Kjartan Henry Finnbogason famously known as Kjartan Finnbogason is a professional football player who plays a striker for Iceland nation team and the Danish professional football club, AC Horsens from 2014 wearing no 9 on his back.
Apart from playing for several European football clubs across the world, he has also represented Iceland in the international level since 2011.
Kjartan Finnbogason was born to Icelandic parents on 9 July 1986 on Reykjavík, Iceland and is of Icelandic nationality having a European heritage.
He was fond of playing football since his early childhood days and played in several local Icelandic football clubs to start his playing career.
His annual salary is estimated to be above € 200,000 and has a weekly salary around € 4000 playing for his current club, AC Horsens. He has a market value in the region of € 350,000.
As his exact net worth is not officially revealed, his property along with endorsing several sports products could be assumed to be over $ 500,000.
The Icelandic striker started his senior and professional playing football career when he joined the oldest and famous Iceland football club, KR Reykjavik in 2003 and later signed with Scottish Premier League club Celtic FC in their youth ranks in 2005.
He mostly for the second or reserve team of Celtic and in spite of an impressive performance for the side was not taken into the main team of Celtic.
Kjartan left the club due to fewer opportunities to play for the senior team and with the management as well as the coach. While playing for the reserve team, he was loaned to the Scottish club, Queen’s Park FC and Swedish club, Atvidabergs FF.
After several trials with clubs like Bristol, Skonto FC and FK Zalgiris Vilnius , he signed with the Norwegian football club, Sandefjord in 2008 and was transfer on a six month loan deal to Scottish football club, Falkirk in August 2009 and scored his first goal for Falkirk against Dundee United on 29 August in his first game.
He signed a permanent contract deal with his former Iceland football club, KR Reykjavik for two years in 2010 and made history for the club as he becomes the highest goalscorer for Reykjavik in the UEFA Cup in 2011.
Kjartan Finnbogason is currently signed with Danish Superliga club, AC Horsens with whom the striker signed in 2014.
After playing his debut for Iceland national football team in 2011 he scored his first international goal for Iceland against China in a friendly match on 10 January 2017.
He alongside Kari Arnason, Birkir Bjarnason, and Hjortur Hermannsson has been recently called up by Iceland squad and is expected to play for Iceland in the FIFA World Cup 2018 which is being held at Russia.
Kjartan Finnbogason so far has played in 9 matches for Iceland and scored 2 goals for the team in the international football arena.
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Kjartan Finnbogason, currently 31, has a towering height of 6 feet and 3 inches and weighs about 83 kg. He is happily married to Helga Bjornsdottir who is a lawyer by profession on Jan 6, 2018, at Reykjavík after dating for several years.
He is blessed with two children a son and a daughter. The couple had their first child; a daughter named Margrét Kjartansdóttir on November 6, 2010. His second child; a son named Finnbogi Kjartansson was born in August 2016.
