Páll Klettskarð (born 17 May 1990) is Faroese

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who plays as a striker for KÍ and the Faroe Islands national team.

International career

He was called up to the

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squad in February 2013 for a training camp held in Thailand and came on as a substitute in a friendly match against the Thailand U23 team. He made his official debut for the Faroe Islands in a World Cup qualifier against

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on 7 June 2013. In March 2023, Klettskarð was called up to the national team for the

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match against

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and the friendly against

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, his first national team call up since 2018.

Honours

Individual *

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Best Young Player: 2012 *

Topscorer: 2012 ''(along with Clayton Soares)'', 2024 *

Best Forward: 2013

Family

His mother is

Óluva Klettskarð Óluva Elin Klettskarð (born 24 June 1965) is a Faroese schoolteacher and politician. She was a member of the Løgting from 2015 to 2019. Early life and career Klettskarð was in Klaksvík on 24 June 1965, the daughter of Páll Klettskarð from ...

, who was a member of the Faroese parliament from 2011 to 2019 representing

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Controversy

Páll Klettskarð sometimes participates in activities which are normal in the Faroe Islands, i.e. sheep herding and pilot whaling. In July 2016 the Faroese news portal Norðlýsið added photos showing Klettskarð and another football player of KÍ Klaksvík participating in the harvesting of a pod of pilot whales in the bay of

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. The organisation

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used the information and photos in their campaign in order to end the around 1000 year old whaling tradition in the Faroe Islands, Klettskarð received a lot of Facebook-messages after the incident from people who were upset about the news.

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Klettskard, Pall 1990 births Living people Faroese men's footballers Men's association football forwards Víkingur Gøta players Klaksvíkar Ítróttarfelag players Faroe Islands men's international footballers Faroe Islands men's youth international footballers 21st-century Danish sportsmen