Eiður Guðjohnsen

Eidur Gudjohnsen on March 10, 2007

Eidur Gudjohnsen Smári ( born September 15, 1978 in Reykjavík ) is an Icelandic professional football player. He was captain of the Icelandic national football team and is regarded as the best footballer in the Icelandic history. With 24 international goals he is Icelandic scorer

Career

His first top-flight Eidur Gudjohnsen completed the age of 15 at his youth club Valur Reykjavík, where he was already 16 years old regulars. He quickly moved to PSV Eindhoven, where he made ​​his debut at age 17 in the first team and, inter alia, in the season 1995/96 strike partner Ronaldo was.

When Gudjohnsen 1996 seriously injured, he was loaned from Eindhoven to KR Reykjavík, where he was quickly back to its former strength, so he 1998 English club Bolton Wanderers, which was then in the English First Division played, changed. There he scored in the 1999/2000 season 21 results. The Wanderers reached in this season's FA Cup semi-final.

In the summer of 2000, Chelsea Gudjohnsen committed detachment for four million pounds. Here he made with Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink one of the best striker duo in their history. Both achieved together in the season 2001 /02 50 Hits ( 27 Hasselbaink, Gudjohnsen 23). After Roman Abramovich bought the club, Gudjohnsen remained despite strong competition ( Drogba, Kezman, Crespo ) regular players and scored in the 2004/05 season twelve goals for his team and was used as the only player beside Frank Lampard in all 38 championship matches. In the season 2005/ 06 Eidur Gudjohnsen was used by coach Jose Mourinho mainly in midfield, but only came to 26 inserts and only scored two goals. In the summer of 2006 Andriy Shevchenko joined the London Capital Club, he saw no future at Chelsea and moved to the Spanish La Liga for FC Barcelona. In his debut against Celta Vigo he scored the winning goal for Barcelona to 3:2 in the 87th minute.

For the 2009/10 season Gudjohnsen has signed a two -year contract with AS Monaco. In January 2010, Tottenham Hotspur loaned him out to the end of the season. At the beginning of the season 2010/11 he moved to the English first division club Stoke City. The club loaned him, however, already in January 2011 to the league rivals FC Fulham from.

After the loan Gudjohnsen left Stoke City and joined the AEK Athens. He signed a contract until 2013. Gudjohnsen In autumn 2011 suffered a severe broken leg and was sidelined for four months. During the summer break in 2012, his contract was dissolved in mutual agreement.

As of October 2, 2012 was the Belgian first division side Cercle Brugge Gudjohnsen under contract. In January 2013 he moved to league rivals, urban rivals and top side FC Bruges. There he wrote until the end of June 2014.

Others

On 24 April 1996 Eidur Gudjohnsen wrote football history when he came in to replace his father Arnór Gudjohnsen in Tallinn at an official international match against Estonia Islands. This was the first and only time that a son came in to replace his father in a soccer match. Shortly thereafter, both should even be in the starting, but Eidur broke his leg and was only fit again as his father had resigned. On November 21, 2013, was for the lost playoff game for the 2014 World Cup against Croatia, his retirement from international football known.

Gudjohnsen is the uncle of the Icelandic handball player Aron Palmarsson, which is currently at THW Kiel under contract.

Achievements

  • Dutch Cup winner: 1996
  • English Football Champion: 2005, 2006
  • Community Shield winner: 2005
  • English League Cup: 2005
  • Spanish Champion: 2009
  • Spanish Cup winner: 2009
  • Champions League winner: 2009
  • Player of the year in Iceland: 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2009
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