Jón Pauli Olsen

Manager for national teams

Born in Vágur, Faroe Islands, Jón Pauli Olsen is currently the manager for the Faroe Islands women's national football team, he started as their head coach in September 2012. The team played a friendly match against Luxembourg on 28 November 2012. They won 6–0. In the match against Luxembourg two of the players sat a world record. For the first time a combination of parent-offspring played at the same time in a match for their country. The mother and daughter Bára Skaale Klakstein and Eyðvør Klakkstein played together from the 61st minute, when Eyðvør Klakkstein was substituted and then they played together for the rest of the match, which was half an hour. Olsen is also manager for the girls U17 national team of the Faroe Islands from April 2012

Manager for clubs

Olsen was manager of FC Suðuroy's best team in 2010 when they played in the best division. They ended as number nine and got relegated. Before 2010 the club was called VB/Sumba, Olsen was manager for VB/Sumba's first team, which played in 1. deild (the second best division) that year. They won 1. division in 2009. Olsen was also the manager for VB/Sumba in 2008. Jón Pauli Olsen started early with his career as a manager, he was only 19 years old, when he was assisting manager for one of the boy's teams of VB Vágur. In 2005 Jón Pauli Olsen was manager for a merged boys team from the island Suðuroy, it was called VB/TB (from Vágur and Tvøroyri), Olsen was manager together…