Ívar Ingimarsson

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Ívar Ingimarsson
Personal information
Date of birth	August 20, 1977 (age 29)
Place of birth	Reykjavík, Iceland
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Playing position	Defender
Club information
Current club	Reading
Number	16
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1996–1999 1999 1999 1999–2002 2002–2003 2003 2003–	Valur ÍBV → Torquay Utd (loan) Brentford Wolves → Brighton (loan) Reading	045 0(5) 035 0(5) 004 0(1) 113 (10) 013 0(2) 015 0(0) 145 0(8)
National team2
2002–	Iceland	018 0(0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 16:39, 30 March 2007 (UTC). 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 12:25, 18 October 2006 (UTC). * Appearances (Goals)

Ívar Ingimarsson (born 20 August 1977 in Reykjavík, Iceland), is a professional footballer currently playing for Reading in central defence.

Contents 1 Club career 1.1 Early years 1.2 Reading 2 International career 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Club career

[edit] Early years

Ingimarsson began his career with his local side Valur Reykjavík, making 45 league appearances and scoring 5 goals. In August 1998, he signed for fellow Icelandic side ÍBV Vestmann, making a further 35 appearances in the Icelandic league, and scoring 5 goals.

Ingimarsson joined Torquay United on loan from IBV in October 1999, scoring on his debut in a 2-1 victory at league leaders Barnet on 23 October 1999. Rumours were rife that a deal had already been done to take Ingimarsson elsewhere at the end of his loan spell, and, after four league games for the Gulls, he duly signed for Brentford in November 1999 for £200,000, confirming the fears of Torquay fans that he would never be a permanent fixture at Plainmoor.

While at Brentford, the band The Bluetones named one of their instrumental B-sides Ingimarsson in his honour; Adam Devlin, the guitarist, being a Bees fan. He was released by Brentford in June 2002, the Bees unable to pay his wages. He signed for Wolverhampton Wanderers the following month, but was unable to establish himself at Molineux, resulting in a loan spell with Brighton & Hove Albion in February 2003.

[edit] Reading

In October 2003, Ingimarsson was linked with a move to Crystal Palace, but snubbed them in favour of a move to Reading, whom he joined in a £175,000 deal on 23 October 2003 as Steve Coppell's first signing as Reading manager.^[1]

At Reading, he holds a key place in the first team playing alongside Ibrahima Sonko. Together they formed the best defence in the English Football League. On occasions he comes up with the odd goal and has proved vital in some games. He helped Reading to promotion to the Premiership in 2006 and played in Reading's first ever game in the top flight of English League football, a 3-2 win at home against Middlesbrough on 19 August 2006. On 13 November 2006, Ingimarsson signed a contract extension to keep him at Reading until June 2009.^[2]

[edit] International career

He is a capped Icelandic international but opted to retire from international football because of arguments with the former manager, although since the arrival of the new Iceland manager, he has again become available.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Ívar Ingimarsson profile at readingfc.co.uk
• Ívar Ingimarsson 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 | 47 Máté | –– Andersen | –– Bozanic | Manager: Coppell

Persondata
NAME	Ívar Ingimarsson
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Footballer
DATE OF BIRTH	20 August 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH	Reykjavík, Iceland
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH