VB Vágur

VB Vágur Handball
Sports director Faroe Islands Vigdis Nolsøe
Head coach Denmark Claus Rasmussen
League Faroese Handball League (Elektronkappingin)
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In February 2013 VB was number two in the Coca-Cola Cup
VB's women's team just after playing the final against Neistin, which Neistin won 27–24 on 9 Feb. 2013.
VB vs. VÍF Vestmanna in Sunsetkappingin in November 2011.
Boys 16: VB vs. Neistin from Tórshavn.

VB Vágur is a Faroese handball club. VB is short for Vágs Bóltfelag. It started as a football club, which was founded on 5 June 1905, but later the sport handball became a part of the club. The handball club is based in Vágur in Suduroy. They play their home matches in the sports hall, Vágshøll on Eiðinum in Vágur. The football club is now known as FC Suðuroy.

Women's handball

VB Vágur (handball) was earlier a handball club for men and women. But since the football competition was changed, so it now starts earlier and ends later, it is not possible anymore, or at least very difficult, for the same person to play both handball and football. So now the handball in Vágur is mostly for women and football is mostly for the men, in the best divisions anyway, the men have a team in the second best division. The population is only 1400, there are not enough people to get good teams in both sports for both genders in such a small village. The women's best division was called 1. deild until 2005 when they changed the name for sponsor reasons to Sunset kappingin or Sunsetdeildin.[1]

Honours for VB Vágur (Handball, Women)

VB Vágur Handball team has won the Faroese Championships three times: 1950, 2003 and 2005.[2]

The Women's Team

The current squad as of February 2013

NR Name Nationality Position
2Rannvá Augustinussen Faroe IslandsRight wing
3Una Nolsøe Faroe IslandsLeft wing
4Bjarta Hergeirsdóttir Faroe IslandsPivot
5Una Egilsdóttir Faroe IslandsMiddle back
6Bára Krosslá Mortensen Faroe IslandsPivot
7Rúna Midjord Jacobsen Faroe IslandsRight wing
8Gurið Mortensen Faroe IslandsLeft back
9Tamara Seja Radic SerbiaMiddle back
10Helga Eyðunsdóttir Kjærbo Faroe IslandsLeft wing
11Marijana Trbojevis SerbiaLeft back
12Beinta Ludvig Gudmundsson Faroe IslandsGoalkeeper
14Birita Hermansdóttir Olsen Faroe IslandsLeft wing
15Laila Midjord Jespersen Faroe IslandsPivot
17Christina Holm Faroe IslandsPivot
18Andrea Nielsen Faroe IslandsRight back
22Guðrun í Lágabø Faroe IslandsGoalkeeper

Foreign players

Over the last decade it has become normal for Faroese handball clubs as well football clubs, to import foreign players in order to improve the team. This is also the fact regarding VB. In 2004 the Football club signed 22-year-old Lithuanian International, Mindaugas Grigalevičius. In 1996 Tomislav Sivić became player/manager for the football team, when he first came to Faroe Islands. The team was coached by another young foreign player/manager, Krzysztof Popczyński, from 1998 to 2001. Most of the foreign players who played for VB were from Eastern Europe, as well as some from Denmark, Iceland and Africa. Although like other football clubs in the Faroe Islands, the large majority of players in the squad were Faroese.

In 2010 the Handball team made an agreement with three players from Lithuania.[3] In 2011 two players from Serbia are playing handball with VB, Na and one player, the goal keeper, comes from Lithuania.

The football club

As mentioned above, VB was founded on 5 June 1905. 90 years later in 1995 the club merged with Sumba to form Sumba/VB, although the merger only lasted a single season. 10 years later, in 2005, there was a second merger between VB Vágur and Sumba, and formed VB/Sumba, which later was changed its name to FC Suðuroy. Other divisions of FC Suðuroy play some of their home games in Sumba at the Krossi Stadium.

Achievements

VB Vágur football team in Europe

Season Competition Round Club 1st leg 2nd leg
2001/02 Champions League 1Q Belarus FK Slavija Mazyr 0–0 0–5

References

  1. ↑ HSF.fo
  2. ↑ HSF.fo
  3. ↑ Sudurras1.com
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