Edda Garðarsdóttir (born 15 July 1979) is an Icelandic

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coach and former player who last managed Úrvalsdeild club KR. Since her debut in 1997 she has accrued over 100 caps for Iceland's national team and competed at the UEFA Women's Euro 2009 finals in Finland.

Club career

After a spell in Denmark with

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, Edda enrolled at the University of Richmond and played

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for the Richmond Spiders. From 2009 until 2012 Edda, a box-to-box

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, played club football in Sweden for

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. Along with Ólína Guðbjörg Viðarsdóttir, she moved to

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of the English

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in January 2013. An interview Edda gave in May 2013 revealed that club rules prevented Ladies players from talking to their male clubmates, unless the male player had initiated the conversation. In July the duo left Chelsea to sign for Valur in their homeland.

International career

When national team

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Siggi Eyjólfsson named his Iceland squad for UEFA Women's Euro 2013 in June 2013, Edda was conspicuously absent from the list.

Personal life

In June 2012 Edda's partner Ólína Guðbjörg Viðarsdóttir gave birth to the couple's first child, a daughter.

Achievements

*Icelandic champion six times. *

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winner five times. *Swedish Cup one time.

Honours

*Player of the Year at KR in 2004. *Player of the Year in Breiðablik 2005 and 2006.

References

External links

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KSI Profile
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