Edda Garðarsdóttir (born 15 July 1979) is an Icelandic

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coach and former player who last managed

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club KR. Since her debut in 1997 she has accrued over 100

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for Iceland's national team and competed at the

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finals in Finland.

Club career

After a spell in Denmark with Vorup FB, Edda enrolled at the

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and played

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for the Richmond Spiders. From 2009 until 2012 Edda, a

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, played club football in Sweden for

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. Along with

Ólína Guðbjörg Viðarsdóttir Ólína Guðbjörg Viðarsdóttir (born 16 November 1982) is an Icelanders, Icelandic Association football, football Defender (association football), defender and a former member of the Iceland women's national football team, Icelandic national f ...

, she moved to Chelsea Ladies of the English

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in January 2013. An interview Edda gave in May 2013 revealed that club rules prevented Ladies players from talking to their male clubmates, unless the male player had initiated the conversation. In July the duo left Chelsea to sign for Valur in their homeland.

International career

When national team

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Siggi Eyjólfsson named his Iceland squad for

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in June 2013, Edda was conspicuously absent from the list.

Personal life

In June 2012 Edda's partner

gave birth to the couple's first child, a daughter.

Achievements

*Icelandic champion six times. *

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winner five times. *Swedish Cup one time.

Honours

*Player of the Year at KR in 2004. *Player of the Year in Breiðablik 2005 and 2006.

References

External links

*
KSI Profile

1979 births Living people Edda Gardarsdottir Edda Gardarsdottir Expatriate women's footballers in England Expatriate women's footballers in Sweden Edda Gardarsdottir Edda Gardarsdottir KIF Örebro DFF players Chelsea F.C. Women players Women's Super League players Damallsvenskan players FIFA Women's Century Club Lesbian sportswomen Edda Gardarsdottir Icelandic LGBTQ footballers Richmond Spiders women's soccer players Edda Gardarsdottir Women's association football midfielders Edda Gardarsdottir Edda Gardarsdottir Edda Gardarsdottir Edda Gardarsdottir Expatriate women's footballers in Denmark Edda Gardarsdottir Expatriate women's soccer players in the United States {{Iceland-women-footy-bio-stub