Helgi DanÃelsson
Daníelsson in training with AIK, August 2010
Helgi Valur Daníelsson (born 13 July 1981 in Uppsala, Sweden) is an Icelandic football player. The central midfielder, who was active in the course of his career outside of Iceland in England, Germany and Sweden, made his debut in 2001 for the Icelandic national team.
Career
Beginnings in Iceland and England
Daníelsson started his professional career in 1998 with a commitment to Fylkir Reykjavík in the second Icelandic league. In the same year, the English Football League club Peterborough United was aware of him, who hired the 17 -year-old, who was denied a total of 71 games in League One for the club. Meanwhile Daníelsson but was given back to his now ascended into the Landsbankadeild original club and completed for Fylkir 16 games, where he was with the team runner-up.
Meanwhile become the Icelandic national team, Daníelsson moved back to Iceland in 2003, where he played for Fylkir again until 2005.
Daníelsson in Sweden and Germany
In 2006 he finally moved to Sweden, where he joined the Allsvenskan participants Östers IF joined and in the season of 2006 a total of 20 games completed, but in the Superettan second highest league in Sweden descent. After 28 appearances for Östers IF in the 2007 Superettan season Daníelsson then moved within Sweden for IF Elfsborg, for he 2008 and 2009, a total of 50 games completed in the seasons, which he also drew the interest of the German second division club Hansa Rostock on itself. However, a desirable change in the summer of 2009 failed initially until it still transfers to the Icelander came in the 2009/10 season shortly after the winter break to Rostock, where with Gardar Johannsson also a second Icelander was committed. This Hansa paid for Danielsson a transfer fee in the amount of € 350,000 and an additional training compensation in the amount of 18,000 euros at Elfsborg. Despite these new entries rose Rostock end of the season from the 3rd league, which Danielsson's involvement in Rostock ended after only six months.
In the summer of 2010 under Daníelsson then wrote a contract for three and a half years at the Swedish tradition AIK, which obliged him in a relegation battle and Robert Åhman - Persson, Goran Ljubojević and Admir Ćatović as new forces. By the end of the season by coach Alex Miller on several different positions used, he helped as a regular player for the league. As a regular player, he went on to work under Miller's successor Andreas Alm instrumental in the revival of the club, the 2011 runner-up behind Helsingborgs IF was in the season. In the following season, he had to temporarily pause due to injury, then he was back regulars. In the summer of 2013 he left the club for half a year before the expiry of the contract and joined the four-time Portuguese champions Belenenses Lisbon.