Sigurlás Þorleifsson ( – 24 April 2018) was an Icelandic

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby ...

. He was part of the

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between 1979 and 1982. He played 10 matches, scoring 2 goals. With

Knattspyrnufélagið Víkingur Knattspyrnufélagið Víkingur, commonly referred to as Víkingur or Víkingur Reykjavík (to distinguish them from Víkingur Ólafsvík) and internationally known as Vikingur F.C., is an Icelandic sports club based in the Fossvogur neighbourho ...

he was topscorer of the 1979 Úrvalsdeild with twelve goals. Later with his club

Íþróttabandalag Vestmannaeyja Íþróttabandalag Vestmannaeyja (ÍBV) is an Icelandic multi-sports district association from Vestmannaeyjar Vestmannaeyjar (, sometimes anglicized as Westman Islands) is a municipality and archipelago off the south coast of Iceland. The la ...

he was again topscorer af the 1981 Úrvalsdeild (12 goals) and

1982 Úrvalsdeild Statistics of Úrvalsdeild in the 1982 season. Overview It was contested by 10 teams, and Víkingur won the championship. Víkingur's Heimir Karlsson and ÍBV's Sigurlás Þorleifsson were the joint top scorers with 10 goals. League standin ...

(10 goals). With Íþróttabandalag Vestmannaeyja he also competed in the

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, scoring 1 goal against

Baník Ostrava ''Baník'' is a Slovak word meaning "miner". Since the 1950s it has been part of the name of various sports clubs in Czechoslovakia associated mostly with coal mining regions. In Poland, the same practice was conducted with the name ''górnik''. ...

Death

Sigurlás collapsed while on a hike with friends on Heimaklettur in

Heimaey Heimaey (), is an Icelandic island. At , it is the largest island in the Vestmannaeyjar archipelago, and the largest and most populated island off the Icelandic coast. Heimaey is off the south coast of Iceland. It is the only populated isl ...

on 24 April 2018. Resuscitations were unsuccessful and he was pronounced dead at

Vestmannaeyjar Vestmannaeyjar (, sometimes anglicized as Westman Islands) is a municipality and archipelago off the south coast of Iceland. The largest island, Heimaey, has a population of 4,414, most of whom live in the archipelago's main town, Vestmannaeyj ...

hospital later that day.

Death

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