Gunnar Stahl and Skynet

During the previous two finals Stjarnan came up short every single time. Would a third straight final be the one? Well it was, Stjarnan beat ÍBV by a score of 3-0. This is how it happened.

On a breezy evening at Laugardalsvöllur, Stjarnan's captain Daniel Laxdal lifted the Bikarkeppni after the dominating win. "Finally we are champions, the last two finals left us and the fans with a broken heart, now things are better and we are champions"- Daniel Laxdal.

It was a scoreless match until the 47th minute, when winger Haukur Baldvinsson scored an accurate finish. Three minutes later Jóhann Laxdal would make the most out of an error from ÍBV and score a well placed shot. Winger Ólafur Karl Finsen completed the rout with a tap in the the 87th minute.

After the victory the traveling Stjarnan supporters were singing Manager Gunnar Stahl's name. One fan said he was extremely pleased with the amount of chances the team created during the match. The Laxdal brothers and Baldvinsson impressed the fans.

"It wasn't as easy as I might have liked, but we've come through and won the game."-Gunnar Stahl

"Even with some of the struggles in the league this year I am proud of Gunnar and feel it is time to renew his contract"-Ingvar Jónsson

With the victory Stjarnan have qualified for the 2015-16 UEFA Europa League. This will be the first time the club has ever played in Europe when they will enter in the First Qualifying Round. Stjarnan still have a chance to win the league and then qualify for Champions League.

First year manager Gunnar Stahl has done an amazing job in his first year so far. The season might not be over but it was time to renew. With the win against ÍBV in the Bikarkeppni the board felt it was time. This will be a one year extension lasting until October 2015. The 27 year old had three months left on his existing contract. The financial aspects of the deal have not been released.

"Many would ask why would you take a one year, I say it does not matter how many years as long as I am a member of this great club."-Gunnar Stahl

So a few day later I finally get to my email and see this. A message from Rangers FC? Wow this is pretty cool I wonder what they want.




Wow Ally McCoist wants me to become a member of their staff. I think this would be a great opportunity but I am contracted to Stjarnan and want to stay here for a while. Also being a coach would be nice but I rather be a head coach. WRITES EMAIL RESPONSE.............

August was another great month for us. Still have not lost a game and we are working our butts off. The best part was our 3-0 win against ÍBV in the final of the Bikarkeppni. We went 3-2-0. Also the best part of the month was that five our our guys got called up to the Iceland National Squad. So here is what went on in the August matches that were not reported. Currently we are now in third place.

Matchday fifteen started the month. After the draw against ÍBV I challenged the boys to get a win right before the final. They came through in that challenge. The part I did not care for was the fact they scored two in the second half. This has been our biggest problem all year letting in goals in the second, this has caused a lot of blown games. Garðar Jóhannsson kept his hot streak alive with a hatrick.

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Matchday sixteen was the first match after the cup win. We won this in a very hard fought battle against Fram. Garðar Jóhannsson was the man again scoring the one and only goal.

For matchday seventeen I was extremely upset over the draw. At this point in the season draws are as bad a a loss. I will take the point though since we still can win the league. Garðar Jóhannsson was the hero with his two goals. Once again we gave up goals after leading. This needs to stop.

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Matchday eighteen was the final match of the month. I was happy that we won in an extremely convincing manner. After the match we recieved a message saying that 5 of our guys made the national team for upcoming matches.

Four more matches remained. This was the most important part of the season. We are in third place and have very little room for error. In order to win the league we need to win out and the others need to fail. here is what happened.

Good win but with them scoring in the 80th I was not happy. Maybe I need to hire someone who can teach good defense. But with a win we have three to go!!

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The final home game was very exciting for the fans. We had to comeback from a 3-0 deficit atfter the half. I am so proud of the guys for that.

Another win but another semi collapse. We were very luck to get the goal in the 61st. Oh with that win we are now in second place with two points behind Fram. We need to win and hope they either draw or get beat.

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The first day in October is also our last match of the season. Two things needed to happen. First we needed to win. next we needed league leaders Fram to lose. A draw would still give them the title. So we would end up winning 4-1 but that did not matter at all, we checked the score of Fram's match and they were winning 5-1 at that point. Oh well we didn't get first but second is a new high for the club. This season was great.

Here are the final standings for each major competition here in Iceland.

"Hey guys I am so glad you are here one more time for this season." "it was a great year and I feel we will do even better next year, so any thoughts?"
"Coach, I am really upset at this season."
"Why Daniel? Does anyone else agree?"
some hands are rasied
"You said that we would win the league and even guaranteed it, you lied to us and gave false promises."
"Hold up now!! I simply said we can challenge for the title and would make Europe, we did so stop bitching"
"Well i am upset."
"Ok then so lets get to a few important things." "First to all that are leaving the club I want to thank you for the hard work and your service, good luck where ever you go. Next we will be wearing Under Armour next year."
"Coach I want to apologize for my behavior earlier, it was my fault as captain for our season, too many draws cost us the title, next year I will be a better leader."
"Apology excepted, so we will be back on January 15th for preseason. Remember we have Europa League to get ready for so have a safe and healthy break, see you all!!!!!"

Hello, I'm reading this cool story and I like it. Playing same team and writing my own story on one Serbian forum. I wanna ask you two questions. Do you know what need to do to become professional team and how you sign that Brazilian on first page, how he wanna come on part-time deal?

2013-11-13 10:17#143414 madnessapa : Hello, I'm reading this cool story and I like it. Playing same team and writing my own story on one Serbian forum. I wanna ask you two questions. Do you know what need to do to become professional team and how you sign that Brazilian on first page, how he wanna come on part-time deal?

Basically you just need to make a ton of money to become pro. If I have a good showing in Europa I should be pro in a few. The Brazilian was offered by his agent so I took the risk, Even though Stjarnan is semi they still get good contracts and wages. I might sell him since he has been quite poor.

Cool I didn't get any offer from agents even if I didn't stop them to offer me. Not a single one out of Iceland don't wanna come to me. I just saved game and enter in one team to buy a playef from me just to see how much money I need to unlock option to ask board. I need to have little less then 5M on account to get professional. This will be hard task.

It has been a pretty good offseason for both me and the club. I was able to continue adding a few good new faces that WILL get us the title next year. Also it was sad to see a few good guys leave. It was one of those it wasn't you it's me kind of deals. I wrote them letters and said I will always welcome them back if they want. I was able to travel a bit and see a few friends and what not. I had a good time in London watching my buddy Gylfi Sigurðsson play against Chelsea. Sadly they lost but hell I had fun hanging out with my old friend for a few day. Now today is the 11th of January and I have a few days to prepare for training camp. If we want to win we need to work on a few problems that we had last year, the biggest was conceding very late goals that lead to many draws. I feel my coaching has improved especially after last month. During December I was able to attend a seminar hosted by the one and only Sir Alex. Now I am not the biggest fan of him but he is a great person to look up to and I learned a lot.

"Hello everyone and welcome back also welcome to all of the new guys, I hope you all have a good time here. Well 2015 is going to be a great year for us here at Stjarnan. I have a lot to cover before you all can start physicals. Everything that went on last year in terms of procedure will be the exact same ."
"First I want to address last year, I know some of you are still hurting after coming so close to the title and I bet the break was hard on you with that thought in your head, lets improve and give it 150% and win it all."
" Winning the title is a huge challenge but I know we are up for it."
"With all due respect, I feel that you are putting a ton of pressure on us for the upcoming season."
(I say to myself not this shit again) "I seriously disagree, we can win it all, I see that its possible and so should you Mr. Finsen."
" I for one agree with coach, we can do it, a second place finish is failure!!!!!!!!"
"Now that's the spirit."
"So let's talk about the best thing we have going for us this season, Europa League. Now this will be the first time in club history that we have made any European Competition, I have no direct goals for it but just work hard and good things will come."
"I totally agree this will be massive and we can do it."
"Finally as you know UMF Stjarnan signed a five year deal with Under Armor to become the official supplier of all things Stjarnan. During the Fan fest in a week we will be officially unveiling the kits, I hope you will like them."
"That's going to be nice hopefully our brand is noticed with their addition."
"So that is all but here is our schedule"




"Ok now that this meeting is over go on to the training room to get physicals done after that head to the indoor practice facility for the fitness test."

Above are the new kits for the 2015/16 season. There will be two versions for the fans. The first being replica and that will cost $65 and authentic/on field that will be for about $90. So far the players really like these. The shirts were officially unveiled this past weekend at fan fest.

This year’s home kit features a blue shirt with a white stripe. The shorts will be the traditional white shorts with blue socks. The away kit is inspired by the 2012/13 Tottenham Hotspur home shirt but with blue on the ends of the sleeves.

A great story so far and a nice layout to your posts! Enjoying it and congrats on the strong season...you scored a lot of goals it seems! Could we get a screenshot of your squad ability?

2013-11-15 15:39#143946 k1rups : A great story so far and a nice layout to your posts! Enjoying it and congrats on the strong season...you scored a lot of goals it seems! Could we get a screenshot of your squad ability?

Sure but where do I find it (Squad ability)?