Teitur Thordarson is an Icelandic football coach.
17 Facts About Teitur Thordarson
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Teitur Thordarson scored 51 goals in 99 appearances, and won four championship titles with IA between 1969 and 1977.
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Teitur Thordarson then joined Cannes where Arsene Wenger was an assistant coach.
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Teitur Thordarson then had a spell in Switzerland with Yverdon-Sport before returning to Sweden in 1985 to complete his playing career with Oster and Skovde.
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Teitur Thordarson received 41 caps for Iceland between 1972 and 1985.
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Teitur Thordarson scored nine goals and captained the team in some of the matches.
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Teitur Thordarson's coaching career extends over two decades starting in Sweden in 1987 with the last club he played for, Skovde.
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Teitur Thordarson led the Bergen club to the 1988 Norwegian Football Cup Final and spent the following two seasons at Brann before ending his first spell by moving to Lyn for two seasons in 1991.
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In 1996, Teitur Thordarson moved to Estonia to become head coach of their national team and Estonian club Flora Tallinn.
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Teitur Thordarson led the club to the Estonian Cup and the Estonian SuperCup titles in 1998.
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Teitur Thordarson helped the Baltic nation move up from 145th to 68th in the FIFA World Ranking.
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Teitur Thordarson led the club to a second-place finish in the 2000 Tippeligaen season, and spent two more seasons with the Bergen outfit before making a return to another former club, Lyn in 2003.
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In 2006, Teitur Thordarson returned to his native Iceland to coach KR Reykjavik to a second-place finish in Iceland's top-flight Landsbankadeild, as well as a spot in the 2006 Icelandic Cup final.
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On 30 November 2009 Teitur Thordarson signed a one-year contract extension with the club.
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On 1 September 2010, the Vancouver Whitecaps FC held a press conference where Teitur Thordarson was named as the coach for the Vancouver Whitecaps' first season in Major League Soccer.
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On 15 January 2012, Cassius Management announced that Teitur Thordarson would be one of six foreign coaches hired for the new league Bengal Premier League Soccer, with group stages beginning 15 March 2012.
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Teitur Thordarson was bought by Basarat, under the ownership of Uro Infra Reality India Ltd.