Sverre Andreas Jakobsson

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Sverre Andreas Jakobsson
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Personal information
Born (1977-02-08) 8 February 1977 (age 47)
Oslo, Norway
Nationality Icelandic
Height 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)
Playing position Pivot
Senior clubs
YearsTeam
0000–1999
 KA
1999–2001
 HK
2001–2003
 UMF Afturelding
2005
 New England Freeze
2005–2006
 Fram
2006–2008
 VfL Gummersbach
2008–2009
 HK
2009–2014
 TV Grosswallstadt
2014–2018
 Akureyri Handboltafélag
2019
 KA
National team
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
 Iceland 182 [1] (27)
Teams managed
2014
 Akureyri Handboltafélag
2015–2018
 Akureyri Handboltafélag
2019–present
 KA (assistant)
Medal record
Olympic Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2008 Beijing Team
European Championship
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2010 Austria Team

Sverre Andreas Jakobsson (born 8 February 1977) is an Icelandic-Norwegian handball manager and former player. With the Icelandic national handball team, he competed at two Olympics, winning the silver medal at the 2008 Olympics. [2]

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Playing career

Sverre started his career with KA at the age of 16 and helped the team win the Icelandic Cup in 1995 and the Icelandic championship in 1997. [3] He won the national championship again in 2006 with Fram. [4]

Coaching career

Sverre was hired as player-coach for Akureyri Handboltafélag in 2014. [5]

In 2017, the club was relegated from the Úrvalsdeild. [6] and shortly after, KA decided to break off from the cooperation and fielded their own team starting from 2017 to 2018. Þór continued to run its men's team under the Akureyri name [7] and in 2018, the team finished first in 1. deild karla and was promoted back to the Úrvalsdeild along with KA, which finished second. [8]

On 28 December 2018, Akureyri fired Sverre from his position as head coach. [9]

In 2019, Sverre was hired as an assistant coach to KA. On 6 April 2019 he appeared in KA's last game of the season at the age of 42, stating that it was the final game of his playing career. [10]

Titles, awards and achievements

Titles

Awards

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References

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  2. ↑ "Beijing 2008 - Men's Handball". www.olympic.org. IOC. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
  3. ↑ "Sverre Jakobsson nýjasti liðsmaður Akureyrar". ka.is (in Icelandic). Knattspyrnufélag Akureyrar. 5 May 2014. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
  4. ↑ "Fram fagnaði Íslandsmeistaratitlinum eftir 34 ára bið". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). 29 April 2006. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
  5. ↑ "Sverre áfram þjálfari Akureyrar". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). 25 May 2017. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  6. ↑ Arnar Geir Halldórsson (4 April 2017). "Akureyri átt handboltalið í efstu deild síðustu 33 ár". kaffid.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 25 July 2018.
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  10. ↑ Ingvi Þór Sæmundsson (6 April 2019). "Kveðjuleikur Heimis og Sverre: Sáum sjarma í því að taka nokkrar varnir saman". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 6 April 2019.


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