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Eiður Guðjohnsen
Eiður Guðjohnsen · Светлана Бекетова, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Person

Eiður Guðjohnsen

b. 1978

Icelandic footballer

Born
15 Sept 1978 · Reykjavík
Part ofIceland972 CE – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 55 years
  1. 15 Sept 1978BornBorn in Reykjavík
  2. 1992 – 1994TeamIceland national under-17 football team
  3. 1994 – 1996TeamIceland national under-19 football team
  4. 1994 – 1998TeamIceland national under-21 football team
  5. 1994TeamValur
  6. 1995 – 1997TeamPSV Eindhoven
  7. 1996 – 2016TeamIceland men's national football team
  8. 1997 – 1998TeamKR Reykjavík
  9. 1998 – 2000TeamBolton Wanderers F.C.
  10. 1998TeamKR Reykjavík
  11. 2000 – 2006TeamChelsea F.C.
  12. 2006 – 2009TeamFC Barcelona
  13. 2009 – 2010TeamAS Monaco FC
  14. 2010 – 2011TeamStoke City F.C.
  15. 2010TeamTottenham Hotspur F.C.
  16. 2011 – 2012TeamAEK Athens F.C.
  17. 2011TeamFulham F.C.
  18. 2012 – 2013TeamCercle Brugge K.S.V.
  19. 2013 – 2014TeamClub Brugge K.V.
  20. 2014 – 2015TeamBolton Wanderers F.C.
  21. 2015TeamCangzhou Mighty Lions F.C.
  22. 2016TeamMolde FK
  23. 2016TeamPune FC

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1978 – today).

  1. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  2. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  3. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  4. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  5. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  6. 1985Schengen Agreement
  7. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  8. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  9. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  10. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  11. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  12. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  13. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  14. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
  15. 2003 – 2011Iraq War
  16. 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
  17. 20062006 FIFA World Cup
  18. 20082008 Summer Olympics
  19. 2008Russo-Georgian War
  20. 20102010 Haiti earthquake
  21. 2010 – 2012Arab Spring
  22. 20112011 Norway attacks
  23. 2011Libyan civil war
  24. 2011 – 2024Syrian civil war
  25. 20122012 Summer Olympics
  26. 20142014 FIFA World Cup
  27. 2014Russo-Ukrainian war
  28. 2015Paris Agreement
  29. 20182018 FIFA World Cup
  30. 2020COVID-19 pandemic
  31. 20212020 Summer Olympics
  32. 2022Russo-Ukrainian war
  33. 2023Gaza war
  34. 20242024 Summer Olympics
  35. 20262026 Iran war

Biography

Eiður Smári Guðjohnsen (transliterated as Eidur Smari Gudjohnsen; born 15 September 1978) is an Icelandic professional football coach and former player who played as a forward. Eiður saw his greatest success in England and Spain with Chelsea and Barcelona respectively, where he won the UEFA Champions League and La Liga with the latter and the League Cup and Premiership twice with the former. Along with two spells at Bolton Wanderers fourteen years apart, he also played in Iceland, the Netherlands, France, Greece, Belgium, China, Norway and India in a club career lasting 23 years. He is regarded as the greatest Icelandic footballer of all time.

Eiður is the son of Arnór Guðjohnsen, who was also an Icelandic international footballer. He made his full international debut for Iceland as a substitute for his father in 1996, scoring 26 international goals in 88 caps between 1996 and 2016. He was the captain of the Iceland national team until Ólafur Jóhannesson took over the role of manager. He was part of their squad that reached the quarter-finals of UEFA Euro 2016, their first major tournament.

Text from the Wikipedia article Eiður Guðjohnsen, CC BY-SA 4.0

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