Uni Arge

Uni Jógvansson Arge (born 20 January 1971 in Tórshavn) is a Faroese journalist, writer, musician, singer, and a former international football striker. He is also a former handball player. He played 105 matches for the handball club Kyndil from Tórshavn and scored 693 goals for the club.[1]

Uni Arge
Personal information
Full name Uni Jógvansson Arge
Date of birth (1971-01-20) 20 January 1971
Place of birth Tórshavn, Faroe Islands
Height 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Striker
Youth career
HB Tórshavn
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1988–1997 HB Tórshavn 137 (96)
1998–1999 Leiftur 28 (13)
1999 HB Tórshavn 2 (6)
1999–2000 FC Aarhus
2000 IA Akranes 12 (1)
2001–2005 HB Tórshavn 19 (9)
National team
1992–2002 Faroe Islands 37 (8)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Club career

Arge started his career with HB Tórshavn and made the first team in 1988. In June that year he came on as a substitute against IF from Fuglafjørður and scored two minutes later. HB Tórshavn went on to win both the Championship and the Cup in 1988. Arge is the most scoring player in HB Tórshavn's history. He scored 182 goals in 232 matches and won the Championship three times and the Cup four times. HB were runners up in the League with Arge in the team four times and attended two more Cup finals, which they eventually lost. In 1998, he moved to Iceland to join Leiftur in Ólafsfjørður and later IA in Akranes. In Iceland he played 50 matches and scored 22 goals. With IA he won the Cup in 2000 becoming the first Faroese footballer to win the Cup abroad. Together with the famous Faroese goalkeeper, Jens Martin Knudsen, he also was a finalist in 1998 with Leiftur, which were defeated 2-0 by IBV. Returning from Iceland in 2001 he joined HB Tórshavn and retired in 2002. He made a memorable comeback in 2005 when he came on as a substitute against TB from Tvøroyri and scored a stunner after only 40 seconds. Arge has played several matches in the European Cup for HB, Leiftur and Akranes and scored against Apoel Nicosia in a 1-1 draw with HB in 1997.

International career

Arge made his debut for the Faroe Islands national football team in an August 1992 friendly match against Israel and earned 37 caps and 8 goals between 1992 and 2002.[2] He is most memorable for scoring his country's first ever World Cup goal against Cyprus in April 1993. His goal against Spain in the Faroe Islands in 1996 is also famous for his celebration after defeating the world's best goalkeeper at that time, Zubizarreta. One of his best performances was in the 2-2 draw against Bosnia Herzegovina on homeground in 1999, where he scored both the Faroese goals. He also had his influence on the remarkable comeback against Slovenia in the Faroes in 2000, where the Faroese team came from being behind 0-2 to clinch a 2-2 draw three minutes from time with goals from Arge and Øssur Hansen. On the national team Arge formed a great attacking duo together with former FC Copenhagen star striker Todi Jónsson.

International goals
Scores and results list Faroe Islands' goal tally first.
#DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
125 April 1993Tsirion Stadium, Limassol, Cyprus Cyprus3–13–11994 WC Qualifying
24 September 1996Svangaskarð, Toftir, Faroe Islands Spain2–62–61998 WC Qualifying
38 June 1997Svangaskarð, Toftir, Faroe Islands Malta1–02–11998 WC Qualifying
49 June 1999Svangaskarð, Toftir, Faroe Islands Bosnia and Herzegovina1–12–22000 Euro qualifying
52–1
626 April 2000Rheinpark Stadion, Vaduz, Liechtenstein Liechtenstein1–01–0Friendly
73 September 2000Svangaskarð, Toftir, Faroe Islands Slovenia1–22–22002 WC Qualifying
813 February 2002Pafiako Stadium, Paphos, Cyprus Liechtenstein1–01–0Friendly

Bibliography

Uni Arge is educated journalist from The Danish School of Journalism in Aarhus, Denmark, and has for many years worked for different Faroese media sources, both as employed and free-lance, also during his years as an international footballer. In 2004, he published his first book "Komin er nú onnur øld", analysing various political and social aspects of life on the Faroes. In 2011, he published his second book Framtíðin kallar (Future is calling). Since then he has written three more books.

  • Komin er nú onnur øld, Tjarnardeild, Tórshavn, 2004. ISBN 99918-935-7-1
  • Framtíðin kallar, Sprotin, Tórshavn, 2011. ISBN 978-99918-71-57-8 [3]
  • Sálarfrøðingar í Føroyum - 1973-2013, Felagið Føroyskir Sálarfrøðingar 2014
  • Føroyar framá - ÍSF 75 ár, ÍSF 2014
  • Gróður í Havn, Tórshavnar kommuna, 2018

Discography

In November 2007, Arge released his first solo album, "Mitt í sjónum", which has two meanings, it can mean "in the middle of the ocean" and "in the middle of visions". In July 2009 he released his second album, "Meldurtíð," and in November 2014 his third album, "Meðan vindurin strýkur," was released. He has written all the songs himself and performs as a singer and a guitarist on all three albums. Many of his songs have become popular on the islands. These are his albums:

  • "Mitt í sjónum", 2007
  • "Meldurtíð", 2009
  • "Meðan vindurin strýkur", 2014

Documentaries

As a journalist Arge has written and narrated several radio og TV programs, often with historical content. These are some of his TV documentaries.

  • Lítla Dímun - gimsteinurin í sjónum, 71 min., 2014
  • Gjógv - millum Norðhavið og Skarðið, 53 min., 2016
  • Stríðsmenn í Havn - Havnar Arbeiðsmannafelag 100 ár, 80 min., 2017
  • Ein dagur í sjúkrarøktini, 55 min., 2018
  • Nýggjár í Vági - ein filmur um samanhald, 45 min., 2018
  • Teir váðafúsu menninir, Kringvarp Føroya, 50 min., 2019
  • Tann valdsmikla tøknin, Kringvarp Føroya, 42 min., 2019
  • Við trøum skal land prýðast, Kringvarp Føroya, 50 min., 2019
  • Nýggjar røddir á tingi, Kringvarp Føroya, 35 min., 2020
  • Føstulávint í Sumba, Kringvarp Føroya, 35 min. 2020

Trivia

His father is author, journalist, politician and football announcer Jógvan Arge, who is one of the most famous radio reporters of the Faroe Islands[4] and one of the best selling authors too. He was a member of Tórshavn City Council from 2000 to 2016. His grandfather, Niels Juel Arge (1920-1995),[5] was the director of the Faroese Broadcasting (Útvarp Føroya) from 1960 til 1990. Their work at the Faroese Broadcasting is recognized as a huge contribution to Faroese culturel heritage. They have written around 40 books on various historical matters relating to the Faroe Islands. His uncle, Magni Arge, was managing director of the Faroese airline, Atlantic Airways from 1995 to 2013. He was in 2015 elected to the Faroese Parliament, Løgtingið, og came second to the leader of the Faroese Republican Party, Høgni Hoydal, to be elected to the Danish Parliament, Folketinget, where he served until 2019, because Hoydal served as the Minister of Fisheries in the Faroe Islands. His daugther, Turið Arge Samuelsen, is a national handball player for the Faroe Islands and has won the Faroese championship and the Faroese cup three times each.

References
  1. Kyndil.fo Archived 2007-07-04 at Archive.today
  2. Faroe Islands - Record International Players - RSSSF
  3. HNJ.fo, Uni Arge
  4. Tjodveldi.fo, Jógvan Arge 65, 17. juni 2012 rundar Jógvan Arge 65 ár. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
  5. Snar.fo, Niels Juel Arge (in Faroese) Retrieved 14 March 2018.
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