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Eidur GudjohnsenEiur Smri Gujonsen (born 15 September 1978 in Reykjavk) is an Icelandic football player who is currently a striker for the English Premiership club Chelsea and the captain of the Iceland national team. English-language media have internationalized his name as Eidur Gudjohnsen since he began playing football in the Netherlands and England. His father Arnr Gujonsen1 was one of the top players in Icelandic history, and played most of his football career in Belgium. Eiur was born when his father was 17, just before he moved to Belgium. After the family returned to Iceland at the end of his father's Belgian career, Eiur joined the Reykjavk club Valur, making his first-team debut as a 15-year-old. In 1994, he joined Dutch powers PSV Eindhoven. Despite competing with several other top strikers, including a young Ronaldo, he made his PSV first-team debut at 17, and shortly thereafter played in the Champions League against Barcelona. On 24 April 1996, he and his father entered football history in an Iceland international friendly against Estonia in Tallinn. His father started the match, and Eiur came on in the second half as a substitute for his father. This was the first time that a father and son had ever played in the same international match. Late in 1996, he broke his ankle, and had difficulty coming back because of undiagnosed tendonitis in that ankle. During his injury struggles, PSV released him. After a spell in Iceland with KR Reykjavk, he signed with Bolton Wanderers in 1999, scoring 21 goals in the 1999/2000 season for the Trotters and helping them to the semifinals of both the FA Cup and League Cup. In the 2000 offseason, during a period of financiall troubles at Bolton, he was signed by Chelsea for a pound sterling4 million fee, and has played there ever since. Early in 2003, he admitted to a gambling problem, confessing to have lost 400,000 in a five-month period at casinos. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/c/chelsea/2650331.stm After the arrival of Abramovich as the owner of Chelsea FC, tons of players was bought in to the team, there were some concern that he might not be able to force a place in the team. But two years down, he is still one of the key player at the club. Note 1 His family does not follow the traditional naming conventions of Iceland. Some Icelanders are allowed to use inherited family names instead of the standard of given name(s) and patronymic. See demographics of Iceland for more information on this issue. External links Gujohnsen, Eiur Gujohnsen, Eiur
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