Egil á Bø

Egil á Bø (2010)

Egil á Bø ( born April 2, 1974 as Egil Zachariassen ) is a Faroese football player and plays for EB / Streymur. Previously, he ran for the Faroese national team.

Association

Egil á Bø began his career as a defender at rechtsfüßiger ÍF Streymur. His first competitive match he graduated in the second round of the cup in the 1-2 defeat against TB Tvøroyri. In the second division, he played in the course of 17 of 18 games, his first of three goals he scored on the second match in a 1-0 away win against SÍ Sørvágur. The season was completed on the last place, thus stood on goal difference club's relegation to the third tier. After the merger of the association with EB Eiði he played from 1993 to the thus newly formed club EB / Streymur again in the second division and was also there to the regular players. At season's end could be achieved as the runner promotion to the first division.

After his first season in the top flight Á Bø moved in 1995 to league rivals NSÍ Runavík. With the new club, the season was completed on the last place, which is why a year later a renewed change of club decency and Á Bø then ran aground three years ÍF Fuglafjørður. From 1999 he played for B36 Tórshavn. There he could win the cup 1-0 KÍ Klaksvík 2001 initially, later succeeded with the championship even the Double. Here he played among others with Jákup á Borg, Jens Kristian Hansen, Hedin á Lakjuni, John Petersen and Pól Thorsteinsson in a team. Except for a brief return to EB / Streymur in 2003 for one season he stayed with B36 until 2004. Á Bø 2005, however, finally returned to his original club.

As captain of EB / Streymur he could celebrate his next Cup success in 2007. The following year he repeated this success and also brought again to the championship the Double. His teammates this year were among other Arnbjørn Theodor Hansen and K. Thomassen Mikkjal. In the summer of 2009, he resigned after differences with coach Sigfríður S. Clementsen back momentarily lost and missed the cup final on 29 July against Víkingur Gøta. Reason was that Á Bø had announced that it would no longer play after the season, after which the coach more often left him on the bench and younger players einbaute in the team. After a coaching change, he returned to the team, however, considered in the fall yet, if he finishes his career. His team had finished the season after a poor start with 22 points from their last nine games still in league runner-up. In 2010, the cup be won again with a 1-0 victory against ÍF Fuglafjørður what constituted the third triumph in this competition in four years. The following year, HB Tórshavn was defeated as the reigning champion of the Faroese in the match for the Supercup 2-0, also succeeded in the cup final against ÍF Fuglafjørður new edition of the new win. 2012 could be repeated with a 2-1 win over last year's champion B36 Tórshavn, the success in the Supercup, also succeeded on the side of Jónhard Frederiksberg and Arnbjørn Theodor Hansen, the renewed victory in the championship, while the cup final was lost in a penalty shoot-out against Víkingur Gøta, Á Bø was sitting here on the substitutes' bench. 2013 there was a new edition of the finale, which was again lost with 0:2.

European Cup

17 times entered Á Bø been to games in European competition to, this he achieved a goal. The first game he completed 1999/2000 for B36 Tórshavn in the UEFA Cup against MKE Ankaragucu when he came on in the 80th minute for Øssur Hansen. The game ended in a 0-1 away defeat. The return match was without the participation Á BOS also lost 0-1, which B36 was eliminated.

National

Á BOS National team career started late - he was already 34 years and 5 months old when he was called into the squad for the first time in August 2008. He made his debut in central defense - as well as goalkeeper René Tórgarð, Leif Niclasen at left-back and midfielder Andreas Lava Olsen and Bogi Løkin - 20 August 2008 in the 0-5 defeat in a friendly against Portugal in Aveiro. He is therefore also for the Faroese national team of the oldest debutant at all. His only goal for the national team, he scored on 14 October 2009 in Piatra Neamţ in the World Cup qualifiers in the 1-3 defeat against Romania, Á Bø met here to 1:2. The end of 2010 he gave after 14 games his retirement from international football known. His last game he played on 8 October 2010 in the 1:5 defeat in European Championship qualifier against Slovenia in Ljubljana. With an age of 36 years and 6 months, he was the oldest outfield player used and also with an age of 35 years and 6 months, the oldest scorer in the history of the Faroese National Team.

Achievements

• 3 × Faroese champions: 2001, 2008, 2012
• 5 × Faroese Cup Winners: 2001, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011
• 2 × Faroese Supercup Winner: 2011, 2012

Arbitrator

2011 led Á Bø on the opening day of the second division of the ladies with the encounter between EB / Streymur and game association of B68 Toftir and NSÍ Runavík a game as a referee.