Bárður Eyþórsson
basketball coach
Bárður Eyþórsson (born 10 January 1968) is an Icelandic former basketball coach and player. He was twice named the coach of the year of the men's Úrvalsdeild, in the 2003–04 season and in the 2005–06 season, when he coached the Snæfell.
Playing career
Club career
Bárður came up through the junior ranks of Snæfell but moved to Valur at the age of sixteen and played his first senior match in 1986. He played 191 games in the Úrvalsdeild karla from 1986 to 2000 and averaged 14.6 points per game.
National team
Bárður played three games for the Icelandic national basketball team from 1991 to 1992.
Coaching career
Bárður was hired as the head coach of Snæfell men's team in 2000. He guided the club to promotion from Division I to the Úrvalsdeild karla in 2002 and to the Icelandic Basketball Cup finals in 2003, where it lost to Keflavík.
He served as the head coach of ÍR from April 2006 to November that same year, when he resigned for personal reasons.
In 2007 he took over as head coach of Fjölnir. In 2009 he guided them to a promotion to the Úrvalsdeild For his work he was named Division I coach of the year.
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