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This is an Icelandic name. The last name is patronymic, not a family name; this person is referred to by the given name Valur.
Valur Gíslason
Personal information
Full name Valur Fannar Gíslason
Date of birth (1977-09-08) 8 September 1977 (age 47)
Place of birth Eskifjördur, Iceland
Position(s) Defender / Midfielder
Youth career
?–1995 Umf. Austri
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1995–1996 Fram 30 (2)
1996–1998 Arsenal 0 (0)
1997 → Brighton & Hove Albion (loan) 7 (0)
1998 → Leeds United F.C. (loan)
1999 Strømsgodset 19 (0)
2000–2001 Fram 31 (0)
2002–2005 Fylkir 61 (3)
2006 Valur 7 (1)
2007–2011 Fylkir 87 (12)
2012 Haukar 1 (0)
International career‡
1992–1994 Iceland U-17 27 (3)
1994–1996 Iceland U-19 20 (3)
1996–1999 Iceland U-21 15 (1)
2000–2010 Iceland 5 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 22 September 2012
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 24 March 2010

Valur Fannar Gíslason (born 8 September 1977 in Eskifjördur) is an Icelandic international footballer who last played for Haukar. He is the elder brother of fellow international player Stefán Gíslason.

Career

Valur moved from Fram to English side Arsenal in 1996. However, he never made a league appearance for Arsenal,[1] and spent a loan spell at Brighton & Hove Albion in 1997.[2] He moved to Norwegian side Strømsgodset IF in 1998, before returning to Fram in 1999. He later played for the Iceland national football team and captained for Fram.[3] He later played mostly for Fylkir.

References

  1. ^ "ARSENAL : 1946/47 - 2007/08". Post War English & Scottish Football League A - Z Player's Transfer Database. Retrieved 25 March 2009.
  2. ^ "BRIGHTON & HOVE ALBION : 1946/47 - 2007/08". Post War English & Scottish Football League A - Z Player's Transfer Database. Retrieved 25 March 2009.
  3. ^ "Former Arsenal trainees, from about 1994". Arseweb. Retrieved 25 March 2009.

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