Lára_Kristín_Pedersen
Lára Pedersen
Icelandic footballer
Lára Kristín Pedersen (born 23 May 1994) is an Icelandic footballer who plays as a midfielder for Besta-deild kvenna club Valur and the Iceland women's national team.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Lára Kristín Pedersen | ||
| Date of birth | (1994-05-23) 23 May 1994 (age 29) | ||
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)[1] | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Valur | ||
| Number | 5 | ||
| College career | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2013 | St. John's Red Storm | 20 | (0) |
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2009–2013 | Afturelding | 58 | (8) |
| 2014–2018 | Stjarnan | 77 | (5) |
| 2019 | Þór/KA | 18 | (1) |
| 2020 | KR | 15 | (1) |
| 2021 | Napoli | 6 | (0) |
| 2021– | Valur | 19 | (2) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2009–2010 | Iceland U16 | 9 | (0) |
| 2009–2011 | Iceland U17 | 6 | (0) |
| 2011–2013 | Iceland U19 | 15 | (1) |
| 2012–2015 | Iceland U23 | 2 | (0) |
| 2015– | Iceland | 2 | (0) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 20:43, 7 June 2021 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 20:43, 7 June 2021 (UTC) | |||
Pedersen is from Mosfellsbær and began her football career with Afturelding. She spent five largely successful seasons with Stjarnan from 2014 to 2018, but refused a new contract and decided to move on after the club finished third in 2018.[2] After spending a season with Þór/KA she signed a two-year contract with KR in October 2019.[3]
In February 2021 Pedersen signed for Napoli, as a replacement for Jacynta Galabadaarachchi who had transferred to Celtic.[4]
Pedersen won her first senior cap for the Iceland women's national football team on 4 March 2015, in a 2–0 defeat by Switzerland at the 2015 Algarve Cup.[5] She was named as one of eight players on standby for the Iceland squad at UEFA Women's Euro 2017.[6]
In February 2019 Pedersen gave a radio interview which revealed her long-term struggle with a food addiction.[7]
- "9 Lara Pedersen". St. John's University (New York City). Retrieved 7 June 2021.
- "Lára Kristín riftir við Stjörnuna" (in Icelandic). Morgunblaðið. 2 November 2018. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
- "Lára Kristín til liðs við KR" (in Icelandic). Morgunblaðið. 16 October 2019. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
- "Calcio Femminile. Napoli, arriva Lára Pedersen" (in Italian). La Rampa. 3 February 2021. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
- "Tveggja marka tap gegn Sviss" (in Icelandic). Morgunblaðið. 4 March 2015. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
- "Landsliðshópurinn á EM – Harpa fer með" (in Icelandic). Morgunblaðið. 22 June 2017. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
- "Glímir við matarfíkn – Laug að Frey" (in Icelandic). Morgunblaðið. 20 February 2019. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
- Lára Pedersen at the Football Association of Iceland (in Icelandic)
- Lára Pedersen at Soccerway. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
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