Finnur Justinussen (born 30 March 1989) is a Faroese

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who plays for

Víkingur Gøta Víkingur is a semi-professional association football, football club in the Faroe Islands. The club was founded in 2008 after the merger of GÍ Gøta and Leirvík ÍF. The club is based in Leirvík, while the Serpugerði Stadium, stadium is in No ...

and the Faroe Islands national team.

Club career

He began his career with local club GÍ Gøta. After GÍ Gøta and

Leirvík ÍF Leirvík ( da, Lervig) is a town on the Faroe Islands and was an important regional ferry harbour at the east coast of the second-largest island Eysturoy. Leirvík has a population of 1,048 (2022). It was the only town in the municipality of Lei ...

merged in 2008, he played for the newly formed club Víkingur. He scored 19 goals in the 2009 season, making him the league top goalscorer. During the 2010 season he scored 7 league goals and 3 in the Faroese Cup. In 2011, he was top scorer again, with 21 goals. Having previously been on trials with Swedish

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clubs

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and

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, Finnur trialed with

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club

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in late 2011. After impressing on trial he signed a permanent deal with the club in early 2012. In 2013, he returned to Víkingur ahead of the 2013 season. On 9 October 2015, Justinussen joined

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-side

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. Finnur was loaned out to

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from January 2018 to June 2018, and then signed permanently for the club. He left the club on 29 January 2019 by mutual termination, because the trip from Copenhagen - where he lived - to Næstved, was too time consuming. Afterwards, he joined IF Føroyar in

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. On 24 July 2019 it was announced that Justinussen had joined

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. After only three months, on 25 October, he left the club by mutual agreement.

International career

Justinussen made his U21 debut in September 2009, in a 1-1 draw with

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. He made 8 appearances in total for the U21 team, of which he played in they won two matches, two draws, and four defeats, which were all qualifying matches for the 2011 Under-21 tournament. Justinussen was involved in the wins against

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and

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, but didn't feature in the 1-0 win over

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. He was called up to the Faroe Islands national team for the first time in September 2011, for the matches against

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and

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. He was left out the matchday squad for the game against Italy, but was an unused substitute in the match verses Serbia. He made his debut for the team in August 2012 as a substitute, in a 2-0 loss to

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in Reykjavik.

References

External links

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Profile on Jönköping Södra website
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archive
{{DEFAULTSORT:Justinussen, Finnur 1989 births Living people Footballers from Tórshavn Faroese men's footballers Faroese expatriate men's footballers Faroe Islands men's international footballers Jönköpings Södra IF players Gøtu Ítróttarfelag players Víkingur Gøta players Fremad Amager players Næstved Boldklub players FC Roskilde players Superettan players Danish 1st Division players Danish 2nd Division players Faroese expatriate sportspeople in Sweden Expatriate men's footballers in Sweden Men's association football forwards