Uni Arge

• Name — Uni Arge • Fullname — Uni Jógvanson Arge • Born — 20 January 1971 • Birthplace — Tórshavn, Faroe Islands • Position — Striker • Youthclubs1 — HB Tórshavn • Years1 — 1988–1997 • Years2 — 1998–1999 • Years3 — 1999 • Years4 — 1999–2000 • Years5 — 2000 • Years6 — 2001–2005 • Clubs1 — HB Tórshavn • Clubs2 — Leiftur • Clubs3 — HB Tórshavn • Clubs4 — FC Aarhus • Clubs5 — IA Akranes • Clubs6 — HB Tórshavn • Caps1 — 137 • Caps2 — 28 • Caps3 — 2 • Caps5 — 12 • Caps6 — 19 • Goals1 — 96 • Goals2 — 13 • Goals3 — 6 • Goals5 — 1 • Goals6 — 9 • Nationalyears1 — 1992–2002 • Nationalteam1 — Faroe Islands • Nationalcaps1 — 37 • Nationalgoals1 — 8

Arge started is 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 shortly 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.

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. 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.

• Scores and results list Faroe Islands' goal tally first. • # — Date — Venue — Opponent — Score — Result — Competition • 1 — 25 April 1993 — Tsirion Stadium, Limassol, Cyprus — 3–1 — 3–1 — 1994 WC Qualifying • 2 — 4 September 1996 — Svangaskarð, Toftir, Faroe Islands — 2–6 — 2–6 — 1998 WC Qualifying • 3 — 8 June 1997 — Svangaskarð, Toftir, Faroe Islands — 1–0 — 2–1 — 1998 WC Qualifying • 4 — 9 June 1999 — Svangaskarð, Toftir, Faroe Islands — 1–1 — 2–2 — 2000 Euro qualifying • 5 — 2–1 • 6 — 26 April 2000 — Rheinpark Stadion, Vaduz, Liechtenstein — 1–0 — 1–0 — Friendly • 7 — 3 September 2000 — Svangaskarð, Toftir, Faroe Islands — 1–2 — 2–2 — 2002 WC Qualifying • 8 — 13 February 2002 — Pafiako Stadium, Paphos, Cyprus — 1–0 — 1–0 — Friendly

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 • Varðin - frá hóttandi húsagangi til stórreiðarí í Norðurhøvum, 32 min., 2015 • 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 From September 2023 to April 2026 he has produced and hosted the radio program "Vágskálin" at Kringvarp Føroya, Faroe Islands. It's a program with cultural reviews primarily about Faroese books. So far 92 episodes have been broadcast.

His father is author, journalist, politician and football announcer Jógvan Arge, who is one of the most famous radio reporters of the Faroe Islands and also one of the islands' best selling authors. He was a member of Tórshavn City Council from 2000 to 2016. His grandfather, Niels Juel Arge (1920-1995), was also an author and was the director of Faroese Broadcasting (Útvarp Føroya) from 1960 to 1990. Niels' and Jógvan's work at Faroese Broadcasting is recognized as a huge contribution to Faroese cultural heritage. They have written 45 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, and 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 daughter, Turið Arge Samuelsen, has for many years been a national handball player for the Faroe Islands and has won the Faroese championship five times and the Faroese cup six times with Kyndil Handball Club, Tórshavn. She participated in the European Championships in Basel 2024, where the Faroe Islands earned their first ever championship point in a 17-17 draw against Croatia. She is the top-scoring player for her club with more than 2,000 goals in the national liga (a record) and one of the highest scoring players on the national team.

Uni Arge is recorded with the occupation association football player. Recorded with the occupation songwriter. Recorded with the occupation journalist. Recorded with the occupation singer. Recorded with the occupation actor. Recorded as association football player, singer, handball player, journalist and songwriter. Established in Library of Congress under n2014000222.