Atli Eðvaldsson

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 Atli.

Atli Eðvaldsson

Personal information
Full name	Atli Eðvaldsson
Date of birth	(1957-03-03) 3 March 1957
Place of birth	Reykjavík, Iceland
Height
Position(s)	Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1974–1980	Valur	93	(31)
1980–1981	Borussia Dortmund	30	(11)
1981–1985	Fortuna Düsseldorf	122	(38)
1985–1988	KFC Uerdingen 05	72	(10)
1988–1989	TuRU Düsseldorf	23	(6)
1989–1990	Gençlerbirliği	23	(4)
1990–1993	KR Reykjavík	48	(16)
1993	HK Kópavogur	11	(1)
Total		422	(117)
International career
1974	Iceland U19	2	(0)
1978	Iceland U21	1	(0)
1976–1991	Iceland	70	(8)
Managerial career
1995–1996	ÍBV
1997	Fylkir
1998–1999	KR Reykjavík
1999–2003	Iceland
2005–2006	Þróttur Reykjavík
2009	Valur
2013	Reynir Sandgerði
2014-	Afturelding
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Atli Eðvaldsson (born 3 March 1957) is an Icelandic former footballer who played as a midfielder. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential players to come from Iceland. After retiring he became a well-known manager.

He is the younger brother of former international player Jóhannes Eðvaldsson. His father, Evald Mikson (Icelandic: Eðvald Hinriksson), was a goalkeeper in the Estonian national football team between 1934 and 1938. Mikson was the Tallinn chief of police during the German occupation of Estonia.

Atli's daughter Sif Atladóttir is a member of the women's national football team.

Club career

Atli started at Valur and later became very successful in the German Bundesliga with Fortuna Düsseldorf and Bayer Uerdingen. On 6 June 1983, he became the first Icelandic player to score a hat-trick in the Bundesliga, when he scored five goals for Fortuna Düsseldorf against Eintracht Frankfurt. After a year in Turkey, he finished his playing career back in Iceland, where he became player-manager.

International career

He made his debut for Iceland in 1976 and went on to win 70 caps, scoring eight goals and captaining the team 31 times. At the time of his retirement he was Iceland's record cap. He played his last international match in a September 1991 friendly game against Denmark.

Manager years

After his playing days ended, Atli went on to manage three Icelandic club teams before taking the helm at the national team in 1999. He lasted four years there. On 4 July 2009, Atli was appointed manager of Premier Division club Valur until the end of the season.

Roger Hollis case

Chapman Pincher alleges that Atli is the owner of certain documents that might add further weight to the case against Roger Hollis, that Hollis was a Russian spy at the head of MI-5 in the UK. As Pincher, in his 90s, states "I have been unable to extract a copy of the interrogation report from Atli", p. 603. The interrogation report is alleged by Pincher to have been written by his father, Evald Mikson, who is now deceased.

External links

• Atli Eðvaldsson at National-Football-Teams.com