Súni Olsen

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Súni Olsen
Súni Olsen 2012.jpg
Súni Olsen (2012)
Personnel
birthday March 7, 1981
place of birth Tórshavn ,  Faroe Islands
size 181 cm
position midfield
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1997 GÍ Gøta II 3 0(2)
1997-2000 GÍ Gøta 48 (20)
1998 GÍ Gøta III 1 0(2)
2001-2002 FC Zwolle 22 0(3)
2002-2005 GÍ Gøta 60 (31)
2005-2007 Aalborg BK 26 0(1)
2008 Viborg FF 7 0(1)
2008 B36 Tórshavn 2 0(0)
2009-2010 Víkingur Gøta 38 0(9)
2011-2013 B36 Tórshavn 68 (14)
2014-2015 Víkingur Gøta 41 (13)
2016 KÍ Klaksvík 19 0(6)
2017 B68 Toftir II 1 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2001-2013 Faroe Islands 53 0(3)
1 Only league games are given.

Súni Olsen (born March 7, 1981 in Tórshavn ) is a former Faroese football player who was also active for the national team . He is one of the few footballers from the Faroe Islands to have played in professional football .

Career

society

Olsen began his career at Faroese club GÍ Gøta and made his debut for the second team in the third division on matchday 15 of the 1997 season in a 10-0 home win against B71 Sandur II . He immediately scored his first goal 8-0, and at the end of the season the team rose to first place. On the last day of the match he came on for the first time for the first team in the top division , in the 2-2 home game against FS Vágar Olsen was substituted in for Erland Tvørfoss in the 78th minute . In the following season he was already one of the regular players, on the ninth matchday he scored his first goal in the first division with the goal to 3-0 final score in the home game against TB Tvøroyri . After he was able to achieve 13 goals in 2000 in the past season, he was obliged by the Dutch second division club FC Zwolle , who achieved promotion in the 2001/02 season as first place. In 2002, however, he moved back to Gøta, with whom he was in the cup finals in 2003 and 2005 . After a 1: 3 after extra time against B36 Tórshavn in 2003 he was victorious in 2005 with a 4-1 against ÍF Fuglafjørður . In 2004 he was also voted Player of the Year . Olsen scored 26 goals in three years of play. With his good goalscoring rate as a midfielder, he drew attention again, so in 2005 he was signed by the renowned Danish first division club Aalborg BK . On the fifth day of the 2005/06 season he came on for Rasmus Würtz in a 2-0 win against Esbjerg fB and thus made his debut. On matchday 27 of the 2006/07 season, Olsen scored his only goal in a 2-0 win against Vejle BK , and he finished third with his team this season. In early 2008 he moved to league rivals Viborg FF and played seven league games, after the end of the season, relegation was on the books. Then he returned to his home at B36 Tórshavn. The next year he played for Víkingur Gøta and won the cup final 3-2 against EB / Streymur . The game for the Supercup against champion HB Tórshavn was lost with 1: 2. In 2011 Olsen played again for B36 and won his first championship. The team included Jákup á Borg and Atli Danielsen . The game for the Supercup was lost this time with 1: 2 against cup winners EB / Streymur. After he moved back to Víkingur Gøta in 2014, he won the national cup by beating HB Tórshavn 1-0 in the final. The success could be repeated in 2015 by a 3-0 in the final against NSÍ Runavík . He also won the Supercup on penalties against champions B36 Tórshavn earlier this year . After moving to KÍ Klaksvík , he won the cup final on penalties against his old club Víkingur Gøta in 2016, with Olsen converting the decisive penalty. A year later, Olsen completed another game for the second team of B68 Toftir in the third division, after which he ended his career.

National team

Olsen made his debut for the Faroese national team together with Andrew av Fløtum and Christian Høgni Jacobsen on January 31, 2001 as part of the Nordic Championship against Sweden . The game in Växjö , where Olsen came on in the 58th minute, ended 0-0. In the qualifying game for the European Championship 2004 against Lithuania in Toftir , he scored his first of three goals in the 1: 3 defeat with the interim equalization. On October 15, 2013, he played in the qualifying game for the 2014 World Cup, his 53rd and last game for the national team against Austria , it was lost in Tórshavn 3-0, with Olsen being substituted in the 82nd minute by Jóan Símun Edmundsson .

successes

Individual evidence

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predecessor Office successor
Pól Thorsteinsson Faroe Islands Footballer of the Year
2004 		Jákup Mikkelsen
personal data
SURNAME Olsen, Súni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Faroese soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Tórshavn , Faroe Islands