Ólafur Gottskálksson

Ólafur Gottskálksson, born on 12 March 1968 in Keflavík, is a retired Icelandic goalkeeper who played professional football and also basketball. In football he played for IA Akranes, KR Reykjavík and Keflavík before joining the Scottish club Hibernian in July 1997 for a fee of 200,000 pounds, making 70 appearances there. He moved to Brentford on a free transfer in May 2000, played 73 league games, and was forced to retire in November 2002 by a shoulder injury, then returned to Iceland with Grindavík and later played briefly in England for Margate and Torquay United. He won 10 caps for the Iceland national team, the last in February 1998. In 2005 the English Football Association banned him indefinitely for failing to take a drugs test. He also played seven seasons of basketball in the Icelandic top division, averaging 5.5 points a game and winning the Icelandic Basketball Cup in 1994. His father Gottskálk and his brother Elvar were also goalkeepers.