Jógvan Martin Olsen

Jógvan Martin Olsen ( 2010)

Jógvan Martin Olsen ( born July 30, 1961) is a former Faroese football player and coach since 2014 of B68 Toftir.

• 4.1 As a player
• 4.2 As a coach

Clubs

Olsen began his career in 1978 at B68 Toftir in the second division. In 1981, he resigned after the first climb achieved in the first division. Overall, Olsen played 16 years in Toftir. During this time he won three league titles ( 1984, 1985, 1992). The last title Øssur Hansen and Abraham Løkin among his teammates. In 1994 he moved to LIF Leirvík to the second division, before he returned in 1996 to B68 Toftir and four games for the second team played in two years.

European Cup

His only two European games completed Olsen 1993/94 for B68 Toftir in the preliminary round of the Champions League against Croatia Zagreb. In the first leg, which was lost 0-5, he came in the 61st minute for Jákup Djurhuus the square. The return match played Olsen from the beginning, this ended 0:6.

National

International Olsen also played for the national team of the Faroe Islands, but this happened before the FIFA membership in 1988, so these matches are to be regarded as unofficial.

Coach

Already in his active career began Olsen as manager from 1994 to 1998, he was responsible for the Faroese U17 selection. In addition, he acted for some games as a coach for LIF Leirvík and B68 Toftir. From 1996 he also took advantage of the Office of the Assistant Coach of the Faroese national team, from 1998 care of Olsen as head coach instead of the U -17 Faroese U-19 selection. In 2002 he returned to the club football and coached for two years the NSÍ Runavík. Here he won in his first year in office, the Faroese Cup with a 2-1 against HB Tórshavn, he also was selected coach of the year.

In October 2005, Olsen was named as the successor to Henrik Larsen as the new head coach of the Faroese national team as assistant coach him John Petersen was set aside. In January 2008 Jens Martin Knudsen took the place of Petersen as the new assistant coach. On 29 September 2008 Olsen announced his resignation from that post after the next two World Cup qualifiers, until then he had all of 18 matches lost.

From 2009 he trained the first division Víkingur Gøta. In his first season he was the Faroese Cup Winners' Cup with the team by a 3-2 win over EB / Streymur. 2012 was the success in penalty shoot-out against the same opponent be repeated. A year later, Olsen was released lying after matchday 15 and the 2:4 home defeat against HB Tórshavn in eighth place. The end of 2014, he signed a contract with aufgestiegenem in the first league B68 Toftir.

Achievements

As a player

• 3 × Faroese champions: 1984, 1985, 1992

As a coach

• 3 × Faroese Cup Winners: 2002, 2009, 2012
• 1 × Coach of the Year: 2002