Dóra María Lárusdóttir

This is an Icelandic name. The last name is a patronymic, not a family name; this person is properly referred to by the given name Dóra María.

Dóra María Lárusdóttir

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Personal information
Full name	Dóra María Lárusdóttir
Date of birth	(1985-07-24) 24 July 1985
Place of birth	Iceland
Height
Position(s)	Right back, Right wing
Team information
Current team	Valur
Number	10
Youth career
2005–2008	Rhode Island Rams
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2001–2010	Valur	135	(70)
2011	Djurgårdens IF	22	(2)
2012	Vitória
2012–	Valur	27	(7)
International career‡
2001–2002	Iceland U-17	8	(3)
2001–2004	Iceland U-19	17	(6)
2002–2006	Iceland U-21	21	(2)
2003–	Iceland	94	(15)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 8 July 2013 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 13:12, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Dóra María Lárusdóttir (born 24 July 1985) is an Icelandic football player who predominantly plays as a winger for Icelandic Úrvalsdeild club Valur. Since 2003 Dóra María has been part of the Iceland women's national team and she participated at the 2009 and 2013 editions of the UEFA Women's Championships. Having played for Valur for a decade and been voted national Player of the Year in 2008 and 2010, Dóra María has for many years been one of Iceland's leading female footballers. After a spell abroad she returned to Valur in 2012.

Club career

Dóra María spent the 2011 season playing for Djurgårdens IF in Sweden's Damallsvenskan. She scored twice in her 22 league appearances. In January 2012 Dóra María signed for Vitória, of Brazil, where she joined compatriot Þórunn Helga Jónsdóttir.

International career

In September 2003 Dóra María made her senior debut for the Iceland national team, in a 10–0 rout of Poland at Laugardalsvöllur during the 2005 UEFA Women's Championship qualification series. She hit Iceland's final goal after entering play as a 71st-minute substitute.

She became a national team regular over the following years, usually playing on the right wing. In qualifying for UEFA Women's Euro 2009, Dóra María scored twice in the 3–0 play-off second leg win over Ireland as Iceland reached their first major international tournament at any level. At the final tournament in Finland, she played in all three group games as Iceland made a first round exit.

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Dóra María (10) playing against Estonia in September 2009

National team coach Siggi Eyjólfsson selected Dóra María in the Iceland squad for UEFA Women's Euro 2013 in Sweden.

Achievements

• Icelandic champion 6 times (2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010).
• Icelandic cup winner 5 times (2001, 2003, 2006, 2009 and 2010).

Honours

• Voted Player of the Year 2008 and 2010 in Úrvalsdeild kvenna by her fellow footballers.

External links

Dóra María Lárusdóttir – FIFA competition record

• KSÍ – Dóra María Lárusdóttir