Guðmundur Steinarsson

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Guðmundur Steinarsson
Personal information
Date of birth (1979-10-20) 20 October 1979 (age 44)
Place of birth Iceland
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s)
Striker
Team information
Current team
Fjölnir (assistant manager)
Youth career
1990–1995 Keflavík
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1996–2002 Keflavík 82 (28)
1999KA Akureyri (loan) 17 (4)
2002–2004
Brønshøj BK
15 (5)
2003Fram Reykjavik (loan) 11 (0)
2004–2009 Keflavík 87 (36)
2009 FC Vaduz 12 (2)
2009–2012
Keflavík
74 (17)
2013–2015 Njarðvík 0 (0)
International career
1995–1996 Iceland U17 8 (2)
1997 Iceland U19 4 (0)
2000–2001 Iceland U21 7 (1)
2002–2008 Iceland 3 (0)
2011 Iceland futsal 3 (2)
Managerial career
2016– Fjölnir (assistant manager)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Guðmundur Steinarsson (born 20 October 1979) is an Icelandic international former

Brønshøj BK and FC Vaduz
.

Career

Club career

Guðmundur began his career in 1996 with

Brønshøj BK. He played 15 matches for the Danish club, and spent the 2003 campaign on loan in Iceland with Fram Reykjavik. After two years away, he rejoined Keflavík in 2004 and spent a further five seasons with the club, making a further 105 first-team appearances and scoring 45 goals.[2] In the 2008 season, he was named Players' Player of the Year in the Icelandic league.[3]

On 16 January 2009, Guðmundur signed for FC Vaduz and scored on his debut for the club in the 1–1 draw with FC Aarau.[4] Over the following four months, he played 12 league games for Vaduz before leaving Liechtenstein in the summer of 2009.[5] He subsequently rejoined his former club, Keflavík in July of that year and spent another four seasons with the Úrvalsdeild side, scoring 17 goals in 74 league matches.[2] By the time he left Keflavík at the end of the 2012 campaign, he had become the club's all-time top appearance maker and goalscorer in top-division football with 81 goals in 255 matches.[6] On 17 January 2013, it was announced that he had agreed to play for 2. deild karla outfit Njarðvík for the 2013 season.[6]

International career

Guðmundur was

capped three times playing for Iceland. He made his debut in a friendly match against Brazil on 8 March 2002, where Kaká scored his first international goal when Brazil won 6–1. Six years later, on 6 November 2008, Guðmundur played in Iceland's 2–2 draw against Norway in a 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifying match, before he played his last international match when Malta
won 1–0 against Iceland in a friendly match two weeks later.

Honours

Individual

References

  1. ^ Einarsson, Magnús Már (14 November 2016). "Gummi Steinars ráðinn aðstoðarþjálfari Fjölnis (Staðfest)" [Gummi Steinar appointed assistant number (AFP)] (in Icelandic). fotbolti.net. Retrieved 15 November 2016.
  2. ^ a b c "Guðmundur Steinarsson – Meistaraflokkur". KSÍ. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
  3. ^ "Guðmundur og Dóra María valin best" (in Icelandic). KSÍ. 19 October 2009.
  4. ^ "Kirschbaum, Nickenig, Steinarsson und Dadi zum FC Vaduz" (in German). FC Vaduz. 14 January 2009. Archived from the original on 5 October 2011.
  5. ^ "Transferübersicht Dosenbach Challenge League - Saison 2009/10 (Sommer)" (in German). Football.ch. Retrieved 17 June 2009.
  6. ^ a b Elvar Geir Magnússon (17 January 2013). "Gummi Steinars í Njarðvík (Staðfest)". Fótbolti.net. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
  7. ^ a b "Guðmundur Steinarsson íþróttamaður Keflavíkur 2008" (in Icelandic). Víkurfréttir. 9 January 2009.

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