Jón Pauli Olsen (born 17 August 1968) is a former

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for the

Faroe Islands women's national football team The Faroe Islands women's national football team represents the Faroe Islands in women's association football and is controlled by the Faroe Islands Football Association (FSF), the governing body of all football in the Faroe Islands. The FSF be ...

. He was also

for the Faroe Islands Women's U17 national team. Olsen is also a former football player, he mostly played as a forward, but sometimes he played as a

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and sometimes as a defender. He is married to Sirið Stenberg, who is member of the Faroese parliament ( Løgting).

Career

Manager for national teams

Born in

Vágur Vágur meaning ''Bay'' ( da, Våg) is a town on the island of Suðuroy, part of the Faroe Islands It is situated on the east coast of the island on the Vágsfjørður fjord, and was founded in the fourteenth century. Expansion has meant that the ...

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, Jón Pauli Olsen is currently the manager for the

, he started as their head coach in September 2012. The team played a friendly match against

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on 28 November 2012. They won 6–0. In the match against Luxembourg two of the players sat a

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. For the first time a combination of parent-offspring played at the same time in a match for their country. The mother and daughter Bára Skaale Klakstein and Eyðvør Klakkstein played together from the 61st minute, when Eyðvør Klakkstein was substituted and then they played together for the rest of the match, which was half an hour. Olsen is also manager for the girls U17 national team of the Faroe Islands from April 2012

Manager for clubs

Olsen was manager of

FC Suðuroy FC Suðuroy is a Faroese football club which was founded in January 2010 and consists currently of the former clubs VB (founded in 1905) and Sumba (founded in 1949), which merged in 2005 to form VB/Sumba. FC Suðuroy's first team in the men's ch ...

's best team in 2010 when they played in the best division. They ended as number nine and got relegated. Before 2010 the club was called VB/Sumba, Olsen was manager for VB/Sumba's first team, which played in 1. deild (the second best division) that year. They won 1. division in 2009. Olsen was also the manager for VB/Sumba in 2008. Jón Pauli Olsen started early with his career as a manager, he was only 19 years old, when he was assisting manager for one of the boy's teams of VB Vágur. In 2005 Jón Pauli Olsen was manager for a merged boys team from the island Suðuroy, it was called VB/ TB (from

and

Tvøroyri Tvøroyri is a village on the north side of the Trongisvágsfjørður on the east coast of Suðuroy island in the Faroe Islands. Together with Froðba, Trongisvágur, Líðin and Øravík it forms Tvøroyri Municipality. The village is considered ...

), Olsen was manager together with Milan Cimburovic. The result was very good, they won gold. The year after Olsen was manager again for the same team and they won gold for the second time and the cup final.

Club career as player

Jón Pauli Olsen has played football with Faroese and Danish football clubs. He started his career in his home town

playing with VB Vágur, which he played with until he moved to

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to study. In Denmark Olsen played football with Danish football clubs: KB from Copenhagen, B93 from Østerbro in Copenhagen and IF Føroyar (Ítróttarfelagið Føroyar), which is a Danish sports club in Amager founded in 1939 by Faroese ex-patriate football players living in

One of the most Scoring Players for VB Vágur and VB/Sumba

Jón Pauli Olsen is one of the top scorers for VB Vágur and VB/Sumba. * Jón Krosslá Poulsen has scored 59 goals until now (23 September 2010) * Egill Steintórsson has scored 55 goals * Jan Allan Müller has scored 53 goalsSudurras1.com
/ref> * Birgir Jørgensen has scored 53 goals * Jón Pauli Olsen has scored 52 goals *

Pól Thorsteinsson Pól Thorsteinsson (born 17 November 1973 in Vágur, Suðuroy) is a retired Faroese football player. He has been spent most of his career in the Faroe Islands, while he had brief stints in Iceland and Denmark. At the end of his career Pól Thor ...

has scored 50 goals * Dan Djurhuus has scored 42 goals.Sportal.fo
/ref>

References

External links

FCSuduroy.fo

Jón Pauli Olsen's football career in the Faroe Islands, profile on FaroeSoccer.com

Jón Pauli Olsen's career as a football coach in the Faroe Islands since 2008, on FaroeSoccer.com (the statistics does not include his career as manager for the girl's U17 national team)

Kringvarp.fo
(Faroese)
B68.fo
(Faroese) About transfers 2007 and 2008.

(Faroese) Venjarafelag Føroya - Faroe Islands Football Managers Association. {{DEFAULTSORT:Olsen, Jon Pauli 1968 births Living people Faroese men's footballers Faroese football managers Expatriate men's footballers in Denmark Vágs Bóltfelag players Kjøbenhavns Boldklub players FC Suðuroy players People from Vágur Men's association football forwards Women's association football managers