Birkir Kristinsson

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Personal information
Birkir Kristinsson
Full name	Birkir Kristinsson
Date of birth	October 15, 1964 (1964-10-15) (age 43)
Place of birth	Iceland
Height	1,83 m.
Playing position	goalkeeper
Club information
Current club	retired
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1983 1984 1985-1987 1988-1995 1996-1997 1998 1998-1999 1999 1999-2000 2000 2000-2001 2001-2006 2008	Vopnafjörður KA Akureyri ÍA Fram Brann Bergen IFK Norrköping Bolton Wanderers ÍBV Austria Lustenau ÍBV Stoke City ÍBV Fram career totals	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)
National team²
1988-2004	Iceland	74 (0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 5 November 2007. ² National team caps and goals correct as of 5 September 2007. * Appearances (Goals)

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

1 Club career
2 International career
3 External links
4 References

[edit] 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.

[edit] International career

He earned 74 caps for the Iceland national football team, over a period of 16 years^[1]. 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.