Former Maccabi Haifa Defender Eyjolfsson Announces Retirement
Translated & summarized from Mako by baba
Former Maccabi Haifa defender Holmar Orn Eyjolfsson announced he will retire from football at the end of the current season. The 36-year-old Icelandic player had a career that included stints in multiple European countries and with the Icelandic national team. Eyjolfsson expressed gratitude for fulfilling his childhood dream of becoming a professional footballer.
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- Holmar Orn Eyjolfsson, ex-Maccabi Haifa player, will retire after this season.
- The 36-year-old Icelandic defender played for clubs in six countries.
- He represented Iceland's senior national team 19 times.
- Eyjolfsson called his career a fulfillment of a childhood dream.
Holmar Orn Eyjolfsson, a former defender for Israel's Maccabi Haifa and current captain of Iceland's Valur, has announced his decision to retire from professional football at the end of the current season. The 36-year-old Icelandic player, who played for Maccabi Haifa during the 2016/17 season, is concluding a career that spanned clubs in England, Germany, Norway, Israel, and Bulgaria.
Eyjolfsson joined Maccabi Haifa in December 2016 from Norway's Rosenborg, signing a four-and-a-half-year contract. He made 16 appearances across all competitions in his single season with the club before being loaned to Bulgaria's Levski Sofia, where he eventually continued his career. Prior to his time in Israel, he played for Germany's Bochum and Rosenborg, with whom he won the Norwegian league title and domestic cup.
After his stint in Bulgaria, he returned to Rosenborg in 2020. In 2022, he returned to his native Iceland to join Valur, where he currently serves as captain. Eyjolfsson also represented Iceland internationally, earning 19 caps for the senior national team and scoring two goals. He was also part of the Iceland U-21 squad that qualified for the 2011 European Championship.
Reflecting on his decision, Eyjolfsson stated, "After much thought, I have decided to hang up my boots at the end of this season. Ever since I was a small child, my dream was to become a professional footballer, and I am grateful that I was given the opportunity to fulfill it."
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