Páll á Reynatúgvu

Páll á Reynatúgvu in 2015.

Páll á Reynatúgvu (born July 26, 1967 in Tórshavn ) is a Faroese physiotherapist , politician of the left-wing Republican Tjóðveldi and a former Faroese football player. In the past, he sat for many years as a member of parliament in the Faroese town of Løgting , was Minister of Social Affairs in the Faroese state government and mayor of his home town of Sandur. He has been chairman of Løgting since mid-September 2015 .

Life

Páll á Reynatúgvu is the son of Niels and Ada á Reynatúgvu. He grew up in Sandur .

Soccer

society

From 1984 to 2004 he was an active soccer player and played exclusively for his hometown club B71 Sandur . In 1989 he was promoted to the 1st Deild , and the championship was won directly in the first season. In the same year á Reynatúgvu was in the cup final against HB Tórshavn . After a 1: 1 a replay was scheduled, which was lost 0: 2. 1990 followed as the last place the relegation to the second division. After the immediate resurgence, the class could be held. In the cup final in 1993, the opponent was again HB Tórshavn. After a 1-1 draw in the first game, with á Reynatúgvu scoring the final score, won the cup in the replay with á Reynatúgvu as the winning goal scorer. The next year the opponent in the cup final was KÍ Klaksvík , who got the upper hand with 2-1. B71 remained in the top division until 1997. In 1998 the immediate resurgence was achieved, in 2001 á Reynatúgvu rose one last time with his team after losing the relegation games against Skála ÍF with 1: 4 and 1: 0. After a second place in the second division he was defeated in the relegation for promotion to the ninth place in the first division, EB / Streymur , in three games. In 2004, the second place was again occupied, this time defeated B71 in two games ÍF Fuglafjørður . This was followed by a longer break until he ran up again on the third match day of the 2009 season for the second team in the 2nd Deild in a 3: 3 draw in the home game against AB Argir II .

European Cup

In total, á Reynatúgvu played four games in the European Cup. In 1994 he made his debut in the European Cup Winners' Cup for B71 Sandur in the home game against HJK Helsinki , which was lost 5-0. After a 2-0 draw in the second leg, B71 was eliminated from the competition. In the 1996/97 UEFA Cup match between B71 Sandur and APOEL Nicosia in Cyprus, he scored his only goal in Europe to mean a 2-1 lead, the final score was 2-4 from B71. After the 1: 5 defeat in the first leg, this also meant elimination.

National team

In 1993 á Reynatúgvu also played in the Faroese national football team . He made his debut on May 22, 1993 in Brussels in the 3-0 defeat against Belgium in qualifying games for the 1994 World Cup , when he came on for Allan Mørkøre in the 90th minute . His last of his total of five games he completed on September 8, 1993 in Toftir in the World Cup qualifier against Romania , which was lost 4-0.

successes

• 1 × Faroese champion : 1989
• 1 × Faroese Cup winner : 1993

politics

He was elected for the first time as a member of the Faroese Parliament ( Løgting ) for Tjóðveldi in 1998 and stayed there for the next 10 years, only interrupted by his time as Minister of Social Affairs in the state government from 2002 to 2003. In 2011 he was again elected to the Løgting and in 2015 he was also re-elected. He has been a member of several parliamentary committees there in the past. He was also mayor of his hometown Sandur from 2001 to 2002 and from 2003 to 2009.

On September 15, 2015, he was unanimously elected as the new President of Parliament (Løgtingsformaður).

Web links

• Páll á Reynatúgvu - um meg , tjodveldi.fo (Faroese)
• Páll á Reynatúgvu , logting.fo (Faroese)
• Vil ikki hava riddarakross , in.fo, June 9, 2016
• Profile on FaroeSoccer.com (Faroese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Páll á Reynatúgvu , logting.fo
2. ↑ Løgtingsformaður valdur , kvf.fo, Sept. 15, 2015 (in Faroese)