Willum Þór Willumsson (born 23 October 1998) is an Icelandic professional

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 le ...

who plays as a

midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

for

Eredivisie The Eredivisie (; ''"Honour Division"'' or ''"Premier Division"'') is the highest level of professional football in the Netherlands. The league was founded in 1956, two years after the start of professional football in the Netherlands. It is c ...

club

Go Ahead Eagles Go Ahead Eagles () are a Dutch professional football club from the city of Deventer. They play in the Eredivisie, the top tier of Dutch football, having achieved promotion from the second tier Eerste Divisie in the 2020-21 season. The club's h ...

and the Iceland national team.

Club career

Willum signed with

BATE Borisov FC BATE Borisov (russian: link=no, ФК БАТЭ Борисов, ''FK BATE Borisov'' ; be, ФК БАТЭ Барысаў, ''BATE Barysaw,'' ) is a professional Belarusian football team from the city of Barysaw. The club competes in the Belarusi ...

in February 2019. In February 2022, he signed a six-month extension with the club.

International career

Willum made his debut for the Iceland national team on 15 January 2019 in a friendly against

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...

, coming on as a 69th-minute substitute for Jón Dagur Þorsteinsson.

Career statistics

Personal life

Willum is the son of

Willum Þór Þórsson Willum Þór Þórsson (born 17 March 1963) is a former football player and manager and politician. From 2013 to 2016, he served on the Althing, the Icelandic parliament, for the Progressive Party, and is currently a member of parliament since ...

, a former football player and manager, current member of the

Icelandic parliament The Alþingi (''general meeting'' in Icelandic, , anglicised as ' or ') is the supreme national parliament of Iceland. It is one of the oldest surviving parliaments in the world. The Althing was founded in 930 at ("thing fields" or "assembl ...

and

Minister of Health A health minister is the member of a country's government typically responsible for protecting and promoting public health and providing welfare and other social security services. Some governments have separate ministers for mental health. Coun ...

since 2021. He is the brother of fellow footballer

Brynjólfur Willumsson Brynjólfur Andersen Willumsson (born Brynjólfur Darri Willumsson; 12 August 2000) is an Icelandic football striker who plays for Kristiansund BK. Club career Coming through the youth ranks of Breiðablik, he played three seasons for the seni ...

, who plays for

Kristiansund Kristiansund (, ; historically spelled Christianssund and earlier named Fosna) is a municipality on the western coast of Norway in the Nordmøre district of Møre og Romsdal county. The administrative center of the municipality is the town of ...

Honours

Individual *

Team of the Month: November 2023,

References

External links

* * Willumsson, Willum Thor Willumsson, Willum Thor Icelandic men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Iceland men's international footballers Iceland men's under-21 international footballers Iceland men's youth international footballers Úrvalsdeild karla (football) players Belarusian Premier League players Eredivisie players Breiðablik men's football players Willumsson, Willum Thor Willumsson, Willum Thor Icelandic expatriate men's footballers Willumsson, Willum Thor Icelandic expatriate sportspeople in Belarus Willumsson, Willum Thor Icelandic expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands {{Iceland-footy-bio-stub