Birkir Bjarnason

Birkir Bjarnason is, to me, a perfect emblem of Iceland's footballing fairy tale. A nation of barely 350,000 people produced this central midfielder from Akureyri who became their most-capped player ever, and I still think of him grinding through that famous Euro 2016 run that knocked out England. There's something I genuinely admire about a small-country professional whose whole story is consistency and stamina rather than superstardom. He never needed to be a global name; being the spine of an overachieving national team across more than a decade is its own kind of greatness, and Iceland clearly knows it.

Name (English)

Birkir Bjarnason

Name (Japanese)

ビルキル・ビャルナソン

Reading

びるきる・びゃるなそん

Born

May 27, 1988 (age 38)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Dragon

Origin

Akureyri, Iceland

Height

184 cm

Occupation

association football player

Motto

Private

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/birkirbjarnason/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%93%E3%83%AB%E3%82%AD%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%93%E3%83%A3%E3%83%AB%E3%83%8A%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3

Tags

• association football player

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.