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Eiður Guðjohnsen

1978 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eiður Guðjohnsen has received more than 2,906,647 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia. Eiður Guðjohnsen is the 1,294th most popular soccer player (up from 1,847th in 2019), the 37th most popular biography from Iceland (up from 48th in 2019) and the most popular Icelander Soccer Player.

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  • 3.55

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Eiður Guðjohnsen ranks 1,294 out of 16,880. Before him are Fred, Park Ji-sung, Kevin De Bruyne, Armando Castellazzi, Manuel Amoros, and Axel Witsel. After him are Valery Voronin, Sam Allardyce, Horst Köppel, Essam El Hadary, Joaquín, and Maxi López.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1978, Eiður Guðjohnsen ranks 46. Before him are Rio Ferdinand, Gael García Bernal, Ha Ji-won, Luis Fonsi, Jeton Kelmendi, and Walter Samuel. After him are Olena Zelenska, Anthony Mackie, Danai Gurira, Laetitia Casta, Gabriel Heinze, and Yiruma.

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In Iceland

Among people born in Iceland, Eiður Guðjohnsen ranks 37 out of 180. Before him are Matthías Jochumsson (1835), Jóhannes Sveinsson Kjarval (1885), Sturla Þórðarson (1214), Jón Leifs (1899), Katrín Jakobsdóttir (1976), and Guðbrandur Þorláksson (1542). After him are Baltasar Kormákur (1966), Yrsa Sigurðardóttir (1963), Erró (1932), Jóhann Jóhannsson (1969), Davíð Oddsson (1948), and Steingrímur Hermannsson (1928).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Iceland

Among soccer players born in Iceland, Eiður Guðjohnsen ranks 1. After him are Ásgeir Sigurvinsson (1955), Arnór Guðjohnsen (1961), Gylfi Sigurðsson (1989), Heimir Hallgrímsson (1967), Ragnar Sigurðsson (1986), Atli Eðvaldsson (1957), Kolbeinn Sigþórsson (1990), Birkir Bjarnason (1988), Hannes Þór Halldórsson (1984), Jóhannes Eðvaldsson (1950), and Alfreð Finnbogason (1989).

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