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The Real Thing: Icelandic Football News From The Pepsi League
Ah, Pepsi. It’s not quite The Real Thing, but it’s everywhere anyway. Some people inexplicably prefer it to Coke, but we don’t understand those people. And so it is with the top division of Icelandic football, the “Pepsi-deildin,” or “Pepsi League.” While…
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The Smiters Reawaken: Our Girls To Shatter German Psyche, “Horror Hooves” Provokes Limb Frenzy & More
The football – and thereby the smiting – is returning to European shores, but the times they are a-changin’. Coach Heimir has left his post, Aron “The Annihilator” Gunnarsson is playing Premier League football for the first time in four years and…
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Stelpurnar Okkar: Iceland’s National Women’s Football Team On Way To The World Cup
After the extensive reporting on Strákarnir Okkar’s (“Our Boys”) journey to the World Cup, it’s high time we focus on the Icelandic Valkyries. The women’s national football team is fighting its way through a tough qualifying round and hopefully into the World…
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Update: Heimir Not Leaving For Basel After All
Update : Swiss media outlet Blick just reported that despite all the rumours on Heimir Hallgrímsson joining the Swiss football club FC Basel as new coach, Marcel Koller, former coach of the Austrian national team, will take over. Read our original article here: Swiss…
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The Beautiful Game: Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson’s ‘Last Call’ Explores The Icelandic Psyche Through Football
“Good evening and welcome to the big stage,” an announcer declares boisterously over the growing roar of a crowd. “We are making history and what a story it is.” Onscreen, a lone worker pushes a striper along the brown grass of the…
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#SmiteTheWorld Daily: Gylfi Fit, Berg Out, Iranian Throws, Beer Woes, Nigeria Leaks, & More
The big day is here! Iceland will today charge once more into battle, this time in the fly-infested quicksand of the slowly sinking Volgograd Stadium. Their opponents? Nigeria, who dramatically flopped against Croatia in their first game, turning in a limp and…
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#SmiteTheWorld Interview: Aron Gunnarsson Leads Iceland Into The World Cup
Aron Einar Gunnarsson is, to many, the face of Icelandic football. The talismanic captain of the national team, he’s an imposing presence on the field; a bearded, tattooed midfielder with a hard-tackling style that Cristiano Ronaldo probably still remembers. His impact on…
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Meet The Smiters: Alfreð “Arctic Fox In The Box” Finnbogason
Alfreð Finnbogason is strákarnir okkar’s “Arctic Fox in the Box,” whose cunning spearheads Heimir Hallgrímsson’s side. Alfreð is always lurking in the danger zone, and pounced three times in eight qualification games, a scoring record only bested by talisman Gylfi Sigurðsson. Feared…
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Meet The Smiters: Emil “The Emilinator” Hallfreðsson
Part-man, part-glacier, Emil “The Emilinator” Hallfreðsson is so strong that Hafþór Júlíus “The Mountain” Björnsson addresses him as “Master.” This belittling term of endearment owes to a childhood encounter at a summer football camp in Reykjavík, when Emil body-slammed Hafþór to the…
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7000km Offside: Iraqi Asylum Seeker Referees Icelandic Football Matches
Twana Khaled, a 28-year-old former Iraqi Premier League referee, is now stewarding matches in Iceland while his appeal to a rejected asylum application is being processed. After discussing his career history and aspirations with family doctor, Tekla Petursdóttir, who also liaises with…
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#SmiteTheWorld: Iceland’s World Cup Winning Destiny Inches Ever Closer
As the Icelandic national men and women’s football teams continue to smite the entire world within an inch of its quivering life, we once again decided to turn to the omens, witches, entrails, the Grapevine Magic 8-Ball, Google—and, ahem, press releases—for a…
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Pro Evolution Soccer Turns Icelandic National Team Into Creeps
As we reported last week, the Icelandic football national team will be included in the upcoming FIFA 18 game. Then it was announced that the team will also be featured in the new Pro Evolution Soccer game (Hurrah!). We at the Grapevine…
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Let The Smiting Commence: France You Are Next!
Tonight, the Icelandic female national team will take on France in their first match at the 2017 Euros in the Netherlands. What a day, what a lovely day. So, we might have played them 9 times and we might have allowed them…
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Words of Interest: Áfram Ísland!
The Icelandic football team has been front and centre of every sports section lately for their record-setting feat in the Euro Cup. An estimated 20,000 Icelanders are registered in football clubs, making it the most popular sport in the country. But before…
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ICELAND PREPARE TO SMITE AND DECIMATE HUNGARY AT EURO 2016
After their heroic 1-1 victory against the flouncing, melodramatic demimonde Cristiano Ronaldo’s Portugal, Iceland’s heroic eleven left the famous prima donna throwing a hissyfit before the raised eyebrow of the worldwide media. After showering briefly in the flood of #RonaldoTears, they now…
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Wow! Iceland Qualifies For Euro 2016! ‘Success Is No Fluke’ Say Footie Veterans
Yes! With a goalless draw against Kazakhstan earlier tonight, the Icelandic men’s national football team made history, qualifying for the 2016 UEFA European Championship. Yup, the dudes are going Euro – for the first time ever (note, as some of our readers…