Birkir Kristinsson

Football player infobox
playername = Birkir Kristinsson
fullname = Birkir Kristinsson
nickname =


dateofbirth = birth date and age|1964|10|15
cityofbirth =
countryofbirth = Iceland
height = 1,83 m.
currentclub = retired
clubnumber =
position = goalkeeper
youthyears =
youthclubs =
years = 1983 1984 1985-1987 1988-1995 1996-1997 1998 1998-1999 1999 1999-2000 2000 2000-2001 2001-2006
2008
clubs = Vopnafjörður KA Akureyri ÍA Fram Brann Bergen IFK Norrköping Bolton Wanderers ÍBV Austria Lustenau ÍBV Stoke City ÍBV Fram
"career totals"
caps(goals) = 18 (0) 2 (0) 54 (0) 144 (0) 15 (0) 3 (0) 0 (0) 18 (0) 7 (0) 18 (0) 18 (0) 85 (0) 0 (0)
"382 (0)"
nationalyears = 1988-2004
nationalteam = Iceland
nationalcaps(goals) = 74 (0)
manageryears =
managerclubs =
pcupdate = 5 November 2007
ntupdate = 5 September 2007

Birkir Kristinsson (born October 15, 1964) is a former Icelandic football goalkeeper.

Club career

He started his career with Vestmannaeyjar team ÍBV, and also played with KR, ÍA and Fram in the Icelandic league before moving to S.K. Brann in 1996, where he is still considered as a hero, after his efforts in the cupwinnercup in 1997, where SK Brann reached the quarter finals. Failing to make a solid impression there, he moved on to spells with IFK Norrköping, Bolton Wanderers and Lustenau. In 1999 he returned to ÍBV, and played there since, only interrupted by a spell in Stoke City in 2000/01. His brother Magnús Kristinsson, a businessman, was the chairman of Stoke Holding, the Icelandic consortium which at the time owned Stoke City.

International career

He earned 74 caps for the Iceland national football team, over a period of 16 years [ [http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/ijs-recintlp.html Iceland - Record International Players] - RSSSF] . His last international match was against Italy in Reykjavík in August 2004, where Iceland beat Italy 2-0. Birkir Kristinsson was 40 years old at that time.

External links

* [http://www.national-football-teams.com/v2/player.php?id=8500 National football teams profile]

References