Ólafur Gottskálksson

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Personal information
Ólafur Gottskálksson
Full name	Ólafur Gottskálksson
Date of birth	March 12, 1968 (1968-03-12) (age 40)
Place of birth	Keflavík, Iceland
Height	6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Playing position	goalkeeper
Club information
Current club	retired
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1988-1990 1990-1994 1994-1997 1997-2000 2000-2002 2003-2004 2004 2004-2005	IA Akranes KR Reykjavík Keflavik ÍF Hibernian Brentford Grindavik Keflavik ÍF Torquay Career totals	33 (0) 71 (0) 63 (0) 64 (0) 73 (0) 10 (0) 11 (0) 15 (0) 340 (0)
National team²
-1997	Iceland	9 (0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 11 September 2007. ² National team caps and goals correct as of 01 May 2007. * Appearances (Goals)

Ólafur "Ole" Gottskálksson (born March 12, 1968 in Keflavík) is a retired Icelandic professional football goalkeeper.

1 Club career
2 International career
3 See also
4 References

[edit] Club career

Ole Gottskálksson played for IA Akranes and KR Reykjavík before joining Scottish side Hibernian from Keflavik ÍF in July 1997 for a fee of £200,000. He played 70 times for Hibs before joining Brentford on a free transfer in May 2000. He played 73 league games for Brentford, at one point having to pay for his own goalkeeping coach, before returning to Iceland to play for Grindavik.

On his return to the UK he played for non-league side Margate before joining Torquay United in September 2004 as a replacement for the departing Arjan van Heusden. He played 15 league games for Torquay before disappearing.

According to Torquay chairman Michael Bateson as quoted by Tom Adams in the Skysports website, doping testers arrived at Plainmoor in January 2005 for routine testing and Gottskálksson was chosen to give a sample. On viewing the list of banned substances he fled Torquay, leaving his girlfriend behind without an explanation. In June 2005, the English Football Association announced that an independent disciplinary commission had banned Gottskálksson from football indefinitely for failing to take that drugs test^[1].