Football is war. So if one of Iceland’s perfect eleven should accidentally lose a leg or a head (other than

Aron Einar Gunnarsson is, to many, the face of Icelandic football. The talismanic captain of the national team, he’s an

The World Cup is here! The horde are camped out in a Russian forest practicing their long throws, shield walls

Icelanders are afraid of two things at some stage of their lives. First, it’s Grýla—the baby-eating mother of the Yule

After Euro 2016, an Instagram post by the team captain Aron Einar Gunnarsson got over 10,000 likes. It was a

Iceland’s World Cup run has drawn a lot of attention from the media, the worldwide football punditry, and international supporters

As you may have noted if you’ve been following our Meet The Smiters series, Hannes “Wild Claws” Halldórsson—Iceland’s number one

Before Iceland boarded the longship to Russia, we went deep into the lava fields outside of Reykjavík to the horde’s

The unfriendlies have been fought, the team photos snapped, the axes honed, and the longboats landed. Our boys are in

When you mention football to someone here in Iceland, you will receive one of two reactions. The first is of

There’s an unfair accusation in Europe that Americans don’t know anything about football. Actually, we freakin’ love football. Not only

Tonight at Reykjavík’s Laugardalsvöllur stadium, Ghana’s Black Stars were hauled down from the heavens and devoured by our boys in