Full name Arnór Guðjohnsen Playing position Years Team Position Forward | Height 1.78 m Children Eiður Guðjohnsen | |
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Date of birth (1961-04-30) 30 April 1961 (age 55) Grandchildren Sveinn Aron Guðjohnsen, Daníel Tristan Guðjohnsen, Andri Lucas Guðjohnsen | ||
Arnór Guðjohnsen (born 30 April 1961) is an Icelandic former footballer who played as a striker. He is most famous for his seven-year stint with Belgian club Anderlecht and was the top scorer in the 1986–87 season. He is the father of striker Eiður Guðjohnsen.
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Club career
Starting his career at Víkingur in Iceland, Arnór also played for Valur & Stjarnan, K.S.C. Lokeren Oost-Vlaanderen & R.S.C. Anderlecht in Belgium, FC Girondins de Bordeaux in France, BK Häcken & Örebro SK in Sweden.
Arnór took the final penalty of the 1984 UEFA Cup Final shootout which was saved by Tottenham's Tony Parks.
International career
He is the father and agent of Molde striker Eiður Guðjohnsen. Arnór and Eiður are the only father and son to play for a national football team during the same game, in a match on 24 April 1996 in which Iceland beat Estonia 3–0 in Tallinn. Arnór was 34 and Eiður was just 17 when it happened. Eiður came on as a second-half substitute for his father, so they never actually played together.
At 25 he had been asked his biggest wish, to which he replied "to play international football alongside Eiður". However, shortly before a match in Reykjavik in which father and son were finally scheduled to appear alongside one another, young Eiður broke his ankle in an Under-18 tournament. He duly missed the next two seasons, in which time Arnór retired from football.
"It remains my biggest regret that we didn't get to play together, and I know it's Eiður's too" said Arnór.
Arnór played 73 games for the Icelandic national team and scored 14 goals, four of them in a game against Turkey. He played his last international in October 1997 against Liechtenstein.