . Also in 2004 it was enough for her and the club only to second places in the league, but at least ÍBV won the cup with her for the only time.

2005 was not a good year for her: in only six games she scored only six goals and ÍBV was only third and was eliminated 6-1 against Valur Reykjavík in the quarter-finals. She then returned to KR in 2006, was team captain there and scored 15 goals, but was only third in the championship and was eliminated again in the cup quarter-finals against Valur Reykjavík. In 2007 she was third-best goalscorer and KR runner-up with 16 goals, but she won the cup by beating her home club Keflavík ÍF 3-0 , where she scored the first goal. She was able to repeat the cup win in 2008, even if she could only contribute a goal in the quarter-finals. In the championship jumped out again the runner-up, but it could only contribute four goals. On September 13, 2008, she played her last first division game for KR. She had scored 269 goals in 217 league games and 47 goals in 47 cup games and Supercup games.

In 2010 she ended her retirement and at the age of 35 she played four games for UMF Selfoss .

National team

In 1991 and 1992, Olga played nine international matches for the Icelandic U-17 team at the Nordic Cup , where the Icelandic women finished fifth. In 1993 she took part in the Nordic Cup with the U-21 team in the older age group, but was not used in the game for 7th place against the German team , which was lost in extra time. In August 1994 she took part again with the U-21 team in the Nordic Cup.

Immediately afterwards, Olga played her first international match on September 24, 1994 at the age of 18 in a 1-0 victory in qualifying for the European Championship in 1995 against the Dutch , was immediately in the starting line-up and scored the winning goal with her first international goal. In the following game she was also in the starting line-up in a 6-1 win against Greece and scored the last of the six goals. But it took six years until their next goal. Although she also played in the next game, the quarter-final first leg of the European Championship qualification against England over 90 minutes, she was substituted in the second leg and in the two following games in the last 20 minutes. Then she played three more games with the U-21 team, but missed a game with the senior national team. This was followed by two games in which she was substituted on three minutes before the end of the game for tactical reasons. At the following Algarve Cup in 1996 she was only used in the second group game against Denmark , but replaced after 74 minutes. At the beginning of June she was substituted in for two qualifying games for the 1997 European Championship and substituted for two friendly games at the end of June. This was followed by an international break of 14 months in which she missed seven games.

On August 30, 1997, she was then in the first qualifying game for the 1999 World Cup against Sweden back in the starting line-up, but was replaced after 78 minutes. She was substituted on once in the next seven games and only played over 90 minutes twice. Then there was another break for her, this time 19 months, in which she only missed three games. After she was only substituted in in two games in the summer of 2000, she scored her third international goal on August 22, 2000 in the last qualifying match for the 2001 European Championship against Ukraine in her 25th international match in the 3rd minute of the game. The game was lost 2: 3, but she was a regular from then on and was only substituted four times for tactical reasons in the next 26 games. You get in these games also eleven international goals, where you scored your goals mostly in games with a close result. With high victories, such as the 10-0 win against Poland on September 13, 2003, she let her teammates go first. The only exception is the game against Hungary on May 29, 2004 in which she contributed her only "three-pack" to make it 5-0 and also scored her last international goals. After her 51st game on November 13, 2004, in which she was substituted in the 90th minute, she had to sit out again for ten months and missed four games. In September 2005 she came on as a substitute for the last game of the year in the second half and in the first two games of 2006 she also came on as a substitute and substitute. With their 54th game on April 12, 2006, their national team career ended as it had started: as in their first game, the Dutch were the opponents, but with the difference that they won the game and Olga did not score a goal.

In her 54 games she scored a total of 14 goals, with which she was eighth on the Icelandic top scorer list ten years later , but had to share that place with the still active Harpa Þorsteinsdóttir on day three since April 12, 2016 International goals scored.

For a European Championship or World Cup finals, she was never able to qualify with Iceland. In qualifying for the 1995 European Championships , they failed in the quarter-finals to England and were therefore not qualified for the 1995 World Cup. In qualifying for the European Championship in 1997 , she missed the play-offs against defending champion Germany , who was too strong for the Icelanders. They finished qualifying for the 2001 European Championship in last place and in qualifying for the 2003 World Cup , the Icelanders failed in the playoff games to England, although they had brought their team 1-0 lead in the 2-2 home game. The playoff games of the European Championship qualification 2005 , in which they failed to Norway , were the last in which they played over 90 minutes, but could not prevent the 2: 7 home and 1: 2 away defeat. The Icelanders were only able to qualify for the 2009 European Championship for the first time after their active time as a national player .

successes

Awards

Private

Olga and her partner Pálína Guðrún Bragadóttir have three children: Jakob Þór Bergþórsson (* 1994), Kolfinna Rán Færseth (* 2013) and Melkorka Alda Færseth (* 2015). Her daughter Kolfinna Rán was diagnosed with cancer in June 2015.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ visir.is: "Metið hennar Olgu Færseth lifði af áhlaup Unnar Töru"
  2. ↑ 1. deild kvenna: Þór - Breiðablik 0-4
  3. ↑ Markahæstu menn - Íslandsmót - 1st deild kvenna
  4. ↑ Markahæstu menn - Íslandsmót - 1st deild kvenna
  5. ↑ Meistarakeppni kvenna Breiðablik - KR 0-1
  6. ↑ Markahæstu menn Íslandsmót - Mizunodeild kvenna
  7. ↑ Markahæstu menn - Íslandsmót - Stofndeild kvenna
  8. ↑ Markahæstu menn - Íslandsmót - Meistaradeild kvenna
  9. ↑ a b c rsssf.com: Iceland - Women's Players' Footballer of the Year
  10. ↑ Markahæstu menn Íslandsmót - Landssímadeild kvenna
  11. ↑ Markahæstu menn Íslandsmót - Landssímadeild kvenna
  12. ↑ Coca-Cola bikar kvenna KR - Valur 4-3
  13. ↑ VISA-bikar kvenna ÍBV - KR 4-2
  14. ↑ VISA-bikar kvenna: Keflavík - KR 0-3
  15. ↑ Game statistics of the Icelandic Association
  16. ↑ sunnlenska.is: "Olga Færseth í Selfoss"
  17. ↑ Nordic Cup (Women U-17)
  18. ↑ Nordic Cup (Women U-20 / U-21 / U-23)
  19. ↑ Holland - Iceland 0-1
  20. ↑ Hvíta-Russia - Iceland 0-5
  21. ↑ independent.co: "Walker's double rescues England"
  22. ↑ Færseth fjölskyldan
  23. ↑ visir.is: "Dóttir Olgu Færseth greindist með krabbamein: 'Ofboðsetzt kjaftshögg'"

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personal data
SURNAME Olga Færseth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Andrea Olga Færseth (full name); Andrea Faerseth (spelling of FIFA)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Icelandic soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Keflavík , Iceland