death_date nationalcaps manageryears birth_date years death_place caps goals nationalyears name fullname birth_place nationalteam height totalcaps totalgoals nationalgoals clubs position managerclubs article_title
16 january 2012 22 2005 2008 -- 2011 25 june 1968 1986 1999 -- 2000 2004 -- 1987 1988 -- 1998 1999 -- 2003 reykjavík , iceland 5 164 72 8 8 0 17 1 0 0 1993 -- 1999 sigursteinn gíslason sigursteinn davíð gíslason akranes , iceland iceland 1.75 257 18 0 kr víkingur r. Ía kr → stoke city -lrb- loan -rrb- defender , midfielder kr -lrb- caretaker -rrb- leiknir reykjavík sigursteinn gíslason

sigursteinn gíslason

sigursteinn davíð gíslason -lrb- 25 june 1968 -- 16 january 2012 -rrb- was an icelandic football player and manager .
a left-sided defender who could also play in midfield , he spent the majority of his playing career in his home country ; he started his career with kr and later had spells with Ía and víkingur reykjavík .
during the 1999 -- 2000 season , sigursteinn joined english club stoke city and played eight matches in the football league .
following his retirement from playing , he became a coach at his former club kr and went on to spend three years as the club 's assistant manager .
in 2008 , sigursteinn was appointed as manager of leiknir reykjavík , a position he held for more than two seasons before being forced to retire through illness .
