Sverre Andreas Jakobsson

Sverre Andreas Jakobsson
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
Years	Team
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
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
	Iceland	182[1]	(27)
Teams managed
2014	Akureyri Handboltafélag
2015–2018	Akureyri Handboltafélag
2019–present	KA (assistant)
Medal record Olympic Games 2008 Beijing Team European Championship 2010 Austria Team

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

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]

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

• Icelandic championship (2): 1998, 2006
• Icelandic Cup (3): 1995, 1996, 2003
• 1. deild karla: 2018

Awards

• Knight's Cross of the Order of the Falcon: 2008

References

1. "Landslið". HSÍ. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
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.
7. "Akureyri handboltafélag tekur þátt". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). 15 May 2017. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
8. "Akureyri aftur upp í efstu deild". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). 23 March 2018. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
9. "Akureyri staðfestir brotthvarf Sverre". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). 28 December 2018. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
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.

External links

• Profile (in German)