Background
He is also the son of former football player and now manager Guðjón Þórðarson.
He is also the son of former football player and now manager Guðjón Þórðarson.
He has played in Belgium, England and Germany and has two brothers who have also played professional football, Þórður and Jóhannes. All three played together at. Bjarni Guðjónsson began his career at his hometown club ÍA, before moving to English club Newcastle United in 1997 for £500,000.
He failed to break into the first team at the club and left a year later for Belgian club before returning to England in 2000 with in a £250,000 signing joining up with his father Guðjón Þórðarson who was manager.
He became a regular in the first team and made 53 appearances in the 2000-2001 season however he was transfer listed at the end of the season as his father felt Bjarni Guðjónsson was struggling to deal with being the son of the manager. Number transfer away from the club was forthcoming and Bjarni Guðjónsson stayed for the 2001-2002 season and this time played 54 matches as Stoke gained promotion via the play-offs.
Despite gaining promotion his father was sacked by the board. He struggled to cement a place in the first team at Bochum and was loaned out to Coventry City in 2004 where he excelled under the management of Eric Black.
Coventry signed him on a free later that year however he struggled for game time under new manager Peter Reid and eventually fell out of favour.
In his second spell at ÍA he stayed for two years, until he was sold to KR in 2008. He made his debut for Iceland as a substitute for Helgi Sigurðsson in a friendly match against Slovakia in April 1997 and has been capped 19 more times since, scoring once against Liechtenstein in a World Cup qualifier in 1997, as well as captaining his side in a 2008 fixture.
