Bárður Eyþórsson (born 10 January 1968) is an Icelandic former
basketball coach
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and player. He was twice named the
coach of the year Many sports leagues, sportswriting associations, and other organizations confer "Coach of the Year" awards. In some sports — including baseball and association football — the award is called the "Manager of the Year" award.
Some of the ...
of the men's
Úrvalsdeild
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, in the 2003–04 season and in the 2005–06 season, when he coached the
Snæfell.
Playing career
Club career
Bárður came up through the junior ranks of
Snæfell but moved to
Valur at the age of sixteen and played his first senior match in 1986. He played 191 games in the
Úrvalsdeild karla from 1986 to 2000 and averaged 14.6 points per game.
National team
Bárður played three games for the
Icelandic national basketball team from 1991 to 1992.
Coaching career
Bárður was hired as the head coach of Snæfell men's team in 2000. He guided the club to promotion from Division I to the
Úrvalsdeild karla in 2002 and to the
Icelandic Basketball Cup finals in 2003, where it lost to
Keflavík
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In 1995, Keflavík merged with nearby Njar ...
.
He served as the head coach of
ÍR from April 2006 to November that same year, when he resigned for personal reasons.
In 2007 he took over as head coach of
Fjölnir
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. In 2009 he guided them to a promotion to the Úrvalsdeild For his work he was named
Division I coach of the year. and served there until his resignation in 2010.
In 2011, Bárður was hired as Tindastóll head coach after
Borce Ilievski
Borce Ilievski (born August 3, 1972) is a Macedonian-Icelandic professional basketball coach. In 2019 he was named the Úrvalsdeild karla Coach of the Year after guiding ÍR to the Úrvalsdeild finals.
Coaching career
In 2006, Ilievski was hired ...
resigned.
He guided the team to the Icelandic Basketball Cup finals in February 2012. On 24 November 2012 he guided the club to victory in the
Icelandic Company Cup. Bárður last coached Tindastóll during the 2013–2014 season where he guided them to the Division I championship and promotion to Úrvalsdeild karla.
References
External links
Úrvalsdeild stats
1968 births
Living people
Bardur Eythorsson
Bardur Eythorsson
Bardur Eythorsson
Bardur Eythorsson
Bardur Eythorsson
Bardur Eythorsson
Bardur Eythorsson
Bardur Eythorsson
Bardur Eythorsson
20th-century Icelandic sportsmen
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