Sigurður Jónsson

Sigurdur Jónsson ( born September 27, 1966 in Akranes ) is a retired Icelandic footballer who began a coaching career after he finished his career.

Career

Sigurdur made ​​his debut as a young emerging talent at the age of 15 years in 1982 for ÍA Akranes in the first deild. Already in the following year he made his debut in the Icelandic national team. In 1984 he moved to Sheffield Wednesday in the First Division. At first he was only a reserve player in the English top flight, so it was the following year awarded to the second division Barnsley FC in the Second Division. After his return in the summer of 1986 he came though frequently used, but only in the season 1988/89 he was propagated on the court and played 28 season games. Then signed him the reigning champions Arsenal. Here, however, he remained only the role of the substitute player to re- win the league title in the season 1990/91 he wore in two stakes at. In the following season without a single League game, he returned in the summer of 1992 to ÍA Akranes to Iceland back. Until 1995 he was appointed master force with the club four times in series national champion, he also won the 1993 National Cup. In the same year he was named Footballer of the Year.

In 1996, Sigurdur abroad again, a new club was the Swedish club Örebro SK. In the Allsvenskan he was on the side of Mirosław Kubisztal, Dan Sahlin and Niclas Rasck also regular players. After the end of the season in the fall of 1997, he moved to Scotland. For Dundee United he played three seasons. In the summer of 2000 he returned again to ÍA Akranes, after another half of the season in the first deild he ended his active career.

From 2002 Sigurdur worked as a coach. The first stop was FH Hafnarfjörður, the club he led to the sixth place in the Premier League. From the following season, he was responsible for the second division Víkingur Reykjavík. With this he rose to the elite class, where he missed, however, with the team in the league. After another season he moved to UMF Grindavíkur on. There, however, he was released early in the face of impending descent just before end of season.

2007 Sigurdur returned back to Sweden. There he took over as successor by Anders Grönhagen the coaching job at Djurgårdens IF. After two seasons, the club released him in mid-November 2008, a year before the expiry of his contract due to the " non- attainment of the goals set ." In December 2009, he signed a force from the turn of the year three-year contract with the third division relegated Enköpings SK. After the club out in the second season back in the third-class Division 1, the club extended his contract until the end of 2014. Though the club rose as the last of his team itself off again, but he remained in office.