Birkir Bjarnason
| Birkir Bjarnason | ||
 Birkir Bjarnason (2018)
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| Personnel | ||
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| birthday | May 27, 1988 | |
| place of birth | Akureyri , Iceland | |
| size | 182 cm | |
| position | midfield | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| Þór Akureyri | ||
| KA Akureyri | ||
| Austrått IL | ||
| –2005 | Figgjo IL | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 2005-2011 | Viking Stavanger | 102 (16) |
| 2008 | → FK Bodø / Glimt (loan) | 22 (5) |
| 2012-2013 | Standard Liege | 16 (0) |
| 2012-2013 | → Pescara Calcio (loan) | 24 (2) |
| 2013 | Pescara Calcio | 1 (0) |
| 2013-2014 | Sampdoria Genoa | 14 (0) |
| 2014-2015 | Pescara Calcio | 35 (10) |
| 2015-2017 | FC Basel | 42 (14) |
| 2017-2019 | Aston Villa | 48 (5) |
| 2019-2020 | Al-Arabi | 3 (1) |
| 2020– | Brescia Calcio | 0 (0) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) 2 |
| 2004 | Iceland U17 | 7 (2) |
| 2005-2007 | Iceland U19 | 14 (3) |
| 2006-2011 | Iceland U21 | 25 (3) |
| 2010– | Iceland | 84 (14) |
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1 Only league games are given. As of January 19, 2020 2 As of November 17, 2019 |
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Birkir Bjarnason (born May 27, 1988 in Akureyri ) is an Icelandic football player . The midfielder is under contract with Brescia Calcio in Italy and is a member of the Icelandic national football team .
Career
In the club
Birkir began his career as a football player on the school team at Sandved Elementary School in 2000. Birkir joined Viking Stavanger from Figgjo in the summer of 2005 . In the 2006/07 season he scored his first goal for Viking against Hamarkameratene . The Serie A club Reggina Calcio offered Birkir a contract in January 2008. The Icelander turned down the offer and stayed with Viking. For Stavanger he scored 16 goals in 102 league games by the end of the 2011 season.
On January 13, 2012, he signed a four-year contract with Standard Liège in Belgium. For the 2012/13 season he was loaned to the Italian second division club Pescara Calcio .
On July 9, 2015, Birkir Bjarnason became the first Icelander to join the Swiss series champions FC Basel , with whom he signed a three-year contract. He made his league debut on July 25, 2015 in the 3-2 win of FC Basel against Grasshopper Club Zurich at the Letzigrund stadium in Zurich. He scored his first goal in the Champions League qualifying match against the Polish club Lech Posen in St. Jakob-Park when he scored 1-0 in the 91st minute. Under coach Urs Fischer , Birkir won the Swiss championship title with FCB at the end of the 2015/16 Swiss championship .
In January 2017, Birkir moved to Aston Villa . He signed a three and a half year contract. However, the engagement ended prematurely in August 2019 when he reached an agreement with the Birmingham club to terminate the contract.
After several months without a club, the midfielder signed a contract with Qatari first division club Al-Arabi from the capital Doha in October 2019, initially valid until January 2020 .
After three league games in which the Icelander had scored a goal, he left the emirate at the end of January 2020 and signed a contract with the Italian first division club Brescia Calcio until June 2021 .
National team
Birkir Bjarnason played his first international match for the Icelandic national team on May 29, 2010 in a 4-0 victory over Andorra. At the European Football Championship in France in 2016 , he scored the 1-1 goal in the group stage match against Portugal and thus the first goal of an Icelandic national team in a final round. With Iceland he won 2-1 in the round of 16 against England and moved into the quarter-finals against France . In the game against the French , he scored his second tournament goal with the goal to make it 2: 5 in the 84th minute. He played in all five games of his team over the full season.
He was also on the Icelandic squad for the 2018 World Cup in Russia, where Iceland was able to take part in a World Cup finals for the first time. After a draw with Argentina and defeats against Nigeria and Croatia, Iceland was eliminated as the last in Group D in the preliminary round; Birkir Bjarnason was used in all three games in the left midfield.
titles and achievements
FC Basel
Individual evidence
- ↑ Birkir Bjarnason ( Memento of November 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on the Delfino Pescara 1936 website , accessed on October 17, 2012
- ↑ Birkir Bjarnason changes to FC Basel 1893 , FCB.ch from July 9, 2015, accessed on July 29, 2015
- ↑ Casper Marti: It is done! FCB are champions for the 19th time . FC Basel 1893. 2016. Accessed April 30, 2016.
- ↑ Aston Villa: Birkir Bjarnason joins Villa , accessed January 25, 2017
- ↑ Aston Villa: Transfer news: Bjarnason departs Aston Villa , accessed August 9, 2019
- ↑ Found what you were looking for after a long search for a club: Former FCB-Icelanders will sweat in the future , sport.ch, accessed on October 17, 2019
- ↑ Bjarnason ingaggiato dal Brescia Calcio. , bresciacalcio.it, accessed January 19, 2020 (Italian)
- ↑ Match data on uefa.com, accessed July 6, 2016
Web links
- Birkir Bjarnason in the database of weltfussball.de
- Birkir Bjarnason in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Birkir Bjarnason |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | icelandic soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 27, 1988 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Akureyri , Iceland |