“It must be hard to lose against the smallest nation that has ever taken part in a championship”, North Sailing quipped on their Facebook page Monday, “but to look on the bright side, they just won 23 tickets to go whale watching in attractive Húsavík”.
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“We’ve been improving slowly and, in my opinion. this was our best game yet but we still haven’t shown what we can do”, said Hallgrimsson.
“We follow the underdogs in this tournament, whoever they are”, he said. I’m playing against my former team-mates in an worldwide game, but more importantly I’m playing England in a last-16 game. “I think it’s fantastic for the tournament that Iceland are still in it, another team like I say that was probably written off before the start of the tournament”. However, it was the Icelandics that played to their game and broke England on the counter-attack at all times.
Tournament first timers Iceland beat England in the knockout stage of Euro 2016 by 2-1 to enter quarterfinals.
The man who may best represent the incredulity of the team’s success is announcer Gudmundur Benediktsson, whose reaction to Iceland’s victory over Austria last week went viral.
Just days after the European Union referendum results sent shock waves through the country, football fans are having to come to terms with the fact that England have lost their place in the Euro 2016 tournament.
While nearly all the English fans had their hands on their heads, civil servants Nakiran Rajandran and Vineeth Naki celebrated when Iceland scored their two goals.
“Obviously we’re delighted to be here and we don’t care”.
“A part of why I am sitting here now is thanks to Bob Houghton (the Englishman who coached Malmo to the 1979 European Cup final) and Roy Hodgson when they came to Sweden, so I’d like to express my big respect to them”, he said.
“They wanted to finish us as soon as possible”. “We felt we had it under control the whole game”. We go through a lot of different situations in training and then add our video analysis. It’s a big boost for the game on Friday after how he was looking in the game on Saturday.
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“We will take it each game as it comes – they are very competent and are playing beyond what anybody expected of them so good on them”.
