Pétur Pétursson

Pétur Pétursson (born 27 June 1959 in Akranes ) is a former Icelandic football player and current coach. He is currently working as an assistant coach for the Icelandic national football team.

• 3.1 As a player

Playing career

Association

Pétur was in the junior department of Íþróttabandalag Akraness to 1976. 1976/1977 he came into the first team his home club. There he became a regular player and had a good performance. Even in his first season he won the Skagamenn the national champion of the highest Icelandic league. His achievements were also the European mainland teams did not go unnoticed, and so it was in the summer of 1978, a change in the Dutch Eredivisie, Feyenoord Rotterdam. In his first season he was next to the Czech Vaclav Jezek coach only foreigner in the team of the Rotterdam. With the Red and Whites in 1980, he could win the KNVB Cup. Although he regularly played there in three years and scored goals, he was left to the summer transfer window 1981 drag to RSC Anderlecht in Belgium, where he was at the end of the season runner-up. But after only a year there, Pétur league rivals Royal Antwerp FC followed, where he remained for two years, before he returned again for a year to Feyenoord. Subsequently, Pétur adopted towards Spain, the then second division club Hércules CF, where he remained with a brief interruption, until 1987. Then he moved back to the home island and KR Reykjavík secured the services of striker. After four years with the capital club, he finished in 1991 his active professional career.

National

Pétur made ​​his debut in the national team of Iceland in 1978. Until 1990, he ran 41 times for his country on, scoring eleven goals. His last game he played in September 1990 against France. For a World Cup or a European, he was never able to qualify with his team.

Coaching career

Shortly after his playing career hit a Pétur the coach. In 1994 he took over Keflavík ÍF, but remained there only a year. After a long pause, he oversaw from 2000 to KR Reykjavík, for which he had already been active as a player. After two years, this ratio has been disconnected. Since 2007, he assisted Davíð Ólafur Jóhannesson, the Cheftraiener the Icelandic national team.

Achievements

As a player

• Icelandic national champion with Íþróttabandalag Akraness: 1977
• Icelandic Cup winner with Íþróttabandalag Akraness: 1978
• KNVB Cup with Feyenoord Rotterdam: 1980