Sverre Andreas Jakobsson (born 8 February 1977) is an
Iceland
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ic-Norwegian
handball
Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of thr ...
manager and former player. With the
Icelandic national handball team, he competed at two Olympics, winning the silver medal at the
2008 Olympics
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.
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. He won the national championship again in 2006 with
Fram.
Coaching career
Sverre was hired as
player-coach
A player–coach (also playing coach, captain–coach, or player–manager) is a member of a sports team who simultaneously holds both playing and coaching duties. Player–coaches may be head coaches or assistant coaches, and they may make chang ...
for
Akureyri Handboltafélag
Akureyri Handboltafélag was a men's handball club, located in Akureyri, Iceland.
History
Akureyri Handboltafélag was founded in 2006 as a joint team between KA and Þór Akureyri. In 2011 it posted the best record in the Úrvalsdeild karla ...
in 2014.
In 2017, the club was relegated from the Úrvalsdeild. 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 and in 2018, the team finished first in
1. deild karla and was promoted back to the Úrvalsdeild along with KA, which finished second.
On 28 December 2018, Akureyri fired Sverre from his position as head coach.
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.
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
The Order of the Falcon () is the only order of chivalry in Iceland, founded by Christian X of Denmark, King Christian X of Denmark and Iceland on 3 July 1921. The award is awarded for merit for Iceland and humanity and has five degrees. Nowaday ...
: 2008
References
External links
Profile
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1977 births
Handball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Handball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Sverre Andreas Jakobsson
Sverre Andreas Jakobsson
Sverre Andreas Jakobsson
Living people
Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Sverre Andreas Jakobsson
Olympic medalists in handball
Sverre Andreas Jakobsson
Sverre Andreas Jakobsson
Handball players from Oslo
Icelandic expatriate handball players in Germany
VfL Gummersbach players
Icelandic handball coaches