JedMaxwellSCIAG https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5739410/2024/09/09/gylfi-sigurdsson-return-iceland/?source=user_shared_article
Article by Daniel Taylor on Gylfi’s late-career resurgence in Iceland.
Extract:(that’s as close as the article comes to salacious, for obvious reasons)But there are good reasons why Sigurdsson, who turned 35 yesterday, has preferred to go back to Reykjavik, the world’s most northern capital, after his absence from the Everton line-up for the year before his contract expired in 2022. That absence has never been publicly explained.
Where, for instance, would he be better received? “He’s by far the biggest name in (Icelandic) football,” says Halldorsson, the long-standing chairman of Fimleikafelag Hafnarfjardar (FH for short), the nearby club where a schoolboy Sigurdsson came through the junior system. “Everybody here was happy to see him back in football.”
That, he says, includes the Icelandic media, which feels important given the scrutiny on Sigurdsson. “They are very supportive of him,” Halldorsson explains. “They always have been. The only thought, because he hadn’t played for two and a half years, was how difficult it would be for him to come back.”
He has six goals in nine league games for Valar, but after finishing second last season they’re currently in third, eleven points behind the leaders.
I am glad that he has got back on his feet, with the obvious caveat that whatever the 'situation' was did not involve him doing anything illegal.
He wasn’t charged with anything so you have to assume there was no basis for the accusations and he can be assumed innocent.
