Career
Árni is also an educated lawyer from the University of Iceland. He played for Rosenborg between January 1998 and December 2003, also making several Union of European Football Associations Champions League appearances for the club In the first of these, against Tottenham at White Hart Lane, City found themselves 3-0 down at half time after an abject first half performance, and down to 10 men after Joey Barton had been sent off at the half time whistle.
Christian Ziege had already beaten Árni from a similar distance in the first half, but this time Árni produced a stunning one handed tip onto the crossbar from a full stretch dive to his left, Gus Poyet could have headed the rebound into an open Netto, but Árni scrambled back to his right to save this effort too.
He subsequently went on to join in 2004. On 30 November 2007, Árni"s contract expired and he left.
In March 2008 he joined South African club Thanda Royal Zulu on a short contract, before moving back to Norway joining Odd Grenland in the summer the same year. Árni retired in May 2012 after an operation on his elbow did not produce the results wanted.
Árni was a good and stable keeper who played a lot of Norwegian Premier League football, and was one of the Norwegian Premier League"s best goalkeepers in the 2000s.
He made his debut in an August 1998 friendly match against Latvia and was a regular for the Icelandic national team, earning in total 71 international caps. He did not feature in competitive matches for the national team after leaving Norwegian club in 2007, his last seven matches were all friendlies, with the last match being a 1-1 home draw against Liechtenstein in August 2010. Club Individual.
