# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dagur-sigur-sson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:01:28.324Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dagur-sigur-sson"
name: "Dagur Sigurðsson"
slug: "dagur-sigur-sson"
description: "Dagur Sigurðsson is an Icelandic handball coach and former player who is currently the head coach of the Croatian men's national team. He spent his career playing for clubs in Iceland, Germany and Japan before starting his coaching career in 2003 with Austrian team Bregenz as a player-coach. Dagur later coached the Austrian men's national team, German club Füchse Berlin, where he won the DHB-Pokal and EHF Cup, the German men's national team, with whom he won the 2016 European Championship and earned the bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics, and the Japanese men's national team, with whom he placed third and second at the 2020 and 2024 Asian Championship respectively. Dagur became the head coach of the Croatian men's national handball team in February 2024 and led the team to a second-place finish at the 2025 World Championship and third-place finish at the 2026 European Championship. He was the IHF World Coach of the Year in 2015."
tagline: "Icelandic handball player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dagur_Sigurdsson_-_Handball-Teamchef_Austria_(1).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1973-04-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  historical:           11.848888
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump