Arnar Darri Pétursson (born 16 March 1991) is an Icelandic professional

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who plays as a

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for

Stjarnan Ungmennafélagið Stjarnan (, ), commonly known as Stjarnan (), is an Icelandic multi-sports club specialising in handball, football, basketball, volleyball and gymnastics located in Garðabær. Basketball Men's basketball As of the 2017–2 ...

. He started his career with Stjarnan, and joined

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-based club

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in March 2008. When Lyn had financial problems in summer 2010 he was signed by

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of the

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. He made his international U21 debut against Scotland in the fall of 2010 when Iceland met Scotland in playoffs to reach the EM U21 Finals in Denmark 2011. Iceland won both games 2–1 and qualified.

Club career

Stjarnan

Arnar played a first team game for

but played with all their youth teams.

Lyn

At the time Arnar moved to

they had among others Indridi Sigurdsson, Theodor Elmar Bjarnason and more quality players. He made his

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debut for Lyn on 3 August 2009 against

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. In the end Lyn had to sell all their best players and was in the summer of 2010 declared bankrupt. It was demoted to the Norwegian lower leagues as an amateur club. With Lyn Arnar played 15 games, five of them in the

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SønderjyskE

On 1 July 2010, Arnar signed for

club

, which is located near the German border, to compete with their existing number one goalkeeper Nathan Coe. He signed for two years.

References

External links

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on

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