Björgólfur Hideaki Takefusa
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Björgólfur Hideaki Takefusa | ||
| Date of birth | 11 May 1980 | ||
| Place of birth | Iceland | ||
| Height | Script error: No such module "person height". | ||
| Position(s) | striker | ||
| Team information | |||
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Current team
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Fram | ||
| Number | 7 | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1998–2003 | Þróttur | 60 | (24) |
| 2004–2005 | Fylkir | 28 | (13) |
| 2006-2010 | KR | 88 | (51) |
| 2011 | Víkingur | 14 | (7) |
| 2012 | → Fylkir (Loan) | 17 | (3) |
| 2013 | Valur | 7 | (0) |
| 2014 | Fram | 8 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2003-2009 | Iceland | 3 | (0) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 9 September 2014 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 14 March 2010 |
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Björgólfur Hideaki Takefusa (born 11 May 1980) is an Icelandic football forward of Japanese, American and Icelandic descent, currently playing for Fram.
Club career
His football career started at Þróttur, where he made 37 league appearances. From Þróttur he was signed by Fylkir and played two seasons there. He was signed to KR from Fylkir in October 2005 after having enjoyed a spell there from 2003. Takefusa moved from KR to Viking in October 2010. The most significant goal he ever scored was in a KR victory against AE Larissa in the UEFA Europa League 2009-2010 second qualifying round. This goal sealed a 2-0 victory and a tie against FC Basel in the next qualifying round. He was goal king in 2009.
International career
Takefusa has played three times for the Icelandic national team, against Mexico 2003, Georgia and Iran in 2009.[1]
Personal life
Takefusa's mother is Evelyn Bentína Björgólfsdóttir, daughter of Margrét Þóra Hallgrímsson and George Lincoln Rockwell, and adoptive daughter of Björgólfur Guðmundsson. His father is Kenichi Takefusa, noted in Iceland for teaching karate and founding the company JapÍs, which imported Japanese musical instruments and later became a record label; Kenichi left his family and returned to Japan when his son Björgólfur was four years old.[2] Björgólfur's parents divorced when he was five.[3] Takefusa's half-sister is the former TV presenter Dóra Takefusa.
References
- ↑ Landsleikir Björgólfs - KSI.is
- ↑ 'Björgólfi hafnað af föður sínum', Vísir, 2 April 2013, http://www.visir.is/bjorgolfi-hafnad-af-fodur-sinum/article/2013130409897.
- ↑ Guðmundur Hilmarsson, 'Gæti ekki lifað einn dag án þess að spila fótbolta', Morgunblaðið, June 30 2003, http://www.mbl.is/greinasafn/grein/739241/.
External links
- Björgólfur Hideaki Takefusa at National-Football-Teams.comLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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