Veigar Páll Gunnarsson

Veigar Páll Gunnarsson ( born March 21, 1980 in Reykjavík ) is an Icelandic football player. The striker, who made ​​his debut in the Icelandic national team in 2001, was twice the Icelandic and Norwegian national champion once.

Career

Career start in Iceland and bad luck in Norway

Gunnarsson debuted in 1996 for Ungmennafélagid Stjarnan, when he came on as a substitute in the Urvalsdeild used. Despite the decline in the following year he was the club in the second division loyal and established himself as a regular force of the team. After two seasons in the House succeeded in 1999 to rise again. After a season in the excellence that ended the club again to the relegation zone, he left both the club and the country.

New employer Gunnarssons was the unique Norwegian champions Strømsgodset IF. Here, too, failed to materialize lucky and only one relegation place was occupied again. Then he returned to Iceland after one season and signed a contract with KR Reykjavík. With seven goals this season, he contributed to winning the league title. In the following year he led with seven goals in 13 games in the successful defense of the title.

Breakthrough Abroad

2004 moved Gunnarsson again to Norway, new club was Stabæk IF. As with his first stay abroad he suffered in his first season relegation from the Tippeligaen. This time he stayed loyal to the club and on the side of Daniel Nannskog he made the powerful storm by the team that could accomplish the direct resurgence. Also in the first division he showed his eye for goal and was able to achieve 2006 18 league goals in the season. After he scored 15 and 12 results in the following seasons, which contributed to the 2008 for the first time winning the league title in the club's history Stabæk IF, he drew attention to himself also in southern Europe.

On 1 January 2009 Gunnarsson joined the Ligue 1 for AS Nancy. Nine days later, he made his debut for the club in the first French league when he came off the bench in the 1-2 defeat against OGC Nice in the 77th minute for the game Moncef Zerka. In the further course of the season he came only to five appearances in which he could not score a goal. After he only ran aground in the first half of the season of the 2009 /10 in the Coupe de la Ligue for the French club, he decided to re- change of club and returned in January to Norway Stabæk IF back. On 29 July 2011 he signed a contract until 2014 at Vålerenga Oslo.