Ólína Guðbjörg Viðarsdóttir (born 16 November 1982) is an Icelandic

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defender and a former member of the Icelandic national football team.

Club career

From 2009 until 2012, Ólína played club football in Sweden for

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. She joined Chelsea Ladies of the English

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in January 2013. She returned to Iceland at the start of July and signed for Valur. In November 2014 she signed for

Fylkir Íþróttafélagið Fylkir (, ) is a multi-sport club in Árbær, in the eastern part of Reykjavík, the capital of Iceland. It features departments in football, handball, volleyball, gymnastics and karate. Kit The Fylkir official home kit is ...

. In November 2016, Ólína signed with KR. She missed the majority of the 2017 Úrvalsdeild season due to a

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she received in the second game of the season.

National team career

Ólína was part of Iceland's national team and competed in the

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s in

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

and

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. She retired from international football in 2014.

Personal life

In June 2012, Ólína and partner Edda Garðarsdóttir had their first child when she (Ólína) gave birth to a daughter.

Achievements

*Two times Icelandic champion *Three times Icelandic cup winner

References

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