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Full name
  
Olafur Ingi Skulason

Years
  
Team

Weight
  
82 kg

Number
  
22

Height
  
1.83 m


Role
  
Footballer

Name
  
Olafur Skulason

Career start
  
2000

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Date of birth
  
(1983-04-01) 1 April 1983 (age 32)

Current teams
  
Genclerbirligi S.K. (#22 / Midfielder), Iceland national football team (Midfielder)

Profiles


Playing position
  
Defensive midfielder

Place of birth
  
Reykjavik, Iceland

Ólafur Ingi Skúlason (born 1 April 1983) is an Icelandic footballer and a midfielder who plays for Karabükspor.

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Club career

Ólafur was born in Reykjavík, Iceland where he played for Fylkir. After the Icelandic season had come to a close, he was looking for new employment, and found it with Arsenal on 1 July 2001. Ólafur was loaned back to Fylkir over a part of the 2003 season, and was voted the best young player in the Icelandic league 2003.

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A defensive midfielder, his Arsenal debut came on 2 December 2003 in a 5–1 defeat of Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C., replacing Justin Hoyte after 55 minutes of the match. Ólafur was released by Arsenal on 28 May 2005. He signed for Brentford on 22 June 2005. Upon his arrival at Brentford, the club's website quoted him as saying: "I look at this as a very important move for my career, knowing that manager Martin Allen had been interested in signing me for a while was a huge compliment for me."

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In the second game of the 2005/6 season, Ólafur suffered a cruciate and medial ligament injury resulting from a tackle with Chesterfield's Derek Niven, which ruled him out for the rest of the season. He was passed fit for the start of the 2006/7 season and completed his comeback by scoring the winner in a 1–0 win over Blackpool, the first game of the season. He signed for Helsingborgs IF on 21 February 2007. After three successful years in Helsingborg, Ólafur turned down a new contract offer and signed for Danish team SønderjyskE on 6 December 2009.

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A year later Ólafur signed for Zulte Waregem in Belgium and stayed there for four years. He then plied his trade in Turkey for a year.

International career

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Ólafur earned his first cap for Iceland in a friendly against Mexico on 20 November 2003 as a substitute, replacing Veigar Páll Gunnarsson. He has also captained their U21 team.

Although playing almost 30 international games for over ten years, Ólafur never quite managed to become a regular first team member of the Icelandic team. He was, however, a useful squad member and played three games as a substitute in Iceland's successful qualification for Euro 2016, including Iceland's famous win over the Netherlands in Amsterdam. He was not selected for Iceland's Euro 2016 team.

International goals

Scores and results list Iceland's goal tally first..

References

Ólafur Ingi Skúlason Wikipedia