The Sport Success of Iceland
Remember the 2018 World Cup Tournament? Then, you remember Iceland being a part of it. How does a nation of 340,000 people achieve international sporting success?
Find out more about how Iceland’s national football team attracted international attention at the 2016 European Championships and the 2018 World Cup, despite having a population of only 340,000.
The Department of Management Studies, hosts a Public Lecture themed, The Sport Success of Iceland: How a Small Nation Achieved International Success with featured speaker Prof. Vidar Halldorsson, Professor at the University of Iceland and Sport Consultant.
The lecture takes place on Saturday 18th January 2020 from 2pm – 4pm at the Teaching and Learning Complex, Lecture Theatre A, 27 St Augustine Circular Road, St. Augustine.
Location/Direction: To view where the Teaching and Learning Complex is located, please click here.
Admission is FREE. Please RSVP via email: Calisia.Gregoire@sta.uwi.edu or 662-2002 ext. 83724.
Parking is available at Heart East Car Park, UWI, St. Augustine Campus.
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About the Speaker
Professor Vidar Halldorsson
Prof. Halldorsson has a PhD. in Sociology from the University of Iceland and a Masters in Sociology of Sport at Leicester University, England. Currently he holds the position of Full-Time Professor of Sociology in the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Iceland.
One of Vidar’s specialty is Sport Research. His research has mainly focused on: a positive development through youth sports and sport achievement, where he authored the book: “Sport in Iceland: How small nations achieve international success” (Routledge, 2017). He is currently working on another book from a sociological perspective on achievement titled “Sport Team Dynamics and Performance: A sociological approach” (Routledge, expected 2020).
Further, since 2003, he has been a prominent sport consultant in Iceland where he worked with all the main sport governing bodies on sports policy, sport clubs and sport teams, as well as some of their national teams in football, handball and basketball in recent years, on sport achievement.
See further information here: www.uni.hi.is/vidarh
