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Björgólfur Hideaki Takefusa

Icelandic footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ2717010 ↗
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Björgólfur Hideaki Takefusa (born 11 May 1980) is an Icelandic former professional footballer who played as a forward. He formerly represented the Iceland national team, making three appearances in 2003 and 2009.

Early life

Björgólfur was born 11 May 1980. 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. When Björgólfur was four years old, Kenichi left his family and returned to Japan. Björgólfur's parents divorced when he was five.

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. Björgólfur moved from KR to Viking in October 2010.

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“Björgólfur Hideaki Takefusa” enters the record as icelandic footballer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Björgólfur, Hideaki and Takefusa can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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“Björgólfur Hideaki Takefusa” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Björgólfur, Hideaki and Takefusa provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2717010. The first chronological checks are 1980, 2003, 2009 and 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from “Björgólfur Hideaki Takefusa” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.