Heimir Hallgrímsson (born 10 June 1967) is an Icelandic former

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player, dentist, and current manager of the

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Career

As a player Heimir started playing for ÍBV from his local town

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. He played with them until 1996 except for the 1993 season in which he played for Höttur while managing their women's team. From 1996 until 2007 he played lower league football with another club from

, from 1996 to 1997 he played with Smástund and from 1998 with KFS, the merged team of Smástund and another lower league team from Vestmannaeyjar called Framherjar. From 2002 to 2007 his appearances were sporadic. Throughout his playing career, he also served as the

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for his home village, and even after taking sole reign over the Icelandic national team after Euro 2016 continues to practice part-time. In the summer of 2016, he cared for a player who had a tooth knocked out at a local women's game he was attending, going on the pitch while the player was knocked unconscious and putting the tooth back in place, and then personally making the necessary tooth repair at a nearby dental office.

Coaching career

Club

In 1993, while playing with the men's senior team of Höttur, he coached their women's team, helping the team come first in the second tier and achieve promotion. Alongside working as a dentist in Vestmannaeyjar he started coaching the town's women's senior team, ÍBV, guiding them towards the top of the Icelandic women's Premier league, gaining places in the table each year. In 2002, he was hired as assistant coach for the men's team of ÍBV, being their coach for the last games of the season after the coach was fired. In 2003, he again took over the women's team, guiding them to two 2nd-place finishes in the league and two cup finals, with ÍBV winning the second one in 2004. He then didn't coached any club in 2005 but again took over as the coach for the ÍBV men team mid-season in

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, coached the team in the last 6 matches but failing to prevent relegation. He remained this time as coach and got promoted with the team in the 2008 season, finishing 10th out of 12 in the top division in

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before managing two 3rd-place finishes in a row in

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and

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Iceland

On 14 October 2011, KSÍ announced they had appointed Heimir as assistant coach of the

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alongside

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as coach. Iceland qualified for the play-off stage of the

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, however, Iceland lost there against

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. Shortly thereafter Heimir and Lagerbäck signed a new contract, this time as joint coaches. Heimir became the sole coach following Euro 2016, with Lagerbäck becoming coach of Norway. Heimir resigned as coach of the team on 17 July 2018 after the team's failure to progress beyond the group stage

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, which was the team's maiden World Cup campaign.

Al-Arabi

On 10 December 2018 Heimir was hired as Head Coach for the Qatar Stars League club Al-Arabi. His contract was for 2 1/2 years or until summer of 2021.

Jamaica

In September 2022, the

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announced Hallgrímsson as the new coach of the Jamaican national team.

References

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