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Which team did Emil Hallfreðsson play for from 2007 to 2010?
Emil Hallfreðsson Emil Hallfreðsson ( born 29 June 1984 ) is an Icelandic footballer who plays as a central midfielder or left winger for Italian club Padova and the Iceland national team . Club career . Early career . Primarily a left-sided midfielder , Emil was brought to Tottenham Hotspur by then Sporting Director Frank Arnesen in December 2004 , having spent his formative years at FH Hafnarfjarðar of the Úrvalsdeild in Iceland . Emil became a regular starter for the Tottenham Hotspur Reserves , and played a key part in the Spurs 2005–06 Premier League Southern Reserve title win . He was then loaned out to Swedish side Malmö FF . He enjoyed some success with Malmö , starting a majority of the games in the 2006 season , with a total of 24 appearances and eight goals . He then returned to England in the fall , after Malmö unsuccessfully tried to convince him to stay . His aim had then been to make the Spurs first team , but in his remaining months at the club he was not selected for a single game . In July 2007 , he was sold to tNorwegian club Lyn , where he was slated to stay until 2010 . His first match for the club was a friendly against Ham-Kam , followed by a 20-minute substitution in a league game away against Sandefjord . His first and only 90-minute appearance was against Bodø/Glimt in the Norwegian Cup , in which he delivered a fine cross to Dylan Macallister for the 1–0 goal and the win . Three days later , the club surprisingly announced that Emil would be leaving for Italy and Reggina . Reggina . Emil played his first Serie A match on 26 August 2007 a 1–1 draw with Atalanta . In his first season , he played a regular role in Regginas team , but in the second season he played less . In April 2009 he did , however , score a spectacular goal against Juventus ; he scored the 2–1 goal for his team but the match ended 2–2 . Barnsley . Having not been selected to play for Reggina first match of the 2009–10 season at Coppa Italia , he completed a one-year loan to Football League Championship side Barnsley on 14 August 2009 . He scored his first goal for Barnsley against Plymouth Argyle on 28 November 2009 . However , the game was later abandoned due to a waterlogged pitch . His first goal did come two weeks later however , in the home game with Newcastle United , slamming home a Daniel Bogdanović cross from 6 yards . Emils goal made it 1–1 in an eventual 2–2 draw . Verona . On 31 August 2010 , Reggina loaned him to Verona . His first season with Verona he was a regular starter and a decisive player in achieving promotion to Serie B . At the end of the season , Emil won the Mastino del Bentegodi award as the teams player of the year . Looking ahead to the upcoming Serie B season , on 22 June 2011 , three days after winning the First Division play-off , Verona outbid Reggina to purchase his contract . Udinese . On 30 January 2016 , Emil joined Udinese , signing a contract until June 2018 . Frosinone . On 31 July 2018 , Emil signed with Serie A side Frosinone . Return to Udinese . On 1 March 2019 , Emil signed for the second time to Udinese after the first half of the season to Frosinone . Padova . On 4 January 2020 , he signed with Serie C club Padova until the end of the 2019–20 season . On 16 September 2020 , he signed a new contract with Padova for the 2020–21 season . International career . He was selected for EURO 2016 . In May 2018 he was named in Iceland’s 23-man squad for the 2018 World Cup in Russia . External links . - Emil Hallfreðssons Official Website - Profile with the KSÍ