Fanndís Friðriksdóttir

This is an Icelandic name. The last name is a patronymic, not a family name; this person is properly referred to by the given name Fanndís.
Fanndís Friðriksdóttir
Personal information
Full name Fanndís Friðriksdóttir
Date of birth (1990-05-09) 9 May 1990
Place of birth Iceland
Playing position Midfielder
Club information
Current team
 Kolbotn
Number 10
Youth career
-2004 ÍBV
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2005–2012 Breiðablik 107 (50)
2013– Kolbotn 10 (4)
National team‡
2005–2007 Iceland U-17 12 (1)
2006–2009 Iceland U-19 20 (11)
2009– Iceland 41 (2)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 10 July 2013.

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 13:14, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Fanndís Friðriksdóttir (born 9 May 1990) is an Icelandic football player who plays as a midfielder. Fanndís is currently part of the Iceland women's national team and competed in the 2009 and 2013 editions of the UEFA Women's Championship. Fanndís comes from Vestmannaeyjar but has mostly played in Kópavogur for Breiðablik. Fanndís scored her 1st goal for the Icelandic national team in a 1–0 win over China at the 2012 Algarve Cup. Fanndís scored her 2nd goal for the Icelandic national team in a 2-0 win over Northern Ireland in European qualifying for EM in Sweden 2013. Fanndís scored her 3rd goal for the Icelandic national team in a 1-0 win over China at the 2014 Algarve Cup. Before the 2013 season Fanndís transferred to Kolbotn in Norway.[1]

International career

Fanndís made her senior international debut for Iceland in a 2–0 defeat by Denmark at the 2009 Algarve Cup.

At UEFA Women's Euro 2009, Fanndís made two brief substitute appearances as Iceland were eliminated in the first round.[2] Four years later, national team coach Siggi Eyjólfsson selected Fanndís in the Iceland squad for UEFA Women's Euro 2013.[3]

Personal life

Fanndís's father is former Iceland men's national football team goalkeeper Friðrik Friðriksson and her mother is former Olympic alpine skier Nanna Leifsdóttir.[4]

Honours

References

  1. ↑ http://www.433.is/frettir/island/fanndis-fridriksdottir-til-kolbotn/
  2. ↑ "Fanndís Fridriksdóttir". uefa.com. UEFA. Retrieved 4 December 2013.
  3. ↑ Stefánsson, Stefán (24 June 2013). "Familiar squad for Iceland". uefa.com. UEFA. Retrieved 22 September 2013.
  4. ↑ Hilmarsson, Eftir Guðmund (21 August 2009). "Ævintýri líkast". MBL.is (in Icelandic). Morgunblaðið. Retrieved 4 December 2013.
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