Atli Eðvaldsson
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Atli Eðvaldsson | ||
| Date of birth | 3 March 1957 | ||
| Place of birth | Reykjavík, Iceland | ||
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1974–1980 | Valur | 93 | (31) |
| 1980–1981 | Borussia Dortmund | 30 | (11) |
| 1981–1985 | Fortuna Düsseldorf | 122 | (38) |
| 1985–1988 | KFC Uerdingen 05 | 72 | (10) |
| 1988–1989 | TuRU Düsseldorf | 23 | (6) |
| 1989–1990 | Gençlerbirliği | 23 | (4) |
| 1990–1993 | KR Reykjavík | 48 | (16) |
| 1993 | HK Kópavogur | 11 | (1) |
| Total | 422 | (117) | |
| National team | |||
| 1974 | Iceland U19 | 2 | (0) |
| 1978 | Iceland U21 | 1 | (0) |
| 1976–1991 | Iceland | 70 | (8) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1995–1996 | ÍBV | ||
| 1997 | Fylkir | ||
| 1998–1999 | KR Reykjavík | ||
| 1999–2003 | Iceland | ||
| 2005–2006 | Þróttur Reykjavík | ||
| 2009 | Valur | ||
| 2013 | Reynir Sandgerði | ||
| 2014- | Afturelding | ||
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. | |||
Atli Eðvaldsson (born 3 March 1957) is an Icelandic former footballer who played as a midfielder. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential players to come from Iceland. After retiring he became a well-known manager.
He is the younger brother of former international player Jóhannes Eðvaldsson. His father, Evald Mikson (Icelandic: Eðvald Hinriksson), was a goalkeeper in the Estonian national football team between 1934 and 1938. Mikson was the Tallinn chief of police during the German occupation of Estonia.
Atli's daughter Sif Atladóttir is a member of the women's national football team.
Club career
Atli started at Valur and later became very successful in the German Bundesliga with Fortuna Düsseldorf and Bayer Uerdingen. On 6 June 1983, he became the first Icelandic player to score a hat-trick in the Bundesliga, when he scored five goals for Fortuna Düsseldorf against Eintracht Frankfurt. After a year in Turkey, he finished his playing career back in Iceland, where he became player-manager.
International career
He made his debut for Iceland in 1976 and went on to win 70 caps, scoring eight goals[1] and captaining the team 31 times. At the time of his retirement he was Iceland's record cap. He played his last international match in a September 1991 friendly game against Denmark.
Manager years
After his playing days ended, Atli went on to manage three Icelandic club teams before taking the helm at the national team in 1999. He lasted four years there. On 4 July 2009, Atli was appointed manager of Premier Division club Valur until the end of the season.
Roger Hollis case
Chapman Pincher alleges that Atli is the owner of certain documents that might add further weight to the case against Roger Hollis, that Hollis was a Russian spy at the head of MI-5 in the UK.[2] As Pincher, in his 90s, states "I have been unable to extract a copy of the interrogation report from Atli", p. 603. The interrogation report is alleged by Pincher to have been written by his father, Evald Mikson, who is now deceased.
References
- ↑ "Iceland - Record International Players". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 14 May 2011. Retrieved 2 April 2011.
- ↑ Pincher, Chapman (2009). Treachery: Betrayals, Blunders, and Cover-ups: Six Decades of Espionage Against America and Great Britain.
External links
- Atli Eðvaldsson at National-Football-Teams.com