# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/emil-palsson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:20:47.500Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/emil-palsson"
name: "Emil Pálsson"
slug: "emil-palsson"
description: "Emil Pálsson is an Icelandic former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He played in his native Iceland from 2008 to 2017 and was named the Úrvalsdeild Player of the Year in 2015. He later played several seasons in Norway before severe heart problems ended his career prematurely in 2022. After playing for several of Iceland's junior national teams, he made his lone senior team cap in 2016."
tagline: "Icelandic association football player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sogndal-Jerv-021021-138.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1993-06-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40
  momentum:             11.42857142857143
  historical:           5.471670666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_P%C3%A1lsson"
    title: "Emil Pálsson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%BE%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "اميل پالسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_P%C3%A1lsson"
    title: "Emil Pálsson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%95%D0%BC%D1%96%D0%BB%D1%8C_%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Еміль Палссон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_P%C3%A1lsson"
    title: "Emil Pálsson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_P%C3%A1lsson"
    title: "Emil Pálsson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18642801"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump