Swedish Lars Lagerbäck, which qualified Iceland for the first time to the finals of a Eurocup, will now return as technical advisor to the national team, while Arnar vidarsson has been confirmed in office, the Icelandic Football Federation has reported.
Vidarsson he was provisionally serving as coach after the departure of Erik Hamrén three months ago, after Iceland lost to Hungary in the playoff tie for the next European Championship.
Lagerbäck, 72, had been out of work since December, when the Norwegian Federation decided to replace him by failing to qualify his team for the same competition.
The veteran Swedish coach has a long history as a coach: he managed Sweden between 2000 and 2009, taking it to two World Cups and three Euro Cups; and Nigeria, whom he coached in South Africa 2010.
His career with Iceland, a country that had never played a final phase, was one of the brightest of his career: he took office in 2011, was about to qualify for Brazil 2014 and achieved it two years later at the European Championship in France. , where he reached the quarterfinals, making Lagerbäck a national hero.
His assistant, Heimir Hallgrímsson, completed the feat by taking this small country without a history in European football until then to Russia 2018.