Sigurður Ragnar Eyjólfsson

Sigurdur Ragnar Eyjólfsson (born 1 December 1973) is an Icelandic football coach and former football player. He has been training since 2007, the Icelandic national team of women.

Eyjólfsson began his career in the youth of KR Reykjavík. In 1994, he was with this club Icelandic Cup Winner. A year later he went to the USA to study at the University of North Carolina Sports Science. In 1998 he returned to Iceland and played for ÍA Akranes before it a year later moved to the English club Walsall. With this club he rose to the second English league, where he contributed one goal in a crucial 3-1 victory over Oldham Athletic. After a stint with Chester City, he moved to Belgium to KRC Harelbeke before he returned to KR Reykjavik in Iceland and was twice Icelandic champion. His active career, he ended 2005 IA Akranes.

Since 2002 Eyjólfsson worked as technical director for the Icelandic Football Association. In January 2007, he became the Icelandic women's national team and led them to the 2009 European Championship in Finland. After the EM 2013 in Iceland reached the quarter-finals, he gave up his post to a new challenge to accept.

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