Sigursteinn Gíslason

Personal life and death Sigursteinn was born in Akranes, on the west coast of Iceland, on 25 June 1968. He was the only child of Margrét Teitsdóttir and Gísli Víglundsson, although he also had four half-siblings. Another daughter, Sóley, was born in 1997 but died in infancy. A crowd of almost 4,000 spectators watched the 2–2 draw, the fourth highest ever attendance at the Akranesvöllur, the home ground of ÍA.

On 16 January 2012, eight months after being diagnosed with cancer, Sigursteinn died at the National University Hospital in Reykjavík at the age of 43. His funeral took place at the Hallgrímskirkja, the largest church in Iceland, on 26 January 2012. Sigursteinn's manager during his second spell with KR, Willum Þór Þórsson, paid tribute to his positive attitude as a player and praised his leadership abilities, while his former ÍA and Iceland team-mate Ólafur Adolfsson described him as a popular man who always put the interests of the team above his own.

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