Bogi Løkin

Bogi Abrahamson Løkin [ bo ː ː jɪ Lø tʃɪn ] (* October 22, 1988 ) is a Faroese football player who was also active for the national team.

Football

Clubs

Løkin began his career at NSÍ Runavík, for which he gave his debut at age 16 on matchday eleventh of the 2005 season in the Premier League when he came on in the 80th minute when the score was 0:1 for Einar Tróndargjógv. The game was lost 0-2 away. During the season, he was alternately employed in the first and second team. In the top division he scored this year for the first team already one of the regulars. His first goal in the highest Faroese division he managed at the second match in a 5-2 away win against VB / Sumba, Løkin scored the 3:1. In 2007 he was able to celebrate his first championship. Players were then Jóhan Troest Davidsen, Hjalgrim Elttør, Jónhard Frederiksberg, Høgni Christian Jacobsen, Jens Martin Knudsen, Pól Thorsteinsson and Einar Tróndargjógv. The following Supercup Cup Winners EB / Streymur was defeated 4-0. The game for the Atlantic Cup against the Icelandic champions Valur Reykjavík but was lost with 2:5. After the end of the season in 2009, he moved to Denmark to study law. There he was held in December with BK Frem Copenhagen in the Viasat Sport Division also a new club and played there together with his compatriot Jónas Þór Naes. However, after half a year and the fixed relegation to the third tier, he returned again to NSÍ Runavík back. , A year later he moved to ÍF Fuglafjørður. This year, the runner-up was achieved, with Løkin could deny only just over half of all league games due to injuries. Since the end of the season he is without a club.

European Cup

Seven times Løkin has been used in European matches. He made his debut in 2005/ 06 for NSÍ Runavík in the first leg of the first qualifying round in the 0-3 home defeat against Liepaja Metalurgs when he came on in the 67th minute for Justin Tróndargjógv. The return leg without the participation Løkins also ended 0:3.

National

Løkin gave Egil á Bø together with Leif Andreas Lava Olsen Niclasen and his debut for the Faroese national team on 20 August 2008 in a friendly against Portugal in Aveiro, when he came off the bench with the score at 0-2 in the 54th minute for Bárður Olsen ( Full 0:5 ). This completed the first time since joining FIFA in 1988 father and son caps for the Faroes. Known International was Løkin by its 1-0 win over Austria in Tórshavn on 11 October 2008 in 47 minutes ( Full 1:1). His father was one of the players from Landskrona in 1990, at the Faroe Islands gained unexpectedly 1-0. The game in 2008 was seen as a remake of the classic, and since then, father and son are regarded as " national heroes ". His last game so far, he completed on 15 August 2012 at the friendly match against Iceland, which was lost in Reykjavík with 0:2. Løkin came on in the 80th minute when the score was 0:1 for Daniel Udsen.

Achievements

Personal

Bogi Løkin is the son of former international Abraham Løkin. His younger brother, Charles (* 1991) is also football player.