She burst on to the international scene in September 2020, scoring twice in her first match for Iceland and has the quality to attack with speed and power, enabling her to breach opponents defences and break into the penalty area. Gained vital Champions League experience against teams such as Paris Saint-Germain and Real Madrid in the 2021-22 Champions League with Breidablik. For the third year in a row, Visa, the presenting sponsor of theSheBelievesCup, will award the MVP trophy to the most outstanding player of the tournament. This will be the USAs 11th match at the home of Major League Soccers FC Dallas. GOALKEEPERS (3): Aubrey Kingsbury (Washington Spirit; 0), Casey Murphy (North Carolina Courage; 3), Alyssa Naeher (Chicago Red Stars; 79), DEFENDERS (7): Alana Cook (OL Reign; 6/0), Tierna Davidson (Chicago Red Stars; 47/1), Emily Fox (Racing Louisville FC; 10/0), Sofia Huerta (OL Reign; 10/0), Kelley OHara (Washington Spirit; 149/2), Emily Sonnett (Washington Spirit; 64/0), Becky Sauerbrunn (Portland Thorns FC; 201/0), MIDFIELDERS (7): Morgan Gautrat (Chicago Red Stars; 88/8), Jaelin Howell (Racing Louisville FC; 3/0) Rose Lavelle (OL Reign; 69/18), Catarina Macario (Olympique Lyonnais, FRA; 14/3), Kristie Mewis (NJ/NY Gotham FC; 35/4), Ashley Sanchez (Washington Spirit; 4/0), Andi Sullivan (Washington Spirit; 24/2), FORWARDS (6): Ashley Hatch (Washington Spirit; 5/3), Mallory Pugh (Chicago Red Stars; 69/19), Margaret Purce (NJ/NY Gotham FC; 11/2), Trinity Rodman (Washington Spirit; 2/0), Sophia Smith (Portland Thorns FC; 12/1), Lynn Williams (Kansas City Current; 46/14). Natasha Anasi's soccer dream led her from Arlington to Europe, and now back to Texas with Iceland Anasi, an Arlington Martin graduate, will play against the U.S. Women's National Team. This summer, Iceland will be playing in the UEFA Womens Euros for the fourth time and fourth in a row. Learn more about how Statista can support your business. Premier League top-four race: does fifth place qualify if Manchester City win the Champions League. If you are an admin, please authenticate by logging in again. Date:February 23, 2022 We will start our preparation on June 20th but we have not discussed our aims for the Euros. Iceland has a big year coming up, starting with the SheBelieves Cup, World Cup qualifiers in April, the UEFA Womens Euro this summer in England and more World Cup qualifiers in September. A new cycle is underway with less than five months until the start of qualifying for the 2023 FIFA Womens World Cup, which will be co-hosted in Australia and New Zealand beginning in July of 2023. The teams enforcer, she loves to throw herself into tackles in midfield or attempt blocks in her own penalty area. 1 overall, tying the mark for most by a school. One example of a project funded by the WFDP programme in Iceland is, Full-time youth national team coaches (201720). The Iceland women's national football team has been known or nicknamed as the "Stelpurnar okkar (Our Girls)". Hit out at the Euro 2022 organisers earlier this year over the use of Manchester Citys Academy Stadium as one of the tournament venues: I dont know whats going on in their heads or if theyre even following womens football., A huge talent, Jhannsdttir grew up playing for her local team Haukar in Hafnarfjrur and was often compared to Sara Bjrk Gunnarsdttir when she was young. Official Kickoff Time:8:08 p.m. CT / 9:08 p.m. Visit FOXSports.com to view the Iceland Women roster & lineup for the current soccer season. Until now, our focus has been on qualifying for the World Cup, so, as a team, we have not yet set our sights on what we want to achieve in England, Halldrsson said when he announced his squad on 11 June. Norway continued to achieve reasonable results, except for the Algarve Cup, where results began to slip. Born in Dsseldorf in 1985 while her father, Atli Edvaldsson, was playing professional football in the city at the time. Iceland - Iceland - Results, fixtures, squad, statistics, photos Aged just 20 but won the Frauen Bundesliga in 2021, six months after joining Bayern Munich. Iceland advanced to the quarterfinals in 2013 where it lost to host Sweden, 4-0, but failed to get out of the group in 2009 in Finland and 2017 in the Netherlands. They qualified for this year's edition of the tournament by finishing as one of the best runners-up during the qualification process. Thorsteinn Halldrsson took over as Icelands coach after successfully coaching Breidabliks womens team for the previous five years. She has never looked back. It is always difficult to deal with such adversity, which you have little or no control over, but hopefully I wont have to experience anything like it again. When she signed for Brann at the start of last season, her then coach, Alexander Straus, described her as a player with a lot of speed, power and ability to break through opposing defences. Vanda Sigurgeirsdttir with Iceland's entry to the Trailblazers exhibition at UEFA HQ in Nyon, Switzerland. The last five meetings between the teams all took place at the Algarve Cup in Portugal, with the USA going 4-0-1 over those last five meetings and outscoring Iceland by an overall margin of 10-2. We have arrived in England. Atladttir followed in his footsteps by joining a German club, Saarbrcken, in 2010, but moved to Sweden a year later. Results and fixtures The following is a list of match results in the last 12 months, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled. Has a very powerful throw-in. I will not go so far as to say that I am grateful for what I experienced in France, she told Morgunbladid, but I came out of the experience as a stronger individual and a better player in my opinion. Averaging 25.40 years, this is the youngest starting lineup the USA has used this tournament and is the youngest XI ever to start for the USA at the SheBelieves Cup, surpassing the mark previously set in 2018 when the starting lineup vs. France averaged 25.48 years. The newly dubbed 2021 Concacaf W Championship began for all teams -- except the USA and Canada -- during this February FIFA window and serves as the preliminary round the World Cup and Olympic qualifiers. The statistic shows the average women's professional sports player salary by league in 2017/18. The USA won the inaugural edition, France took top honors in 2017, the USA won again in 2018, England finished first in 2019 and the USA returned to the top of the podium in both 2020 and 2021. The 5-10, 175-pound Downs played three seasons for the Tar Heels, surpassing 1,000 receiving yards in each of the last two seasons. If I have to give good advice to young football girls, I would say that the most important thing is to attend all training sessions. In November she gave birth to a baby son but was back on the pitch in April. Founded 1947 Address Laugardal 104 Reykjavk Country Iceland Phone +354 510 2900 Fax +354 568 9793 E-mail [email protected] Photograph: Oliver Hardt/Uefa/Getty Images, Womens Euro 2022: Guardian Experts Network, Womens Euro 2022 team guide No 15: Iceland. Last update : 4/27/23, 1:05 AM. A victory over Iceland would give the USA a fifth title in the seven-year history of the tournament. Captain Caroline Seger is included for her 13th major tournament, having earned 230 caps for the national team. [2] They are currently ranked as the 17th best women's national team in the world by FIFA as of December 2019. The winner will be determined by total points (three for a win, one for a draw), with the first tiebreaker being overall goal difference, followed by goals scored, then head-to-head result. The Iceland women's national football team represents Iceland in international women's football. The matchup in Frisco will be the 15th meeting all-time between the USA and Iceland, but the first since 2015 when the teams played to a 0-0 draw at the Algarve Cup. She has had two bad injuries but has seemingly come back stronger from both. He designed them himself and they are amazing. The SheBelieves Cup represents a showcase event for the campaign, which also features efforts such as the SheBelieves Summit Presented by Deloitte, SheBelieves Hero, a nationwide search for a young community leader who embodies the SheBelieves ethos, SheBelieves Ambassador, a program where female focused nonprofit organizations partner with U.S. Soccer to bring the SheBelieves movement to their community, SheBelieves Rocks, a music competition for female bands, and SheBelieves FanArt, a celebration of the artwork created by fans. Sif Atladttir is playing at her fourth UEFA Women's EURO, having been part of the Iceland squad that reached its first finals in 2009, while Karlna Lea Vilhjlmsdttir is just 20 and playing at her first major finals. Please do not hesitate to contact me. "Today we see our young girls on billboards everywhere in Iceland and we see our big profiles everywhere. Icelands all-time caps leader Sara Bjork Gunnarsdottir currently plays in Lyon with USWNT players Lindsey Horan and Catarina Macario, but she is not on this roster as she makes a comeback from having a baby. In, FIFA. They are trying to make me into a German machine, she has said. Mature beyond her years, she told ruv.is in 2020: To be successful in sports, you have to be humble and kind. The Iceland women's national football team is controlled by the Football Association of Iceland and represents iceland in international competitions. The following players have been called up to a squad in the last 12 months. A year later she signed for Nordsjlland and after a spell with Vlerenga in Norway she is now at Swedens Kristianstad. Played volleyball until she was 16 Looking back I think that has given me a really good grounding when it comes to goalkeeping, she told frettabladid.is. Managed six goals for Breidablik in the Champions League qualifying stage last season, but does not only score goals, she sets them up too and was the assist queen in her home country in 2020 and 2021, scoring or assisting 57 in 33 matches for her club during that period. Signed a three-year deal with Everton in August 2021 but has not been able to play for the club because of work permit issues so has been on loan at rebro and Bayern Munich. Iceland Defeats New Zealand, 1-0, Open 2022 SheBelieves Cup Presented Her name was Margrt Lra Vidarsdttir and in October 2019 she after two serious injuries and giving birth to two children scored with the last kick of her international career in a 6-0 victory in Latvia. The patterns are just like him in action, bouncing around the goal, you just see streaks of colours. France squad for Womens Euro 2022: player profiles. The ideal entry-level account for individual users. Won the Swedish league with Rosengrd and the Bundesliga four times with Wolfsburg before moving to France. Leading 3-0 at halftime after three own goals by New Zealand in the opening 45 minutes, forward Ashley Hatch found the back of the net in the 51st minute, heading home a cross from defender Sofia Huerta. (modern), Iceland celebrate on their way to a 4-0 victory over Czech Republic in a World Cup qualifier last October. The U.S. roster for the 2022 SheBelieves Cup is made up almost entirely of players who attended the USWNT January training camp in Austin, Texas, with the addition of midfielder Catarina Macario, who missed the event due to an important match in France with her club Olympique Lyonnais, and veteran Becky Sauerbrunn, who missed the camp due to a minor injury. Legend In 2020 she joined Eintracht Frankfurt but had a hard time establishing herself in the starting XI and was loaned back to Breidablik to get more playing time. Accessed May 01, 2023. https://www.statista.com/statistics/868105/world-ranking-of-iceland-s-women-s-national-football-team/, FIFA. Then you can access your favorite statistics via the star in the header. mainly because of his uniforms. Huerta and Fox both hit 10 caps against New Zealand on Feb. 20. She calmed them down by explaining that it was all a prank and that her Sigur-win was alive and well. My strengths are my speed and passing, but there is so much I can improve as a player.. The official site of the international governing body of football with news, national associations, competitions, results, fixtures, development, organisation, world . On Feb. 20, Sauerbrunn moved into a tie with Markgraf for 11th on the USWNT all-time caps list with 201 caps. Home stadium[edit] Iceland plays their home matches on the Laugardalsvllur. It doesn't matter how much you worked out during pregnancy. They told me it was dangerous but at first I needed help putting the contacts in, she said. Statista. Used to wear glasses in goal until she joined up with Iceland. A move to Wolfsburg followed and after a loan spell with Kristianstad in Sweden she has established herself in Germany, recently extending her contract to 2025. For the second consecutive year,fans will alsogetthe opportunity to vote for the VisaSheBelievesCup MVP award using an online ballot to select among a list of finalists chosen by the committee. Held annually in the Algarve region of Portugal since 1994, it is one of the most prestigious and longest-running women's international football events and has been nicknamed the "Mini FIFA Women's World Cup[13]". Joined Valur in the autumn of 2018 and won the league a year later before moving to Italy to join Milan. The U.S. Women are no stranger to Toyota Stadium in Frisco, Texas, which is also home to the National Soccer Hall of Fame. After Natasha Anasi scored her first international goal in Icelands 2-1 win vs. the Czech Republic, Iceland has 13 players that have scored internationally. Wednesdays game will be the first between the teams in the USA since 2006 when the USWNT beat Iceland, 2-1, in a friendly played at the University of Richmond. It became quite clear early on that she was very good at football and when she started playing for FH in Hafnarfjrur, she had her parents to thank for enduring the hours-long car journeys there and back. Before that he had coached girls and boys teams, and for a brief period, in the mens Premier League with Thrttur in 2009. In 2009 in Finland they lost against France, Norway and Germany and in 2017 in the Netherlands they failed to get a point against France, Switzerland and Austria. My best friend was a supporter so I started following them too. Where is the Icelandic female national football team placed in the FIFA World Ranking? Directly accessible data for 170 industries from 50 countries and over 1 million facts: Get quick analyses with our professional research service. Her work-rate and determination are hugely appreciated by teammates, as is her experience: she is now in her 20th season as a first-team player. Icelandic Premier League 2023 | National Associations | Inside UEFA As a sophomore in 2021, catching passes from former Tar Heel and . Has been dubbed the teams DJ Razzberry with Sif Atladttir describing her as good on the decks in 2017. The Iceland women's national football team has been known or nicknamed as the " Stelpurnar okkar (Our Girls)". Broadcast Time:8 p.m. CT / 9 p.m. Iceland in FIFA Women's Ranking 2022 | Statista Icelandic football can be described as being submerged in a glacier for a long time. Iceland probably need four or six points against Belgium and Italy to qualify for the last eight. This lowdown on the Iceland team is written by MBLs Vidir Sigurdsson and Bjarni Helgason. Asked what, aside from a strong mentality, was needed to make it in football she told Frettabladid: Diet, sleep and strength. Follow him here on Twitter, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, 2023 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. Belgium v Iceland: Women's Euro 2022 - as it happened 2022; 1. Italy and Iceland take different paths to Euro 2022 - DW