Brynjar Gunnarsson

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Brynjar Gunnarsson
Personal information
Full name	Brynjar Björn Gunnarsson
Date of birth	October 16, 1975 (age 31)
Place of birth	Reykjavík, Iceland
Height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Playing position	Centre Midfield
Club information
Current club	Reading
Number	6
Youth clubs
1995-1997	KR Reykjavík
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1995-1997 1998 1998 1999 1999-2003 2003-2004 2004-2005 2005-	KR Reykjavík Vålerenga Moss (loan) Örgryte IS Stoke City Nottingham Forest Watford Reading	50 (1) 4 (0) 5 (2) 24 (1) 158 (19) 14 (0) 43 (3) 47 (6)
National team2
1997-	Iceland	54 (3)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 18:46, 7 April 2007 (UTC). 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 20 August 2006. * Appearances (Goals)

Brynjar Björn Gunnarsson (born 16 October 1975 in Reykjavík) is an Icelandic footballer.

His position is midfielder or defender, and he plays professionally for Reading. He previously played for Nottingham Forest, Stoke City and Watford in England as well as Vålerenga in Norway, Örgryte IS in Sweden and KR Reykjavík in Iceland.

In 1999, Stoke City paid a club-record fee of £600,000 for Gunnarsson. He spent four years at the Britannia Stadium, making over 150 appearances, before moving onto Nottingham Forest on a free transfer in 2003.

However, he did not impress at the City Ground and was loaned back to Stoke just months later before Watford signed him in the summer of 2004, taking advantage of another Bosman move.

Gunnarsson signed for Watford in the summer of 2004, after being released by Forest. He made 43 appearances in an impressive first season. However, Ray Lewington's replacement as Watford manager, Adrian Boothroyd, to some raised eyebrows from the Watford support, allowed Gunnarsson to leave for Reading for a nominal fee in the summer of 2005. Boothroyd gave the justification that Gunnarsson was too similar to his central midfield partner, Gavin Mahon, and of lesser quality.

On 13 November 2006, Gunnarsson signed a contract extension to keep him at Reading until June 2008^[1].

[edit] Important Goals

Gunnarsson may not be considered as a first team regular by most, but he has scored plenty of important goals. Notable goals include an equalising goal against Manchester United in the 2006/7 season's FA Cup and a winning goal in the dying moments against Sheffield United in the 2005/6 Coca Cola Championship season.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Brynjar Gunnarsson profile at readingfc.co.uk
• Brynjar Gunnarsson career stats at Soccerbase

Reading F.C. - Current Squad
1 Hahnemann | 2 Murty | 3 Shorey | 4 Sidwell | 5 Sonko | 6 Gunnarsson | 7 Little | 8 Lita | 9 Doyle | 10 Hunt | 11 Oster | 12 Kitson | 14 Halls | 15 Harper | 16 Ingimarsson | 17 Convey | 19 Seol | 22 Bikey | 23 de la Cruz | 24 Long | 25 Bennett | 27 Brown | 28 Halford | 29 Duberry | 32 Federici | 36 Andersen | 47 Máté | –– Bozanic | Manager: Coppell

Persondata
NAME	Gunnarsson, Brynjar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Footballer
DATE OF BIRTH	16 October 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH	Reykjavík
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH