Aðalsteinn Aðalsteinsson (born 25 April 1962) is an Icelandic retired

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. He played as a midfielder, and later became a football manager. He coached teams that won over 40 titles in major official tournaments in Iceland.

Career

Player

He twice won the biggest trophy in Iceland, the Icelandic Championship, with his mother club Vikingur from Reykjavik, in 1981 and 1982. He won two trophys as Champions of Champions in 1982 and 1983. He was awarded best player in Iceland by the newspaper ''Morgunblaðið'' in 1990. The same year he was awarded best player in Víkingur FC by the club. In the covid period 2022 he was selected by Vikingur fans to be in the best starting line up of 11 players since 1908 against the Vikingur line up team 2022. He is still as one of top ten capped players in top league for Vikingur Reykjavik.

International career

Aðalsteinn made his debut for

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in an August 1982

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away against the

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and earned a total of 4 caps, scoring no goals. All his international matches were against the Faroese, the first three unofficial; his fourth and final international was an August 1990 friendly against them. He was selected in the first U21 Iceland national team that participated in the Euro. The games were against Holland and Spain. Aðalsteinn played 6 games in Europa Cup against Real Sociedad, Bordeaux and Raba Eto. He played two games in the Champions League against CSKA Moscow.

Coach

He was elected coach of the year in 1992 in Vikingur as a youth coach and got the same award for Fylkir football club in 2008 which he coached at for ten years. Aðalsteinn was nominated coach of the year by the youth coaching Federation in Iceland in 2004 for his passion and huge work load for 25 years of coaching youth teams. In 2016 he got a Uefa A coaching license and in 2022 he got a UEFA A youth elite coaching license. He coached Fram first team as assistant manager from 2020 to 2023. Fram won the first division in 2021 without losing a single game, setting a record of points in first division. He got a Gold medal of honour from the Icelandic Football Association in 2023 for his work and efforts for the football in Iceland. In 2019 he coached at the same time Ulfarnir, a sub-team of Fram in Iceland's lowest division. The team reached 32 finals and beat first division team Vikingur from Ólafsvík, away by 2-6 victory. He got an award from Fram football club in 2023 after coaching at Fram for 14 years.

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