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The Smiting Never Ends: Women’s World Cup, Aron & Hannes Contracts & More
After a fascinating World Cup tournament reached its finale, the Icelandic men’s team are regrouping for some coming tournaments, while the women’s team storms past a much-fancied Germany side to potentially top their group for the Women’s World Cup. Here’s all the…
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#SmiteTheWorld Daily: Gylfi Out?, Bank Closes For #NGA Game, Dodgy Ads, & More
It’s three days until the Nigeria game, and the horde have taken some time of for relaxation, treatment and preparation as the world looks on. Here’s what’s going down at Camp Smite. Gylfi misses training ahead of Nigeria match After Jóhann Berg…
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Iceland Pre-Game Press Conference Reveals Captain Aron Set To Start
Well, well well. Following today’s press conference it seems almost certain that Aron Gunnarsson will be leading our boys out at the Spartak Stadium against Lionel Messi’s Argentina. Coach Heimir more or less said so in his opening monologue, asserting that “all…
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#SmiteTheWorld: Iceland’s Road To Russia—A Smite News Recap
Iceland’s World Cup qualification campaign came to a dramatic head in October of 2017, when they beat Kosovo to become the least populous nation ever to qualify for the finals. The months ahead would prove to be an eventful journey, with pre-tournament…
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The World Cup’s Group D Is The Group Of Death… For Everyone Else
When Iceland was pulled in Group D of the World Cup alongside Argentina, Nigeria and previous-smited weaklings Croatia, many called it the Group of Death. They’re right, it is… for everyone else. Here’s some opposition research on the first three teams Iceland…
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#SmiteTheWorld: We Will Smite Them On The Beaches – Football News
With gangs training for all-out brawls in the forests of Russia, the injury curses flying thick and fast, and clubs around the world trying to sign our in-demand warriors, here’s the latest pre-World Cup news from the Icelandic camp, and beyond. Iceland…
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Why Is Iceland So Good At Football, With Such A Small Population?
The Icelandic national men’s football’s progress into Euro 2016, and now the World Cup 2018, has left the world’s media baffled. “Why is Iceland, a team from a country the size of [insert small local town here], so good at football?” has become…
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#SmiteTheWorld: Now That’s What I Call Smiting Edition
As the old Icelandic proverbs go: “smite waits for no man” and “the smiting horde gathers no volcanic moss.” With this in mind, the Icelandic men’s national football team continued to warm up for their inevitable World Cup win this year by…
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#SmiteTheWorld: Iceland Rout Indonesia 6-0 Amidst Apocalyptic Downpour
The Icelandic men’s national football team inflicted a mighty thrashing on Indonesia’s select XI today in a “friendly” pre-World Cup run out. On a flooded pitch in Yogykarta, the goals rained in as thick and fast as the downpour, with Iceland netting…
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#SmiteTheWorld: Men’s National Football Team Invades Indonesia
Iceland’s raging, monstrous army of murderous footballing warlords will decimate Indonesia this week in a daring raid on the 286m-strong nation. The two “friendlies” will be played against the Indonesian national team, and a “best XI selection.” It is rumoured that the…
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Match Review: Now THAT’S What I Call Smiting—Iceland Go Through
So: one full day after Iceland’s dramatic, nerve-wracking, mind-blowing, last-gasp victory against the bravely battling Austrian side yesterday, our hands have finally stopped shaking for long enough to write a recap. Here’s our blow-by-blow account of what went down. The tone was…
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ICELAND SMITE HUNGARY, SCORING TWICE IN 2-0 DRAW
Iceland’s second game on the road to their certain victory at Euro 2016 was, of course, another dramatic battle, this time against the spirited Magyar of Hungary. Despite Hungary having a venerable history in international football, the Icelandic longships sailed on Marseille…
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Don’t Ask Nanna About Euro 2016
@elqqazz As #EURO2016 correspondent @brainlove might say, He shall bathe in free ancestral mead long after Valkyries carry him to Valhalla — Nanna Árnadóttir (@NannaArnadottir) June 17, 2016 Hey Nanna, Happy Independence Day, though can I just say, as colonial rulers go,…