Hólmar Örn Eyjólfsson

Eyjólfsson (March 2010) in the U-21 match against Germany

Hólmar Örn Eyjólfsson ( born August 6, 1990 in Saudarkrokur ) is an Icelandic football player. The youth international has been available since June 27, 2011 at VfL Bochum in the German 2nd Bundesliga under contract and is the son of longtime Bundesliga professionals and international's Eyjólfur Sverrisson.

Youth

Eyjólfsson was born in Saudarkrokur and moved at the age of seven years with his family to Kopavogur and he remained until just before his 18th birthday there. In Kopavogur he began seriously to play football. His first club was FC Tindastóll.

Club career

Eyjólfsson was in the 2007 season, 16 -year-old made ​​his debut for HK Kópavogs in Landsbankadeild, the highest Icelandic league. After a total of 19 missions changed the center-back, which was used already in the defensive midfield, in the summer of 2008, finally to the English Premier League club West Ham United and signed a long term contract. In October 2009, he was loaned for one month to the fourth division Cheltenham Town and it came to his competitive debut in English football.

Even after his return from Cheltenham came Eyjólfsson not have inserts for the reserve team out, and was therefore awarded again in January 2010. For half a year he should get some match practice in the Belgian first division side KSV Roeselare relegation, however, there came also only eight missions.

In June 2011 he signed a contract until 2014 with VfL Bochum. His first game made ​​Eyjólfsson 4 December 2011 (17th Round ), when he appeared as a substitute in a 6-0 home win against FC Erzgebirge Aue in the 82nd minute for Marcel Maltritz.

National

In 2007 he qualified as a surprise with the U-17 team for the finals of the U-17 European Championship after prevailed in the second qualifying round, among others, against the newcomers from Portugal and Russia. Eyjólfsson completed the final tournament all three games on the unfamiliar position for him as a defensive midfielder over the full season, the dotless resignation but could not prevent. He then belonged to the Icelandic U-19 national team, in 2008 by a 1-2 defeat against the Bulgarian team as group runners missed the finals appearance until the last game of the second qualifying round of the U-19 European Championship. Shortly after the U-17 European Championships he made his debut in November 2007, also at age 17 in the U -21 from Iceland and heard there since become permanent staff.