The team of Iceland falls. Destined to be the
"David" of Euro from its historic qualification to the tournament,
the Viking combined has won the hearts of friends and strangers and Sunday
faces a new "Goliath": the France team, which will look to his fans
avoid surprises and suffered humiliation as the English.
Led by coaches Lars Lagerback and Heimir Hallgrímsson,
the latter works as a dentist at a clinic when he is not coaching the national
team, Iceland is the selection with smaller populations in the competition and
the players devote their free time to other activities, as the case Jón Dadi
Böðvarsson, during the winter works at a gas station, or Birkir Bjarnason,
which when not training and kicking a ball, help the family farm.
The difference on paper is abysmal, as well as their
respective populations (France: 66.3 million Iceland: 330,000) and the fact
that the "Tom Thumb" Europe does not have a professional league. So
it has been to rivals and so was against England, which ended up handing him
his most painful defeat.
With each passing game, the history of this vikinga
selection is enlarged and could write another chapter.
Iceland has nothing to lose and will be presented Sunday
at the Stade de France with the comfort of having done a great job in the
tournament and the admiration of all selections, hobbies, players and coaches.
Almost nobody has been able to resist the Icelandic feat whole, which can still
increase their exploits with a win against the host.
"The Vikings", accompanied by his thousands of
followers in the Paris stadium, have their 23 players ready to jump into the
field. All are well physically and if there are no surprises, his two coaches
aligned to the same starting eleven players who played from the start in the
four games he has played so far.
