Friðþjófur Thorsteinsson

Friðþjófur Thorsteinsson Pétursson (28 August 1895 – 13 April 1967) was an Icelandic footballer, coach and former chairman of Fram. He is considered one of Iceland's first great footballers. and later grew up in Copenhagen and Reykjavík. Among Friðþjófur's siblings were Gunnar Thorsteinsson, who for a time was the chairman of Fram and Samúel Thorsteinsson, one of the leading footballers that Iceland has produced and later a member of the Denmark men's national football team. They were all brothers of the artist Guðmundur "Muggur" Thorsteinsson.

Football career Friðþjófur started participating in football while attending school in Denmark.

After returning to Iceland he joined Knattspyrnufélagið Fram where he immediately established himself as one of the country's best players. He scored both goals for Fram in a famous victory over Fótboltafélag Reykjavíkur at the UMFÍ national tournament at Melavellir on 17 June 1911, a match considered the first official football match in Iceland. In the three games that season, he scored 12 of Fram's 14 goals, including six against Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur. The following year he repeated the feat and scored six goals in a 9–0 win against Valur.

Friðþjófur was a key member of the Icelandic select team that competed against Akademisk Boldklub in the first visit of a foreign football team to Iceland in the summer of 1919. He scored two of the four goals of the Icelanders victory in the first game between them. where he, among other things, played and coached football, including for St. Andrews FC. while also playing a few matches, and again in 1940. On Fram's 30th anniversary in 1938, he was named an honorary member.

Honours, trophies and achievements Titles Icelandic Championships (4): 1913, 1914, 1918, 1921

Individual Icelandic tournament top goal scorer: 1918, 1919