Viggó Sigurðsson

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Viggó Sigurðsson
Player information
Full name Viggó Valdemar Sigurðsson
birthday February 11, 1954
place of birth Reykjavík , IcelandIcelandIceland 
citizenship IcelandersIcelanders Icelandic
height 1.92 m
Throwing hand Left
Clubs as active
from ... to society
1970-1988 IcelandIceland Víkingur Reykjavík
1978-1980 SpainSpain FC Barcelona
1980-1982 GermanyGermany Bayer 04 Leverkusen
1982-1985 IcelandIceland Víkingur Reykjavík
National team
  Games (goals)
IcelandIceland Iceland 64 (158)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to society
1985-1986 IcelandIceland Iceland (U21)
1986-1989 IcelandIceland FH Hafnarfjörður
1989-1992 IcelandIceland Haukar Hafnarfjörður
1993-1995 IcelandIceland UMF Stjarnan
1996-2000 GermanyGermany LTV Wuppertal
2000-2004 IcelandIceland Haukar Hafnarfjörður
2004-2006 IcelandIceland Iceland
2006-2006 GermanyGermany SG Flensburg-Handewitt
2008-2009 IcelandIceland Fram Reykjavík
2010-2010 IcelandIceland ÍR
2012–? IcelandIceland KR Reykjavík

As of April 15, 2017

Viggó Valdemar Sigurðsson (born February 11, 1954 in Reykjavík ) is an Icelandic handball coach and former handball player .

Career

As a player

Viggó Sigurðsson played from 1970 for the Icelandic club Víkingur Reykjavík . With Víkingur, the left-hander won the Icelandic championship in 1975. Between 1978 and 1980 Viggó Sigurðsson was under contract with the Spanish club FC Barcelona , with whom he won the Spanish championship in 1980. He then ran two seasons for the German Bundesliga club Bayer 04 Leverkusen . During this period he scored 158 Bundesliga goals. 1982 Viggó Sigurðsson returned to Víkingur, with whom he won the Icelandic championship in 1983. In 1985 he ended his career.

Viggó Sigurðsson played 64 caps for the Icelandic national team , for which he scored 158 goals. With the national team, he finished 13th at the 1978 World Cup .

As a trainer

Viggó Sigurðsson coached the Icelandic U21 national team in 1985 and 1986. He then coached the Icelandic clubs FH Hafnarfjörður (1986–1989), Haukar Hafnarfjörður (1989–1992) and UMF Stjarnan (1993–1995). In 1996 he took over the German second division club LTV Wuppertal , which rose to the Bundesliga in 1997 . In 2000 he took over the coaching position again from Haukar Hafnarfjörður, who won the Icelandic Championship in 2001 and 2003 and the Icelandic Cup in 2001 and 2002. In February 2004 he ended this activity at Haukar. In October 2004, Viggó Sigurðsson took over the Icelandic national team. After the European handball championship in 2006 , he resigned.

From July 2006 to December 2006, Viggó Sigurðsson coached the German Bundesliga club SG Flensburg-Handewitt on an interim basis . Here he represented the regular trainer Kent-Harry Andersson , who was paused for health reasons. In the summer of 2008 Viggó Sigurðsson took over Fram Reykjavík , who he was in charge of until November 2009. In February 2010 he became the coach of the Icelandic first division club ÍR . From 2012 Viggó Sigurðsson worked as a youth coach at KR Reykjavík .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ hsi.is: A landslið karla , accessed on April 15, 2017
  2. ↑ a b sg-flensburg-handewitt.de: Viggò Valdemar Sigurdsson: Interim coach found for the SG , accessed on April 15, 2017
  3. ↑ a b mbl.is: Það var einfaldlega uppselt á alla leiki hjá Víkingi , accessed on April 15, 2017
  4. ↑ bundesligainfo.de: Bayer 04 Leverkusen , accessed on April 15, 2017
  5. ↑ timarit.is: Íslandsmeistarar skotnir íkaf í Hafnarfirði! , accessed April 15, 2017
  6. ↑ timarit.is: Dásamleg tilfinníng , accessed on April 15, 2017
  7. ↑ todor66.com: Men Handball IX World Championship 1978 , accessed April 15, 2017
  8. ↑ mbl.is: Íslandsmeistararnir í handknattleik karla þjálfaralausir , accessed on April 15, 2017
  9. ↑ mbl.is: Viggó vill vera í Fremdstu röð , accessed on April 15, 2017
  10. ↑ handball-world.com: Alfred Gislason presented as the new Icelandic national coach , accessed on April 15, 2017
  11. ↑ rp-online.de: Sigurdsson helps out at Flensburg , accessed on April 15, 2017
  12. ↑ handball-world.com: Viggo Sigurdsson: "It was hard to say goodbye" , accessed on April 15, 2017
  13. ↑ mbl.is: Viggó til Framara , accessed on April 15, 2017
  14. ↑ mbl.is: Viggó says upp hjá Fram , accessed on April 15, 2017
  15. ↑ mbl.is: Mikil áskorun að taka við ÍR-ingum , accessed on April 15, 2017
  16. ↑ sport.moi.is: Viggó Sigurðsson til KR ( Memento from April 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 15, 2017
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 Viggó Sigurðsson
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Viggó Valdemar Sigurðsson (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Icelandic handball player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Reykjavík , Iceland